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Cacheman 4.1 released - Win9x/ME users should try this!
If you're edtiting without Cachceman optimizations you really should consider it.
Cachemans main function is to reign in the Windows VCACHE. This "feature" was implemented back when drives had only very small caches. That is no longer the case, but still VCACHE remains in Win9x and ME.
This wouldn't be so bad if VCACHE behaved properly. It doesn't. It allocates much of the systems free physical RAM at bootup, forcing most software to run off the swapfile. Not only that, but VCACHE is very reluctant to give that memory back to the system. Not good for physical RAM hungry editing proggies, Photoshop etc.
On my 512 meg system the VCACHE ate over 375 megs at bootup. This resulted in the system having only 13 megs free RAM with just Outlook Express running.
The more disk activity there was the larger the VCACHE became. Neeless to say the system was running amost entirely from the swapfile.
After applying the Cacheman Multimedia preset and running Outlook Express the free RAM upped to 411 megs and the VCACHE now allocates 26 megs with a 0k swapfile (!).
With Premiere running and a 1 hour RT-2000 project loaded the free physical RAM was still 321 megs!
Cacheman will also optionally unload unused DLL's and set up conservative swapfile usage. This is how I have the RT-2000 set up under Win98SE.
Cacheman's home: http://www.outertech.com/
'tis freeware.
Dr. Mordrid
[This message has been edited by Dr Mordrid (edited 25 March 2001).]
Cachemans main function is to reign in the Windows VCACHE. This "feature" was implemented back when drives had only very small caches. That is no longer the case, but still VCACHE remains in Win9x and ME.
This wouldn't be so bad if VCACHE behaved properly. It doesn't. It allocates much of the systems free physical RAM at bootup, forcing most software to run off the swapfile. Not only that, but VCACHE is very reluctant to give that memory back to the system. Not good for physical RAM hungry editing proggies, Photoshop etc.
On my 512 meg system the VCACHE ate over 375 megs at bootup. This resulted in the system having only 13 megs free RAM with just Outlook Express running.
The more disk activity there was the larger the VCACHE became. Neeless to say the system was running amost entirely from the swapfile.
After applying the Cacheman Multimedia preset and running Outlook Express the free RAM upped to 411 megs and the VCACHE now allocates 26 megs with a 0k swapfile (!).
With Premiere running and a 1 hour RT-2000 project loaded the free physical RAM was still 321 megs!
Cacheman will also optionally unload unused DLL's and set up conservative swapfile usage. This is how I have the RT-2000 set up under Win98SE.
Cacheman's home: http://www.outertech.com/
'tis freeware.
Dr. Mordrid
[This message has been edited by Dr Mordrid (edited 25 March 2001).]
) other than change the vcache in a user-friendly manner. Of course, you can edit your system.ini to achieve ths same results.
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