Free up some RAM

Posted on May 22, 2009 09:34 pm
timexone
producer
Member Since: Dec 07, 2006

Hey fellas (and the occasional ladies that pop in and out)...

I was wondering if any of you use any programs to clear your ram out before recording/mixing. I run my dedicated machine pretty thin and always kill all unneccessary programs prior to working but my task manager shows 2 out of 4 gigs used with no real programs running. that cant be efficient. i havent noticed any real hangups except for a few songs I'm running 40+ tracks @ 24bit and averaging 4 effects per track. but if that ram can be freed, my theory is that maybe the little studders might get better when monitoring an intense project.

I am running Vista so i know it hogs up some ram in and of itself, but 2 gigs seems rather large...maybe I'm wrong?

I know back in the pre-XP days there were ram progs that would wipe out your ram except windows and other progs currently running, are there any that work on vista that someone would suggest?

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