Episode

Defrag Tools: #6 - RAMMap

Defrag Tools

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew and I walk you through Sysinternals RAMMap. RAMMap allows you to see how the Physical Memory (RAM) on the computer is being used. You can see how much RAM there is, for what purpose it is being used, and if there has been any memory pressure (not enough memory). We also cover a lot of Memory Management theory to understand the data in RAMMap.

Resources: Sysinternals RAMMap

Timeline:
[01:00] - 'Mysteries of Memory Management Revealed' talk [01:40] - The brick wall analogy
[05:35] - Page Faults
[06:32] - 'Use Counts' tab
[07:40] - Memory Lists - state transition explanation
[13:37] - 'Use Counts' tab... continued
[16:33] - Paged and Nonpaged Pool
[19:00] - Driver Locked
[21:40] - 'Processes' tab... inc. Zombie Processes
[24:00] - 'Priority Summary' tab... inc. Memory Pressure
[26:56] - 'Physical Pages' tab
[28:00] - 'Physical Ranges' tab
[28:38] - 'File Summary' tab
[29:36] - 'File Details' tab
[30:20] - 'Empty' menu... inc. Performance Analysis
[31:33] - Sysinternals Administrator's Reference [Amazon]
[32:05] - Next time...VMMap