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I did some research on my computer system (see my signature for system details) with some 170.000 files. I put the latest version of Defraggler to work and memory usage increased from ~ 4 MB to ~ 110 MB when it analyzed the drive.
After finishing the analysis memory usage went down to ~ 80 MB. So, Defraggler does make brave attempt to reduce memory usage. (minus ~ 30 MB). Only PcWinTech's Cleanmem reduces the memory usage down to a mere ~ 2 MB again. But I don't whether or not that would "break" anything Defraggler stores in the memory.
When I, after running Cleanmem, put DF to work again then it seems this memory usage reduction (Cleanmem) didn't have a noticable negative impact on the speed with wich DF analyses & defragments a (logical) drive. But that's with a memory usage of ~ 22%. I don't know whether or not it would a difference when a system has a memory usage as high as "Maki" had.
I also looked at the size of the file cache (with Cleanmem's Mini Monitor) but after opening the program itself the size of the filecache actually never/barely increased or decreased. In that regard, Defraggler seems to be trying to keep the filecache as small as possible as well.