* Vista SuperFetch: Adding Another Cache Level to Your System
posted by Thom Holwerda on Sat 7th Oct 2006 17:50 UTC, submitted by PlatformAgnostic
IconSuperFetch, a new feature of Windows Vista, is designed to intelligently manage memory pages to keep the system responsive even after running background tasks that take a lot of memory. Watch this Channel9 video to see how Vista attempts to form subsets of memory to page together. The speaker also touches on other new kernel-level features such as ReadyBoost and flash-based hibernate.
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