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RAM Drive on t60
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:00 pm
by bigbear2007
I am about to upgrade to 2G of RAM.
My normal use uses about 1G of RAM only and I want to setup 512M RAM drive for the temp files. How do I do it ?
Thx.
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:47 am
by grahamdavis
Is this windows, if not, do you mean /tmp?
You can partiton your drive any way you want with parted, but be sure the volume you want to partition is not mounted. If you are talking about your swap space, remember, your swap space should be twice that of your amount of ram.
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:03 am
by Ken Fox
grahamdavis wrote:Is this windows, if not, do you mean /tmp?
You can partiton your drive any way you want with parted, but be sure the volume you want to partition is not mounted. If you are talking about your swap space, remember, your swap space should be twice that of your amount of ram.
I think he is talking about something quite ancient by Windows XP standards, the RAM Disk, that one found eons ago with earlier operating systems.
I've not heard of RAM Disks in a very long time. Does anyone still use them? Are they even do-able in Win XP? The last time I heard anyone speak of "RAM Disks" was in the days of DOS and maybe the earliest Windows GUI overlays on top of DOS.
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:49 pm
by bigbear2007
Yes, I mean the swap file.
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:27 pm
by laundromatt
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:29 pm
by rkawakami
It's no use trying to use your system RAM as a swap file when it could simply be made available to your application programs that are running.
Now, if you are talking about using something like a flash drive as the swap file (aka Vista's ReadyBoost) then I don't know enough about it to say that it can work under XP.
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:37 pm
by laundromatt
or, if you're going to have 2GB, then you might want to just try turning off virtual memory. that would have the same effect as using RAM to hold the swap file.
i don't know what you use your thinkpad for, but i have 1.5 GB of RAM, and that's enough for me to not have a paging file.
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:47 pm
by bigbear2007
laundromatt wrote:or, if you're going to have 2GB, then you might want to just try turning off virtual memory. that would have the same effect as using RAM to hold the swap file.
i don't know what you use your thinkpad for, but i have 1.5 GB of RAM, and that's enough for me to not have a paging file.
I know what you mean.
I upgraded from 2x512M to 1x512M + 1x1G but then I feel very itch to run dual and since the price had dropped to less than 100usd for 1G so may as well.
PS. I only use my t60 for office work.