After thinking about it some more, I agree with Boris. Even my cache is set to 10 gig.
Godfrey On Sep 4, 2013, at 1:20 AM, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: > IMHO, 4GB of RAMDisk cannot generate any serious benefit for LR. > > Sorry, Igor. > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Igor Roshchin <s...@komkon.org> wrote: >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> By virtues of various mishaps and troubles, my laptop ended up >> having 8GB of RAM. >> However, it has win7-32bit system, which without special hacks cannot >> address more than just under 4Gb of RAM. >> >> Those hacks while working for some setups, seem to be having problems >> with the HD graphics drivers for Win7 from Intel (and my graphics card >> is from Intel). >> http://wj32.org/wp/2011/02/23/pae-patch-updated-for-windows-7-sp1/ >> (and there are couple of others). >> >> So, the alternative way of using that extra memory is to create a >> vritual drive in the memory. >> One example would be RAMDisk: >> http://memory.dataram.com/support/ramdisk-support-center/ramdisk-product-support-faq >> >> This way, I could have 4GB RAMdisk partition, which presumably is about >> 10 time faster than the SSD I have (~5000 MB/s vs ~400-500 MB/s) >> So, my question is: if I wanted to speed up LR on this laptop, >> what should I put on that RAMdisk partition? >> I can see two possibilities: >> 1. LR catalog (this would probably include the previews? I am not aware >> how I could have the catalog and previews on different drives, could I?) >> >> 2. The current photo collection. >> >> If it is #2, the procedure would have to be as follows: >> a) From within LR move the imported collection to RAMDisk. >> b) Work on it. >> c) Move it back. >> (This way I don't need to "find" it.) >> Is there a better way of accomplishing that? >> >> Any other ideas? >> >> Igor >> >> PS. No, 64-bit OS is not an option at the moment. >> I might do that later. >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Boris > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
