Comments on: Flushing the Windows Disk Cache http://chadaustin.me/2009/04/flushing-disk-cache/ Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:02:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Charles Niel http://chadaustin.me/2009/04/flushing-disk-cache/comment-page-1/#comment-111768 Charles Niel Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:41:26 +0000 http://aegisknight.org/?p=1350#comment-111768 Dear Chad, I have a 2009 Gateway that came with Vista but I changed it to xp pro about a year ago. It has 4gb ram and 500 gb HD. All was fine but I'm into home recording and I notice that sometimes the computer would hiccup during either recording or playback. I downloaded and ran flushmem.exe thinking this would help. I also unloaded a lot of stuff from my start up folder. But now I cant run open office from Oracle even though the program is on my computer. It shows up in programs listing and windows explorer. Also I'm missing my windows msconfigin file. All programs downloaded run fine. Do you think I messed up my registry with this flushmem.exe? Any help possible? Thank you. Charlie Niel Dear Chad,
I have a 2009 Gateway that came with Vista but I changed it to xp pro about a year ago. It has 4gb ram and 500 gb HD. All was fine but I’m into home recording and I notice that sometimes the computer would hiccup during either recording or playback. I downloaded and ran flushmem.exe thinking this would help. I also unloaded a lot of stuff from my start up folder. But now I cant run open office from Oracle even though the program is on my computer. It shows up in programs listing and windows explorer. Also I’m missing my windows msconfigin file. All programs downloaded run fine. Do you think I messed up my registry with this flushmem.exe? Any help possible? Thank you. Charlie Niel

]]> By: Chad Austin http://chadaustin.me/2009/04/flushing-disk-cache/comment-page-1/#comment-97124 Chad Austin Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:05:37 +0000 http://aegisknight.org/?p=1350#comment-97124 Hi Raghu, I'm not sure, as flushmem flushes the cache by allocating as much memory as possible. Best of luck, Chad Hi Raghu,

I’m not sure, as flushmem flushes the cache by allocating as much memory as possible.

Best of luck,
Chad

]]> By: Raghu Krishnan http://chadaustin.me/2009/04/flushing-disk-cache/comment-page-1/#comment-97042 Raghu Krishnan Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:31:50 +0000 http://aegisknight.org/?p=1350#comment-97042 hi Chad, I was desperately looking for a tool to flush my system cache as it was causing a database server that i was using (Interbase) to become unresponsive on Windows 2003 Server. I landed upon your page and tried the flushmem.exe and it works great. Thanks for the same. The only question I have for you is, is there a way to prevent flushmem from consuming all of the CPU memory while it is running? Any help on the same will be very helpful. Thanks for the utility. hi Chad,

I was desperately looking for a tool to flush my system cache as it was causing a database server that i was using (Interbase) to become unresponsive on Windows 2003 Server. I landed upon your page and tried the flushmem.exe and it works great. Thanks for the same.
The only question I have for you is, is there a way to prevent flushmem from consuming all of the CPU memory while it is running? Any help on the same will be very helpful. Thanks for the utility.

]]> By: Chad Austin http://chadaustin.me/2009/04/flushing-disk-cache/comment-page-1/#comment-4665 Chad Austin Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:36:34 +0000 http://aegisknight.org/?p=1350#comment-4665 Thanks. Last night I would have used it, but today flushmem.exe suits my purposes better. (Consume.exe spews windows over my desktop and is intended more for testing programs in low-memory situations.) Thanks. Last night I would have used it, but today flushmem.exe suits my purposes better. (Consume.exe spews windows over my desktop and is intended more for testing programs in low-memory situations.)

]]> By: Timothy Fitz http://chadaustin.me/2009/04/flushing-disk-cache/comment-page-1/#comment-4664 Timothy Fitz Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:31:20 +0000 http://aegisknight.org/?p=1350#comment-4664 Consume.exe, bundled with the free "Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools" does this and more: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en Consume.exe, bundled with the free “Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools” does this and more: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en

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