CachemanXP 1.0 was released alongside Cacheman 5.50, with the Windows XP improvements at its core. Legacy buffer cache management schemes for multimedia server are grounded at the assumption that the application sequentially accesses the multimedia file.
However, the Cache parameters were still far from perfect, and Cacheman introduced new components to deal with them. The cache manager can identify a cache-object held by a single vnode with specific names for each cache-object. It can make minor improvements to the name and file cache in 98/ME and you dont have to undo that. Cache management improved in Windows XP, and many of the old problems were fixed. Before uninstalling Cacheman have it set the minimum vcache to zero and the maximum to the total RAM on the computer unless you have more than 512Mb on a Win98/ME computer in that case set the maximum to 512Mb. But if Cacheman has set the vcache the entry is left in the system INI. If you uninstall ram management programs there isnt a problem. Cacheman has added RAM management features making it a double whammy. In addition to providing you the ability to control the minimum and maximum working set sizes, it also allows you to reset. Unlike CacheMan, CacheSet runs on all versions of NT and will work without modifications on new Service Pack releases. Limiting the vcache is another counterproductive exercise in Win98 and up. CacheSet is an applet that allows you to manipulate the working-set parameters of the system file cache. If Windows couldnt use the cache the RAM was available. Also RAM doesnt need to be conditioned.Ĭacheman took another approach to Win95 memory problems by limiting the vcache. Unlike CacheMan, CacheSet runs on all versions of NT. A useless and counterproductive exercise in Win98 and up. CacheSet is an applet which helps you manipulate the working-set parameters of the system file cache. You needed that in Win95 because it often didnt give the cache back when RAM was needed. At worst they can butt heads with programs with valid hard RAM calls. At best they just dump some cache which is counterproductive.
Their basic mode is to free RAM by making an artificial high priority RAM call. I agree with flavallee that memory management utilities are a vestige of Win95 and generally useless from Win98 on.