Proactive Memory Management (Superfetch)
Traditional memory management in operating systems has focused on the demand-paging model we’ve shown until now, with some advances in clustering and prefetching so that disk I/Os can be optimized at the time of the demand-page fault. Client versions of Windows, however, include a significant improvement in the management of physical memory with the implementation of Superfetch, a memory management scheme that enhances the least-recently accessed approach with historical file access information and proactive memory management.
The standby list management of previous Windows versions has had two limitations. First, the prioritization of pages relies only on the recent past behavior of processes and does not ...
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