running SmartRam while defragmenting?

[balue]

Wow, I am so glad that I found this program!
I had tried other defragmenters before and alway heard my HD
scratching and rumpling and had very bad feeling with,
but with JkDefrag it runs quietly!

Now I have a question, I have a program running, SmartRam, should
I disable this prog while defragmenting or should I let it running?

[WHRoeder]

Don't disable smartram while defragmenting, uninstall it permanently.  All your doing is purging any disk cache windows has thus making your system slower.

[jeroen]

Now I have a question, I have a program running, SmartRam, should
I disable this prog while defragmenting or should I let it running?

What is SmartRam?

[balue]

SmartRam is part of a freeware program Advanced WindowsCare Personal
I think it keeps the ram memory free, or so 
I deinstalled the whole program and now I dont hear my HD anymore 
Thank you 4 the advice

[Fuzzl]

it keeps the ram memory free

Yeah, you probably mean it tries to maximize the amount of free pages in the physical memory, which is a bad thing.

The memory management of Windows 2000k and later is good enough. If you have problems with some programs then it's probably a memory leak in one of those programs, or you have not a lot of RAM anyway... 512 MB is a minimum on Windows XP and older... it's better to have 1GB.

And Vista needs at least 1-2GB.

DDR2 RAM is cheap at the moment, older DDR is very expensive (twice as DDR2)... so if you have a newer system buy more RAM if you're underneath the values above.

[jeroen]

SmartRam is part of a freeware program Advanced WindowsCare Personal

I have not found any specific information on the internet about SmartRam, so I don't know why your system runs more quietly when SmartRam is turned off while running JkDefrag. Generally speaking JkDefrag is a very well behaved program and compatible with just about anything. My impression from your postings is that there is no real problem with SmartRam, just some extra disk activity. So I have no advice at this time, it's entirely up to you to decide if you want to run or stop SmartRam.