At 12:05 PM 8/4/2008, you wrote:
On 4 Aug 2008, at 19:47, Winterlight wrote:
RAM drive for TEMP likely counter-productive.
running from RAM rather then a hard drive counter productive... why?
Because dedicating a chunk like that You're blocking ram that could be
used for caching on an as-need basis.
I don't think so. I have 4GB RAM installed. Lots of testing, in the
past, by Maximum PC has shown little, if any, performance increase
above 2GB. It is only when RAM got so cheap that everybody, including
Maximum PC started installing 4 GB of RAM. So I have always used RAM
above 2GB for the RAM drive. But even so I can set up my RAM drive
at any size I want or even to run dynamically which mitigates that
concern. It runs as hardware in Device driver.
Mostly, I wanted the RAM drive to keep the temp file cleared out on
reboot in a secure way. I always install a RAM drive, even if it is
only a couple of hundred megs. I can put encrypted keys in there
knowing that when I reboot they are gone. I have been running it for
at least four years, and no problems.
However, most windows checks, updates, as well as firewalls =
zonealarm, large program installs, and probably games, are going to
use \windows\temp no matter what path you specify under Environment
Infact, it wouldn't surprise me if it actually slowed things down. I'd
need to do some testing to confirm/deny
Have you ever turned your swap file OFF, and run out RAM. Pretty
quick, smooth response huh? A temp directory in RAM has the same
experience. The only potential risk is that you run out of temp space.
What software are you using to setup the ram drive? presuming it's on
windows
-JB
It is shareware that I purchased by QSoft. And he sends me updates
every now then. Very stable works on 2k, xp, Vista ( or so I have read)
