RAMdisk questions and stuff
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Sandstorm3000
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You can use a ''ramdisk'' to put a game on, or whatever. So you have 16gb of RAM but you just use 6-8 at max while in game and stuff. Than you can use the other 8GB To temporarily put a game on so its loading speeds will be much and much faster. The data on the RAM will be lost if your computer shuts down though. So you will need to load the program on the RAM each and every time you boot your pc.
WyomingKnott
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A RAMdisk is a reserved section of your RAM that pretends to be a disk, and that you can use like a very, very fast drive.
My personal opinion is that using one for a page file is a waste of time - if you create an 8 GB pagefile on ramdisk, you have removed 8 GB of memory from the system's use, and it will spend time paging from the memory that isn't the ramdisk to and from the memory that is.
A ramdisk is useful for something that you want to access really, really, really fast. I used to build Java projects in Eclipse on a ramdisk, but you lose everything on such a disk if the system goes down. So I haven't found a real use for one in ages. You could speed up game loads or other app loads, but they you are just moving the time - the ram disk has to be primed when you boot your system.
My personal opinion is that using one for a page file is a waste of time - if you create an 8 GB pagefile on ramdisk, you have removed 8 GB of memory from the system's use, and it will spend time paging from the memory that isn't the ramdisk to and from the memory that is.
A ramdisk is useful for something that you want to access really, really, really fast. I used to build Java projects in Eclipse on a ramdisk, but you lose everything on such a disk if the system goes down. So I haven't found a real use for one in ages. You could speed up game loads or other app loads, but they you are just moving the time - the ram disk has to be primed when you boot your system.
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A pagefile is (mostly) used when you run out of actual RAM.
So you are reducing the amount of RAM you have available, to dedicate to having the pagefile on a RAMDisk, to use when you run out of RAM. Counterproductive.
I ran a 4GB RAMDisk for Adobe Lightroom scratchspace for about a year. I saw no actual performance benefit over just having that on an SSD.
So I turned it off.
So you are reducing the amount of RAM you have available, to dedicate to having the pagefile on a RAMDisk, to use when you run out of RAM. Counterproductive.
I ran a 4GB RAMDisk for Adobe Lightroom scratchspace for about a year. I saw no actual performance benefit over just having that on an SSD.
So I turned it off.
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