RAM disk ::
was wondering if you are able to allocate a section of your ram & use it for something like the swap memory........
since no power source is connected to it, it would reset everytime the cpu turned off/on, but since i'd put the swap on it, it wouldn't be much different...........
would tsi be possible w/out 3rd party ram disk pci cards?
since no power source is connected to it, it would reset everytime the cpu turned off/on, but since i'd put the swap on it, it wouldn't be much different...........
would tsi be possible w/out 3rd party ram disk pci cards?
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Sorry that I'm kinda off topic...just curious though. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
easy method for me to use, and unobtrusive to most people ....... "most".......
But you know you *could* just look at the "Topic Starter" column. I think that's actually what that column is for.
Oh well, like I said, it doesn't bug me so don't stop on my behalf.
Badtz, you need to go back to the first post of this topic, reread what you typed, and think about it for a minute.
You want to reduce the amount of RAM your system has available to make a disk. Thus, your system will perform worse because it will have to hit the disk for memory. So, then you want to point the virtual memory to the RAM disk you just made, attempting to negate the fact that you took away the RAM in the first place.
I'm sorry, but that's got to be the most ridiculous idea I've read in a long time.
Besides, Mac OS won't let you put your swap on a RAM disk. Why? It's pointless. The performance would be worse than if you didn't set a RAM disk to begin with.
edit: Oh, and furthermore, you can't use a RAM disk in Mac OS X. I seem to recall some UNIX trickery that could be done to simulate a RAM disk in X, but I'm pretty sure that it's generally not a good idea...
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The only usefull application for a RAM-disk that I experienced was, when you allocated the disk-cache of Netscape 4 to it. This really speeded up Netscape.
<strong>The other use of Ram disk is photoshop.It helps quite much to use it as a scratch disk.</strong><hr></blockquote>Oh, I completely agree on that note. For disk-intense work like that when handling 100+ MB files, a RAM disk does help quite a bit. It was my impression, however, that Badtz wanted to put his swap file there -- which would be a counterintuitive maneuver.
The fact still remains, though, that there's no GUI for creating RAM disks in Mac OS X, which I believe will be Badtz's main OS.
<strong>The fact still remains, though, that there's no GUI for creating RAM disks in Mac OS X, which I believe will be Badtz's main OS.</strong><hr></blockquote>
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Rambunctions.