MemManager 0.3.0

• See what MemManager does:
  • A new Activity view lists every action and warning in plain words: what, why (the
    triggering reading), which apps, and the measured result.
  • Actions appear as dots on the dashboard graph.
  • "Now:" and "Last:" status lines.
  • "trimmed"/"quieted" badges on apps (Windows).
• Leaner dashboard: detail lines moved into Activity; the cache caption shows only with the
  one-time explainer.
• Lower idle cost: app rows, graph history and the activity list are built only while the
  flyout or popover is open.
• App icon for the exe, installer and macOS bundle, generated by scripts/make_icons.py.

Upgrading

• From 0.2.0: MemManager offers this update by itself within a day of its release; to get it
  sooner, use Settings → Updates → Check now. It installs in place and keeps your settings.
• From 0.1.0: install this version once by hand.

Known limitations

• Unsigned builds:
  • Windows SmartScreen may warn.
  • On macOS, right-click → Open the first time.
• Not yet hand-tested: the dashboards and the Activity view are verified headless in CI only.
• Windows only: the cache-hit line and the app badges.

Install

• Windows 10/11 (x64 or ARM64): run MemManager-0.3.0-windows-setup.exe. Keep "Start at login with memory-cleaning privileges" checked so MemManager can manage memory without asking for admin each time. Uninstall from Settings → Apps.
• macOS 13+: open MemManager-0.3.0-macos-universal.dmg and drag MemManager to Applications. On first launch, right-click → Open (the build is not notarized yet).
• Portable Windows zips and a macOS zip are attached as well.

Measured memory reduction

Each row creates real bloat on a GitHub-hosted runner, runs the action through the same code path the app uses, and measures memory freed plus the cost afterwards. Numbers vary by machine and workload.

Windows (CI runner, 15.99 GiB RAM, build 26100)

Bloat	Action	Freed	% of RAM	Cost afterwards
Idle apps holding private memory	Selective trim of idle apps (tier 4)	2.00 GiB	12.5%	re-touch 516 ms vs 7 ms warm; 1 hard page faults
Modified (dirty) pages from trimmed apps	Flush modified list (tier 4)	1.58 GiB	9.9%	pagefile writes; pages become reusable cache
File cache after reading a large file	Clear low-priority cache (tier 2)	0.00 GiB	0.0%	none: only cache Windows was about to discard
File cache after reading a large file	Clear standby cache (tier 3)	6.01 GiB	37.5%	re-reading the file took 4929 ms vs 263 ms from cache
All of the above at once	Deep clean (manual)	5.27 GiB	32.9%	606746 hard faults in the next 10 s (baseline 1245); apps re-touch 13099 ms
Identical pages across the system	Combine pages (tier 5)	0.01 GiB	0.1%	CPU scan only

macOS (CI runner, 7.00 GiB RAM)

Bloat	Action	Freed	% of RAM	Cost afterwards
Volatile purgeable memory (app caches)	Nudge (helper)	0.70 GiB	10.0%	apps regenerate purged caches on next use
App holding a cache, cooperative	Nudge (helper)	0.70 GiB	10.0%	the app rebuilds its cache when needed
File cache after reading a large file	Purge disk cache (manual, helper)	2.80 GiB	39.9%	re-reading the file took 578 ms vs 84 ms from cache
Idle app holding memory	Quit idle app (suggestion / allowlist)	0.70 GiB	10.0%	the app must be reopened

Checksums (SHA-256)

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