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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:41 pm    Post subject: Reduice Memory Useage!! Reply with quote

I love VDS 5!! Here is a small bit of code that will reduce the memory useage of your application. You can put it in your event loop or at key spots in your script. I have tested it with no ill effects.

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  loadlib "psapi.dll"
  %t = @lib("psapi.dll","EmptyWorkingSet",INT:,-1)
  freelib "psapi.dll"

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow! My VDS tray applications usually use between 7,000 and 8,000 K. I just added your code to the event loop of one and the memory used dropped from 7,350K to ~700K - with occasional spikes to 2,000K.

Thanks LC

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very very very very... very Good !!!!!! Shocked
25Mo -> ~1Mo...


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, I like it. Smile

I have only used it on Windows XP. Can someone check if it works on 98,NT, 2K and Vista?

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Requires Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, or Windows 2000 Server.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sweet. Thanks
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

HOLY @#$%!!!!

What.. competeing for the title of All Mighty???!!!!!!!

Nice one!!
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Keep in mind that this will slow your app down if it uses/checks variables very often, as they are constantly put in and taken out of memory.
Very good idea for system tray/background apps though.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is a very useful post. However, alarm bells rang over the availability of it. The VDS runtime uses it to get the task list and processes under Windows NT and greater only, and it loads it only when required and caters for the possibility that it is not available. So my feeling is that its availability should not be taken for granted.

As far as I know psaspi.dll is NOT available on Win9x, nor on Windows NT, though a redistributable version for NT is available from Microsoft. If you are going to use it, I would test for its existence at the start of the script and load it if it exists, and set a variable %%psapi_loaded = 1, and then call it only if the variable is true. That would avoid problems on systems where it doesn't exist.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Impressive! So far works like a charm!

Thanks for sharing Chris! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi All,
IMHO I would be carefull using this function. You are removing available memory pages from a process which could slow the performance of your program.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello

Is there a way to Reduce Memory Usage of a non VDS app. like FireFox, Photoshop... using this script ?
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is more info about the API being used:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682606.aspx

You need a handle of the process you want to apply the EmptyWorkingSet function to. I don't know if they mean the handles you can get by doing list tasklist, but it might be worth a try Smile

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 3:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello Skit3000
I tried this but it do not work... Sad

Code:

loadlib "psapi.dll"
%t = @lib("psapi.dll","EmptyWorkingSet",INT:,firefox.exe)
freelib "psapi.dll"


Have you an idea of the script ?
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Skit3000 wrote:
... I don't know if they mean the handles you can get by doing list tasklist, but it might be worth a try Smile


The handle in question is a handle to the applications instance. You can
get an applications instance (HINSTANCE) handle with several APIs.

Gregland, replace "firefox.exe" with the value obtained from
GetModuleHandle("x:\pathtofirefox\firefox.exe"). This API resides in the
Kernel32.dll. It may be GetModuleHandleA() or GetModuleHandleW().

Call this API after the application is loaded into memory.

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