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Optimum use of Windows7 32bit PAE Ramdisk (3GB + 1GB PAE)
Besides switching to Windows 64bit (or Linux 64bit) what is the best strategy to make the most of my 1GB PAE ramdisk (on a Laptop with a slow harddrive)?
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What free ramdisk for Windows 7 x64 are you using? [closed]
What free ramdisk for Windows 7 x64 are you using? I need less than 100 MB at this time.
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What to put on RAMDisk on Windows?
I got a lot of RAM installed in my PC recently and I looked into this RAMDisk thing.
There are two things I've found from my investigation:
You should not mess with Windows native pagefile/memory ...
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How can I tell if I can increase RAM from 4 GB to 8 GB on my FSC Amilo XA 3530 Laptop?
I want to increase my laptop speed and use a ram disk but my RAM size is very low. How can I tell if I can increase my RAM from 4 GB on my FSC Amilo XA 3530 laptop? The specs stats it is DDR2 800Mhz ...
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How long is the life of a memory stick? [closed]
I want to use some memory which is integrated in the motherboard, to make a ramdisk, so that the SSD won't be written to as an internet video buffer.
But I doubt that life of the memory would be too ...
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Why can't I eject ramdisk on OSX?
I followed these instructions for creating a ramdisk on OSX. Now I can't unmount the disk despite not using it (lsof verifies nothing is using the disk).
Instructions to create:
$ hdid -nomount ...
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Install entire visual studio on ramdisk?
How would i go about installing visual studio 2010 and all of its dependencies entirely on a ramdisk? I have 16GB ram in my computer and a 4GB ramdisk just for visual studio.
If i just try to ...
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Windows RAM disk that can be installed on the command line, and supports > 4GB?
Is there a Windows RAM disk that can:
Be installed/controlled from the command line.
Supports > 4GB on a 64-bit system.
I've written a .NET app to decompress some .rar files to a temporary ...
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Can I create a RAM disk using GPU Memory? [closed]
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Is it possible to use GPU memory as more main memory?
I would like to create a RAM disk/drive using the GPU's RAM/memory.
Then use ReadyBoost on Windows to use the disk ...
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Will these 2 RAMs play nicely?
EDIT To the Original Question:
I did some research and the old computer I discovered is a Dell Dimension 2400. According to the SPEC Sheet the RAM is PC2100 (266-MHz) or PC2700 (333-MHz) DDR SDRAM ...
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Windows 7 Virtual Memory Optimization - ReadyBoost vs. Flash Swap vs. RAM Disk?
At first i thought ReadyBoost means having swap file allocated to flash drive which is wrong because ReadyBoost serves as additional storage for swap file or should i say it mirrors swap file on hard ...
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Spin down hard drive while on treadmill (or car or any other shaky environment)
I have a laptop with 8GB of RAM running Windows 7.
Is it possible to completely shut off the hard drive while browsing the web? I use Firefox.
I figure I would need to do this if I wanted to prevent ...
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How do I deallocate a Linux RAMDISK, e.g. /dev/ram0?
I've been playing with Linux RAMDISKs, as in the block device /dev/ram0. I understand that when I first start writing to one of these devices some RAM is allocated to it.
How do I free the memory ...
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What is the max. capacity of RAM in 32-bit machine? Why it is not 16GB? [closed]
This question is inspired from a question in stackoverflow here
To what I know,
for 32bit machines, we can have 2^32 combination set of instructions.
so for a max capacity of a RAM in 32-bit ...
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Has someone written (or is aware of) an instruction guide for setting up a RAMDisk and using it for pagefile.sys?
I was talking with a friend the other day about Windows in general and I mentioned that there is, unfortunately no way (that I was aware of) to disable the page file within Windows. Regardless of the ...
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Ramdisk… anyone tried using one?
I have 12GB of RAM on my Windows 7 computer, and it's completely going to waste, I use only around 2GB and only once managed to get up to 3GB used.
I read about how some software can turn a chunk of ...
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Maximum vmalloc parameter size for linux?
First off all, I'm booting from a large MEMDISK using PXE (900MB) . Due to our environment, I cannot decrease the size, nor move files to a nfs/iSCSI/... environment. Everything needs to be in that ...
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What is the best software to test disk IO in Windows 7?
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What files are accessed often?
Hi any recommendations on some good free software to test disk IO in Windows 7? I will be running a dedicated SSD swap drive and also ...
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which ZFS-like filesystem can optimize volume selection based on file access patterns?
Is there a redundant RAID/ZFS-like filesystem that can optimize the placement of files based on their access patterns? My goal is to build a desktop system that will automatically move files among a ...
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How can I change the amount and size of Linux ramdisks (/dev/ram0 - /dev/ram15)?
Using Linux, when I boot I automatically have 16 16MB ramdisks, however, I would like to create one really large ramdisk to test some software.
I found that I can adjust the size of the ramdisks ...
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How can I automatically mount/unmount ramdisk on a 64-bit ubuntu server?
My ubuntu server has 24GB of RAM. I want to automatically create ramdisk on boot and load files from the /home/user1/ramdisk folder. When the system shuts down, I need to load files from ramdisk back ...
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Looking for Windows RAM Disk which mirrors writes to hard disk
I'm looking for a RAM disk (preferably free) which gets its contents from a specified folder on the hard disk and also writes changes made to it back to that folder. Is there such a thing for Windows?
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How to treat a new SSD--optimizations and longevity
I was hoping to compile a list of tips/tricks for optimizing and extending the life of SSDs.
I just purchased my first SSD and put it in my laptop, and will soon be installing a pair into my desktop ...
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Does it make sense using a RAM disk in Mac OS X?
Curious to know: does using a RAM disk in the Mac OS X operating system make sense in terms of performance and speed?
for more context: I was thinking of moving my Browser's Cache folder (Google ...
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What is the difference between ramdisk and ramfs?
Kindly tell me the difference between ramdisk and ramfs.
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Ramdisk ubuntu 10.04
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04(64bit) for my desktop.
The machine has a 5GB RAM.
I want to use RAM disk(1G or 2G) but I don't know how can I do this.
Is there any opensource product of RAM disk?
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What will happen if there is not TEMP variable set or if it is set what will happen if the folder/drive does not exist?
i want to setup a ramdisk for various purposes and among them i would want to set the TEMP variable to point to a folder in the ramdisk.
I haven't done this yet, but the ramdisk will be initialized ...
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Setting up a Ramdisk on WXP
I need to do some lossless screencapture, and I am bumping into the maximum speed of the I/O access.
I decided to add a ramdisk, but I found few freeware ones, but I ended installing the ARSoft one, ...
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RAM caching of files on disk, based on file extension
This is what I need: improve access time with small files of specific extension type, by making them pre-loaded in RAM.
I need this to speed up visual studio builds.
Does anybody know of a cache ...
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Why doesn't my RAMDisk performance match my HDD's performance?
I've been thinking about using temporary GIT repositories on RAMDisks (using DataRAM's ramdisk) as a kind of object store. I was interested to see whether it was worthwhile, so I ran a simple ...
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Want Visual Studio 2010 stop using the drive when there's lots of RAM in Windows 7 64 bit
I will be upgrading my system to use 16GB of DDR3 RAM in a Windows 7 64 bit and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. CPU will be 6 cores 3.2Ghz. I do lots of compiles/day and my goal for VS is to show a web ...
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Can I use the unused 1G of 4G on a 32bit machine as a ramdisk?
I have a machine with 4G of RAM, but running 32bit windows 7, so can only see 3G. I have read somwhere recently that that unused 1G can be used as a RamDisk. Is this true? What sort of program allows ...
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Is putting the swapfile & temp folder to ramdisk a good idea in Windows 7 64 bit with lots of RAM?
I want my Windows to run as fast as possible. If I have 12GB RAM in Windows 7 64bit, quad core CPU, and all apps fit in memory, will the swap file ever be used for anything? The question is about if ...
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Increase ramdisk size on Ubuntu 9.10
How can I increase the ramdisk size on a Ubuntu 9.10 system? I have read one technique is to change the ramdisk_size parameter in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. However, I am unable to find this file ...
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Linux: prevent VNC from swapping like mad
EDIT actually I'm not sure that it's swapping like mad: I've done more testing and it looks like there may some interference causing the noise that may be correlating with network usage. This is ...
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How can I create consistent snapshots of tmpfs?
How can I create consistent snapshots of tmpfs or any RAM disks?
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Can I put /tmp and /var/log in a ramdisk on OS X?
For non-critical Linux systems, I often move things like /tmp and /var/log to tmpfs to save on some disk writing. I've been doing this for a year or so and if I ever need the logs across reboots, I ...
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When to use a RAM-Disk?
I know that RAM-Disk are fast, faster than any Disk but they lose their contents on a shutdown of the operating system. The capacity is limited to the RAM.
Is there a useful implementation on a new ...
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Ram disk for windows 7 [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What's the best ramdisk for Windows?
How do I setup a ram disk for w7?
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write-through RAM disk, or massive caching of file system?
I have a program that is very heavily hitting the file system, reading and writing randomly to a set of working files. The files total several gigabytes in size, but I can spare the RAM to keep them ...
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RAM Disk for Windows PCs [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What's the best ramdisk for Windows?
I remember that back in the "good old days" of MSDOS a RAM disk driver was bundled with the "OS" and by doing some simple ...
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RAMDisk option in NTLDR
While experimenting for this answer, I came accross the following messages in NTLDR:
Windows could not start due to an error while booting from a RAMDISK.
The RAMDISK options specified in boot.ini ...
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Is there such a thing as a persistent ram drive?
I have a laptop with a LAMP setup. The HDD is slow, which causes my unit tests to run slowly.
I was wondering whether I could mount the web root the mysql database on some kind of ramdisk.
From what ...
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Is using a Virtual PC on a RAM DISK super fast? (putting the .vhd file in a RAM DISK)
I wonder how or if any one tried to create a RAM DISK, and then put the 2GB (or sometimes 1.2GB) .vhd file into it, and then run the virtual PC using this image.
It should be running super fast, as ...
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OS X: Creating RAMDisk in root
How would I create a RAMDisk on OS X for a read-only filesystem, so that any attempted writes to the drive (which is read-only) are directed to the RAMDisk instead?
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Why would a RAMdisk be used today?
After reading this question I started thinking, "Hey, what happened to those RAM disk utilities we used to run in the ol' DOS days?"
I haven't heard about RAM disks for years until today, but why? ...
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What's the best ramdisk for Windows?
Just Googling for "windows ramdisk" returns a lot of stuff; some free, some paid. Can someone recommend a good one? (I'm willing to pay, but only if it's really worth paying for.)
Here's what I'm ...
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A ramdisk for Vista with “unlimited space”
I am using PostgreSQL and I want to explicitly place a database with 4 gb of data in memory. I have read a lot of forums discussing whether this is a good idea and I have decided that I want to give ...
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Is it possible to run Windows XP from a RAM disk?
I want to see if there are speed improvements running Windows XP entirely from RAM, as Damn Small Linux (Would it be Damn Small Windows?).
I've seen Windows XP running from Live CDs and from Flash ...
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How do I add a ramdisk to XP Embedded
I'm going to run a program that operates through some temporary files on a Windows XP Embedded machine, and want to spare the compact flash device. It came with a compact flash image already set up ...
