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From: Homer J. Simpson on 7 Mar 2006 16:37 I don't know anything about the OP's needs, but a few years back, I had a machine with 1GB RAM (more than I needed at the time; typically usage peaked at maybe 700MB), and so I set aside 128MB as a ramdrive and compiled Visual Studio 6 projects onto that. I didn't care about keeping the SBRs/OBJs generated, and generating those files in memory as opposed to the hard drive was tremendously faster. While I agree with most respondants' reaction that there is definitely a point where taking memory *away* from the system cache to allocate to a ramdrive is counterproductive, there are definitely instances where having a small ramdrive is beneficial. You just have to tweak the amount allocated until data doesn't start getting paged to disk because available memory has been reduced...
From: Admiral Q on 7 Mar 2006 19:10
I can't see a reason why you would need one with XP or 2k3, but if you insist, I've heard this one created for Win2k Pro should work: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257405/en-us -- Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service! Google is your friend! http://www.google.com "Clay" <Clay(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:787F0A87-3443-4C2F-80D7-2B195D232485(a)microsoft.com... > How do I set up a RAMDRIVE in WindowsXP? I'm familiar with the setup in > Windows 98 but is there a different XP requirement for setting up a > ramdrive? > > I tried using my familiar command from W98 in CONFIG.NT in XP but the > ramdrive didn't set up. |