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From what I can tell, Windows does not show the disk cache allocation in Task Manager. So even though all the RAM is likely in use, that is hidden from the use
by chiph 13y ago
From what I can tell, Windows does not show the disk cache allocation in Task Manager. So even though all the RAM is likely in use, that is hidden from the user. You can probably see it in PerfMon, as that is less "typical user" oriented.
- rplnt 13y agoIt's not in the graph but it's there in the "Cached" field.
- tracker1 13y agoIn windows 7, take "available" and subtract "free", that's your cache usage. Windows Vista started using RAM very aggressively for caching, including pre-filling cache with frequently used pages (apps/data) from disk... ReadyBoost was basically an extension of this...