备用内存 释放,编程清除Windows 7备用内存

Recently I've had some problems with my system running out of memory. It took a while to discover what was going on, but I eventually determined that when I copied large amounts of data to my machine from a file share an equivalently large amount of memory was put into 'Standby'. Task Manager doesn't appear to show the Standby memory usage, but Resource Monitor does. At first I could only get the memory back by rebooting, but I eventually I discovered that the SysInternals guys had written a great utility to free the memory (link below).

Here is a brief blurb on Standby memory:

The Standby list contains unmodified pages that have been removed from process working sets, which effectively makes the Standby list a cache. If a process needs a page that is on the Standby list, the memory manager immediately returns the page to its working set.

All pages on the Standby list are available for memory allocation requests. If a process requests memory, the memory manager can take a page from the Standby list, initialize it, and allocate it to the calling process. This is called repurposing a page.

Pages on the Standby list are often from recently used files. By keeping these pages on the Standby list, the memory manager reduces the need to read information from the disk. Disk reads can decrease system responsiveness.

(this is from the document here: Memory Sizing Guidance

Here is a link to the tool:

RAMMap

My Question Is:

Does anyone have an idea how do this programmatically? Ideally I'd like to use C#, but I would appreciate any pointers that might help me get to an answer.

Thanks!

解决方案

The secret seems to be in the Process Hacker source code (which is in c language). Looking at the code, you'll see a promising command MemoryPurgeStandbyList which seems to be called when we choose the "empty standby list" option in the GUI.

memlists.c(227, 35): command = MemoryPurgeStandbyList;

ntexapi.h(1475, 5): MemoryPurgeStandbyList,

Also available here as a command line version.