Re: Possible to setup a Ramdisk in WindowsXP?
From: Ken Blake, MVP (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain)
Date: 05/30/04
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Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 15:55:29 -0700
In news:10bkoagcovbnjc9@corp.supernews.com,
who be dat? <whatever@dot.com> typed:
> Well, he does some editing on audio files for his church who
plays a
> lot of his music/sounds/announcements during services and
special
> occasions and some occasional radio commercials. He's got a
fairly
> old system with not much memory. He want sto grab an Opteron
system
> and use WinXP on it till a 64-bit version of Windows comes out.
He's
> got some money to spend and is planning on getting a dual
system with
> 4 Gb's of memory first then adding more memory to it when Win64
comes
> out. Eventually, he plans to do some audio editing as well and
> produce commercials for TV and such as well as make videos for
the
> church.
>
> I've seen him do some work. The machine he currently uses goes
back
> and forth to the harddrive like crazy. Personally, I think he
could
> turn off VM and that would help a lot once he gets the new
machine
> with 4Gb's of memory, but he wants to use a RAMDisk for some
reason.
No, turning off Virtual Memry wouldn't help it all, it would
hurt. Moreover, *especially* since he doesn't have much memory, a
RAM disk will hurt his performance greatly.
What is he planning to put on the RAM disk? If he plans to put
the page file there, that makes no sense at all; it's the
absolute worst possible use of a RAM disk. It's like borrowing
from Peter to pay Paul. What he saves in going to the RAM disk
instead of the drive, he pays back by having that much less
memory for Windows to work with and the consequent need to page
more.
The net result is no savings in paging, and a substantial
slowdown because of the overhead of the RAM disk.
If he's currently paging a lot with the mix of apps that he runs,
there is only one way to decrease the amount of paging--install
more RAM.
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup > "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message > news:uenND9oREHA.3348@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... >> In news:10bkclm48j7bj1f@corp.supernews.com, >> who be dat? <whatever@dot.com> typed: >> >> > I guess the subject says it all. A friend is wanting to set up >> a >> > ramdisk in WinXP. I don't have the slightest idea how or if >> it's >> > even possible? If it's possible, can somebody direct me how. >> If >> > not, are their any software solutions that will let you do >> this? >> >> >> Why does he want to do this? Except in rare specialized >> situations, using a RAM disk in Windows is a mistake. >> >> >> -- >> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User >> Please reply to the newsgroup
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