[SOLVED] Memory cache

[KO041607]

What is dram memory cache and why on windows it shows as 20gb even though I have 8gb of ram installed

 

[Bob.B]

What is dram memory cache and why on windows it shows as 20gb even though I have 8gb of ram installed

Where are you seeing this?

 

[CountMike]

What is dram memory cache and why on windows it shows as 20gb even though I have 8gb of ram installed

Some of it is on disk as pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys. OS tries to write to disk in those files anything that doesn't fit in physical RAM and some data that's not used in RAM for some time. It is of course much slower but helps in keeping free as much RAM as possible.