☣ How to Make A Memory Optimizer in VBScript / VBS FreeMyMind.vbs

[imComYOU]

Thank god someone else thinks "Fuck Hello World", when I wanted to get into programming I would want something GOOD to be my first project, not a shitty "press button and get popup box".

[TechWilling]

I actually did not realize Hello World was the standard for your first program. It really was when I learned Visual Basics!

[megavox]

Windows Script Host Error line:1 Char:1 Error: Out of string space: 'Space' Code: 800A000E Source: Microsoft VBScript runtime Error

[BlackwaterOpsDotCom]

@megavox I think that means you need a smaller number, and it couldn't reserve that much space.

[ChiefLeftenant]

@BlackwaterOpsDotCom You should make a good video about Single Core CPU, Dual Core CPU, And Quad Core CPU. All in the mobile phone market. With battery life comparison. What performances and hindrances a quad core CPU for a phone would do.

[greyfade]

This script doesn't do what you think it does.

This snakeoil method has been around for many years, and it's no more effective now than it was then. When you allocate large swaths of memory like this, Windows will evict some of its caches (which speed up your computer generally) and then if it needs more space for your "optimizer," it then starts pushing more into swap.

This doesn't work is because memory is allocated in 4k chunks that can be non-sequential, and it's freed when programs end.

[greyfade]

(To clarify, I mean the caches speed up your computer. Not their being evicted.)

[BlackwaterOpsDotCom]

@greyfade It does exactly what I said it does. It frees up memory if you are going to play a Game, and resets those caches similar to doing a reboot.

That's not snake oil.

[greyfade]

@BlackwaterOpsDotCom That's simply not so. The caches will be evicted when the game requests additional memory anyway, and no "garbage collection" takes place... ever. Windows routinely allocates non-sequential pages of memory when large allocations are made, and "fragmentation" is a complete non-issue.

Ask anyone who is intimately familiar with Windows' internals, and they'll tell you the same thing.

This snake oil is older than the hills.

[BlackwaterOpsDotCom]

@greyfade I didn't say it did defragmenting.  Bing/Google me. I'm "Intimately familiar" with Windows Internals.

[chubz1337]

wow actually worked out very well. Did 2gb's worth (8GB ram installed on 64 bit) and it took the usage from 3.40-ish down to 2.84

[BlackwaterOpsDotCom]

@chubz1337 You sound surprised? Have I ever lead you astray?

[killaturo]

Worked great!, thanks, but why naming it brandon, does changing the name make a difference?

[BlackwaterOpsDotCom]

@killaturo So that when someone steals my code and posts it to a Forum I can track where it went and say, "Hey AssHat, if you are going to steal my code you should link to my video" :-)

[greyfade]

@BlackwaterOpsDotCom If you're going to take credit for this, at least acknowledge that this "technique" has been floating around the collective consciousness of Windows "power users" since at least 1995.

[BlackwaterOpsDotCom]

@greyfade I explained that this was how to build something other people sell. I didn't claim I invented the technique.

[BlackwaterOpsDotCom]

There is a sequel to this video coming, with a more advanced version of the script, but I talked to long and the camera was full so it didn't get all of it so I have to re-record.

[JMZ619]

mac?

[BlackwaterOpsDotCom]

@JMZ619 Oh, On a mac, you will need to install parallels, windows XP, Vista, 7, or 8, and then proceed :-)

[cusinndzl]

This is pretty useful on my Windows 7 machine I've been running 24/7 for the past month.

[ojmar]

It reduced my ram usage by about 500mb as planned...but it before it worked it maxed out my memory and almost crashed the system :S

[BlackwaterOpsDotCom]

@ojmar the sequel to this video is a bit smarter about that, but you might lower the numbers so it doesn't try to reserve so much ram

[goohman]

I went from 1gig down to 611.

[BlackwaterOpsDotCom]

@goohman That's the kind of numbers I expected.

[GuruAce]

Nice =)

[BlackwaterOpsDotCom]

Acutally I went from 860 to 804 so I gained 60 Megabytes. I just had forgotten by the time I re-read the number.

[Huntinheads]

Only 4 mb of ram in that system