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Why don't Windows users have confusion over this issue? Windows' Task Manager has generally counted memory occupied by the disk cache as "available."
by Lagged2Death 13y ago
Why don't Windows users have confusion over this issue?
Windows' Task Manager has generally counted memory occupied by the disk cache as "available."
- tanzam75 13y ago> Windows' Task Manager has generally counted memory occupied by the disk cache as "available." Windows Vista got lots of complaints about memory usage, because Task Manager listed memory as Total, Cached, and Free. People saw that "Free" was close to 0, and complained that Windows Vista ate all their RAM. Windows 7 changed this to: Total, Cached, Available, and Free. People saw that they had a lot of "Available" memory, so they didn't panic. Well, most of them didn't panic. Windows 8 removed the "Free" line entirely, and now lists memory as: Total, Available, and Cached. If you care about the actual amount of free memory, you can run Resource Monitor or Process Explorer.