I’m hoping someone who can think outside-the-box can think of a more graceful cure for me instead of me having to use brutally empty the entire standby list regularly and, hopefully have a definitive explanation to the symptom me (and other people) are seeing. I also saw a couple of utilities which set the “min/max NT cache limits” but those look like they’re specific to Working sets for processes, not standby lists. Also, the Win7/Win2008 R2 version of it seems to be only available via MS support. I’ve seen mentions of a MS utility/service called “Dynamic Cache” but not sure if it cures specifically what I want. However, most of their questions go unanswered with no real explanation to why this happens and, no definitive way to fix the issue other than the “Empty standby list” technique. While searching on Google, I’ve found other people who have almost the same exact issue as me. However, unfortunately it also purges smaller items in the standby list that are very useful for performance purposes to stay in the standby list. I have a command-line utility, EmptyStandbyList.exe, which I found that quietly purges the standby list instead of having to do that in RamMap’s GUI. In fact, the PC will never recover from this sluggishness unless I empty the standby list or reboot. There is nothing else I can do to address sluggishness. If I select “Empty standby list” in RamMap, my PC immediately becomes extremely responsive as if I just rebooted it. However, when using RamMap, I can see that these large mpeg2 files become mapped files in the active standby list which over time make my PC very sluggish. Even if I close all active processes, the PC remains sluggish.

Depending on how busy my PC is recordings TV shows, after 1-3 days, my PC becomes sluggish.īy just looking at Windows Task Manager, it appears that I don’t have very many large applications open and, plenty of “available memory”. It has a bunch of TV tuners which record/write several simultaneous gigantic mpeg2 files (at least 3-8GBs each) to a HDD 24/7. I have a Win7 64bit (8Gb RAM) PC which acts as a server. However, there are relatively few documents that describe real-world performance issues (sluggishness) related to very large/growing mapped files and standby lists. Many people are educated on how Windows Memory manager caching works by reading Microsoft white papers, etc.