#45 Optimize MFT runs out of RAM on system with 14GB ram.

[Rob Bruce]

I have a system with MFT percent free space issues. I was hoping 'optimize' might help me.
Instead, it ran out of RAM after several hours. (This system is an archival tool and has tons of stubbed (sparse) files on it.
Thanks in advance!

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 133 GB
MFT record count = 139,105,683
Percent MFT in use = 99
Total MFT fragments = 11,938

[Dmitri Arkhangelski]

Hello Rob,

Thank you for feedback! I have already found a way to dramatically speed up optimization and, who knows, maybe I'll find a way to reduce memory consumption as well. Anyway it would be exciting to have faster algorithms consuming less system resources. I still have a lot to do, but when everything will be done, I'll make a new release which will contain all the stuff.

Best regards,
Dmitri

[Dmitri Arkhangelski]

I don't believe it would be possible to further reduce memory consumption, so the best way would be to install more RAM.