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How to setup a RAM disk without using third-party software?
How may I setup a RAM disk on my Windows 7 computer without using third-party software? There seems to be a lot of third-party applications that can do this, but I am wondering if this is something ...
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Maximum memory on 32-bit Windows 7… [closed]
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can a 32-bit OS machine use up all 8GB RAM + 20GB page file?
I understand that I will not be able to use a full 4 GB on my 32-bit Windows 7 installation. I ready have ...
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Virtual Machine files on ramdisk doesn't run faster than on physical disk
I installed total 36G memory (4x8G + 2x2G) in the host (Windows 7) and I used ImDisk to create a 32G ramdisk and format it to NTFS file system. Then I copied the virtual machine (in VMware Workstation ...
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Best approach to utilize RamDisk for Chrome?
I use a lot of tabs and after a while less recently opened tabs take some time to become responsive, which I guess is because they're being un-cached to HDD as they're not required.
So after ...
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Periodically back up ramdisk
Are there any Windows ramdisk drivers that can periodically back up the ramdisk to a file? I am familiar with ones that can save the file on demand and on shutdown.
I'd like to gain control over the ...
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4GB to 8GB RAM, what performance increase?
I am wondering whether it is worth upgrading from 4 GB to 8 GB of RAM. I know the question has been asked many times, but I can't transpose that to my case. I'm using Windows 7 64-bit.
I did a test ...
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Trying to figure out how to clean up my computer and make it run faster and determine if I need another RAM [closed]
My computer is running really slow. It is old and has never had any clean up or maintenance until I got it. Ive tried doing everything I can to make it run faster. I bought an external hard drive and ...
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Increase ramdrive memory for Hiren Boot CD
Does anyone know how to increase partition for Ramdrive R: for Hiren Boot CD ?
I installed a new Program with more than 64mb and I cannot run it.
By default it's size in 64mb.
IF not where I Could ...
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How do I load Ubuntu into RAM and boot from it?
The Problem
I have a USB flash drive which, among Windows PE and other things, has an Ubuntu 11.04 system on a virtual (file-based) partition:
<drive>/ubuntu/disks/boot.disk mount point ...
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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)?
Here ...
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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]
Possible Duplicate:
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?
Possible Duplicate:
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 ...
