From: A Kumar (themeion_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Aug 05 1999 - 09:35:58 EDT
Why are you trying to use a ram disk for virtual memory? It seems
completely backwards. If you want to make sure your not swapping to the HD
just turn off virtual memory. How does decreasing your free ram and
severely limiting the size of your swap file help performance? The idea
behind virtual memory is that when you have run out of actual ram your
computer will start swapping info from ram to your HD to effectively give
you more ram. Using a ram disk for virtual memory is just defeating the
point.
> I also thought so, but...
>
> The ramsisk is nicely created and appears in "My Computer" with
> an icon that's a chip.
>
> Then the only way *I found* in Win95 for the user to assign the
> swap file to a disk is in:
>
> Control Panel > System > Performance > Virtual memory
> > Let me specify... > Hard disk box list of available choices
>
> and this "hard disk box" only lists the hard disks, not the
> ramdisk. This limited choice of destinations for the swap file
> to hard disks is the "MS gates gotcha"... unless there is other
> way to do such an assignment, which I didn't find (yet).
>
> Bill Morrow wrote:
> >
> > JC..
> > it seems to me, without trying or reading anything, that one
> creraded, the swap file
> > can be allocated to the ramdisk..
> >
> > i.e. boot up, create ramdisk during this process, then after
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