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makinero:
Metafile - uses 14+ GB of RAM.
I have a 16 GB (physical) and shows 99% of RAM (in use).
How to safely fix reduce usage?

Shane:

--- Quote ---“” Metafile is part of the system cache and consists of NTFS metadata. NTFS metadata includes the MFT as well as the other various NTFS metadata files… In the MFT each file attribute record takes 1KB and each file has at least one attribute record. Add to this the other NTFS metadata files and you can see why the Metafile category can grow quite large on servers with lots of files ”
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Found a few things you can try
http://serverfault.com/questions/325277/windows-server-2008-r2-metafile-ram-usage
and
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/80c045fc-32ff-4b7f-90ce-545e8bd95138/server-2008-r2-metafile-as-seen-from-sysinternals-rammap-increases-memory-usage-rapidly?forum=winservergen

My free cleanmem program on my other site also can empty the file cache as well.

Shane

makinero:
Shane - Articles refer to Windows Server 2008 R2

--- Quote ---Found a few things you can try
http://serverfault.com/questions/325277/windows-server-2008-r2-metafile-ram-usage
and
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/80c045fc-32ff-4b7f-90ce-545e8bd95138/server-2008-r2-metafile-as-seen-from-sysinternals-rammap-increases-memory-usage-rapidly?forum=winservergen
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I use Windows 7.

Shane:
Windows 2008 R2 is the windows 7 version of server, the same things will work on it as well. :wink:

Shane

makinero:
No always work... can install this service, change the settings in the registry, still use 90-99% RAM

Windows 7 requires an additional complicated script - It's not that simple!

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