Wasn't there fiasco involving one prominent magazine for PC machines, where the author claimed that Vista was using all of the memory, while that memory in fact was cached.
But when in doubt, what happens with your cache on XP, Vista or Windows7 just use Mark Russinovich's RamMap. For example it helped me realize that NTFS compressed files, although compressed on disk would end up using the same amount of cache (memory). For that reason, it's probably better to store files compressed, rather than relying on NTFS.
But when in doubt, what happens with your cache on XP, Vista or Windows7 just use Mark Russinovich's RamMap. For example it helped me realize that NTFS compressed files, although compressed on disk would end up using the same amount of cache (memory). For that reason, it's probably better to store files compressed, rather than relying on NTFS.
http://www.google.com/search?q=rammap