Re: Ram Drive

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 11/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:28:49 +0000

Gareth Tuckwell wrote:

>
>More than the 2GB I already have?? And I am talking about 600MB of temporary
>files being used over a 10-15 minute period - I know a little bit of OS
>cache doesn't store that all in memory - I can hear the hard disk thrashing
>away during the build!!

In XP yes it does, provided there is no other more important use around
(which is unlikely). But if you have a RAM drive it will just insert
its cache in between that and your program, thus using RAM twice over. 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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