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How can I control the amount of memory NT uses for file caching?
John Savill
March 4, 1999
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A. A. Windows NT does not allow much tuning of caching except for one registry entry.
Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)
Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl Session ManagerMemory Management
Double click on LargeSystemCache and set to 0 to reduce the amount of memory used for file caching.
Click OK
Close the registry editor
If you start the Network control panel applet and select the Services tab you can select Server and click Properties. Select "Maximize Throughput for Network Applications" to use less memory (this actually sets LargeSystemCache to 0).
System internals have released CacheSet (http://www.sysinternals.com) which allows you to more specifically set memory used for caching.
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