Too little ram for a ramdisk on Windows 10

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I'm trying to create a 3GB Diskram drive using my ram(8GB) but at least in Windows 10 I always end up running out of memory.

What I'm curious about is that Windows 10 64 bits runson 2GB minimum, so why am I running out of RAM if I have 8GB and am trying to runa 3GB Ramdisk drive which in theory leaves my system with 3GB to spare??

 
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8GB is really too small to section off 3GB of it for a RAMDisk.

That 3GB is totally walled off, leaving the rest of the system with 5GB max. The OS + all your other applications might be bumping up against that 5GB.


2GB for the OS is the minimum it will run on.
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8GB is really too small to section off 3GB of it for a RAMDisk.

That 3GB is totally walled off, leaving the rest of the system with 5GB max. The OS + all your other applications might be bumping up against that 5GB.


2GB for the OS is the minimum it will run on.
 
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