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In an ideal world, you'd have more than enough memory for SuperFetch to go out and pull all of your regularly used pages into main memory so that all applications would load without waiting on your hard drive.

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Do keep in mind that you'll need to make sure your motherboard has proper BIOS support for 4GB and also make sure Vista 圆4 has driver support for all of your peripherals before committing to the move. Although we found that 2GB of memory is still quite passable under Vista, the new sweet spot if you happen to multitask a lot is 4GB - in no small part due to how well SuperFetch utilizes the additional memory. Honestly SuperFetch is the biggest reason, in our opinion, to move to the 圆4 version of Vista so you can use even more memory.

While it's very difficult to benchmark the impact of SuperFetch well, in our usage of Vista if you have enough memory it is a tremendous ally.

The end result is that SuperFetch is part of what makes Vista's memory requirements greater than XP's, but if you've got the memory to spare the payoff is huge. SuperFetch has a number of counters and data structures that have to be loaded into main memory to make this whole process work. This data contains both frequency and temporal history, so not only how often but when you run these applications will influence what SuperFetch does at any given time. Vista keeps track of what memory pages are frequently requested and what files they are tied to, and based on that data SuperFetch will populate as much free memory as it can with pages it believes you will need in the future. Any memory left over is fair game to be used by SuperFetch as a cache of frequently used pages. SuperFetch works like this: Vista will load anything it needs to load in memory first, and any applications you manually run will also be loaded into memory. The real world impact of SuperFetch is tremendous: the more memory you have, the more your frequently used applications will load very quickly. In other words if you run Photoshop a lot, SuperFetch will take notice and try to keep Photoshop.exe and its associated libraries in main memory so long as you don't need that memory for anything else.

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The Impact of SuperFetch on Vista Memory Usage and PerformanceĪs we've already explained, the premise behind SuperFetch is simple - it's an intelligent software mechanism that monitors frequently used pages and does its best to keep them in memory.

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