> Uh, Microsoft is doing it.
> Look Here:
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q257/4/05.ASP
Ok, this should give people pause if they are thinking of using it:
"NOTE: This sample provides an example of a minimal driver. Neither the
driver nor the sample programs are intended for use in a production
environment. Rather, they are intended for educational purposes and as a
skeletal version of a driver."
and:
"Generally, the Windows(r) 2000 cache manager does a much better job of
optimizing memory usage than Ramdisk does."
> Some other win2k ramdrive products:
> http://www.cenatek.com/product_ramdisk.cfm
This might be worth the money for a niche small dedicated app that doesn't
generate much data, but for HLDS files? My CS dir is 384MB alone! Any idea
what size RAMdisk you'd need to put all the HLDS files in it? Would you
store your log files there as well? If not, you've got some surgery to
perform on your HLDS config, in order to write out to your physical disk ban
file and logs in REALTIME. If your server goes down (the machine, not
HLDS), bye bye ban file, logs, etc.
Suffice it to say, trying to use a RAMdisk to host the files for an HLDS
server is a crappy idea.
StanTheMan
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