Windows 10: How to disable memory caching and the standby memory in Win 10

Hi,


I have been noticing that my laptop stutters and plain does the hour-glass thing on many occasions. I have been too busy to investigate until now. What I found is that practically all my memory appears to be permanently utilized and when I try to trace what process is using up the memory it cannot be determined. Eventually, I found out that Windows 10 itself is actually doing this via its memory caching and standby memory facilities. I am sure if you are running Win 10 on an up-to-date CPU and with loads of physical RAM these features work fine. But on an old i7 with 16Gb RAM it just makes things worse. Worse still, there does not appear to be any way to TURN THESE FEATURES OFF... this is so frustrating. RAMMap allows you empty some of these areas in memory - bit immediately after clearing the memory you can see it building up again. This is nothing more than a glorified memory leak.. worse still it is also hammering my CPU to perform the required compression operations and additional memory manipulations hence the drop in performance.


Would someone please tell me how to disable these features? Else, tell me how I can escalate this issue to the point where what I am asking for can be addressed in a future update of Windows 10.

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How to Disable memory caching/standby memory in windows 10?

Okay I know this is going to sound strange and I know Im going to get people that will tell me how I dont want to turn off standby memory.

SHUSH

yes I do. don't tell me I dont.

I have been having several stability and preformance problems related to standby memory slowly growing and taking up space during a usage session, noticeably impacting performance and causing response time lags and even stutters.

When my system is freshly booted up and the standby memory is hardly taking up any space on my ram at all, my system is lightning fast with no performance issues at all, but as the standby memory grows i start getting audio stuttering, video stuttering, and
even mouse response lag.

When I clear the standby memory that all goes away.

Please can anyone tell me how do I 100% turn off standby memory/memory caching in its entirety? Meaning yes there will be empty space in my RAM unless an application decides to fill it. meaning applications also dont have to wait for the standby memory to be
unloaded to replace the adress with its own memory. As far as I'm concerned at this point Standby memory in windows 10 is just a fancy kind of memory leak.

 

How to Disable memory caching/standby memory in windows 10?

Hello,

We understand that you are aware on how it works with the memory caching and the standby memory. However, the feature to completely turn off standby memory or memory caching is not yet available. To better assist you, we suggest that you post your query
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Releasing Standby memory

This is the first I have heard of any issues with Standby list memory causing issues outside of games.
I know there were a lot of reports around 1809 of games having issues where the standby list didn't release memory and games would stutter. There are a few programs that can clear up this issue. I have used both and they do work but I only used it for games, never noticed any issues in windows applications.
ISLC (Intelligent standby list cleaner) by Wagnarsoft and Processlasso by Bitsum can clear the standby list automatically.