Sunday, August 7, 2011

Speed up ur PC by Increasing the FileSystem Memory Cache Size

According to the Microsoft documentation:
Increasing physical memory does not always increase the amount of paged pool memory available to NTFS. Setting memoryusage to 2 raises the limit of paged pool memory. This might improve performance if your system is opening and closing many files in the same file set and is not already using large amounts of system memory for other applications or for cache memory. If your computer is already using large amounts of system memory for other applications or for cache memory, increasing the limit of NTFS paged and non-paged pool memory reduces the available pool memory for other processes. This might reduce overall system performance.


So try the following to increases ur system speed :

1)Command line

Open up an Administrator mode command prompt by right-clicking and choosing Run as Administrator, or type in cmd into the start menu search box and use Ctrl+Shift+Enter.



Type in the following command to increase the cache setting:

fsutil behavior set memoryusage 2

To check the current value, type in this command:

fsutil behavior query memoryusage

To change the setting back to the default, use this command:

fsutil behavior set memoryusage 1




2)Manual

Manual Registry Hack

You can also set this value by changing a registry parameter. Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then navigate down to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

Double-click on the NtfsMemoryUsage key on the right-hand side and change the value to 2. Here’s the available values:

Not Set: 0
Set to Default: 1
Increase Cache: 2

According to the documentation the default setting is “1″, but by default the key is set to “0″. Typically in that scenario the setting of “0″ means “Not Set”, which means the system uses the default setting. You should be able to change the value to either “0″ or “1″ in order to change this back to default.






Reboot ur pc to visualize the changes!!!