Re: Possible to setup a Ramdisk in WindowsXP?

From: who be dat? (whatever_at_dot.com)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 22:19:58 -0400

When I said he's wanting to use a Ramdisk and possibly turn off VM (my
suggestion actually), I meant it would be done on the newer system which
would have 4 Gbs at the minimum. He's curretnly using Win2000 with 512 megs
of memory. Doing such things now would be digital suicide.

After reading some and thinking about it, I think I'm going to pass on teh
suggestion that if he's going to do it then do it such that it will only
load/save the files he's using and working on to the ramdisk. Quite
frankly, I wouldn't bother with a ramdisk but he's a freak.

Thanks for the thoughts!

Chris Smith

"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
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>
> 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

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