ramdisking in Win2k pro?

I have 768mb of ram in my Win2k pro system, is there a way to create a ramdisk to run applications or possibly tweak out my box so swap is actually run off of a ramdisk? thanks, gimp

Windows Hardware 9627 This topic was started by gimp, 2001-01-07 12:24

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gimp

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#36669

2001-01-07 13:24

I have 768mb of ram in my Win2k pro system, is there a way to create a ramdisk to run applications or possibly tweak out my box so swap is actually run off of a ramdisk?

thanks,

gimp

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CUViper

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#36670

2001-01-07 16:16

that's pointless.... win2k won't use the swap space until you are out of physical memory anyway....

DosFreak

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#36671

2001-01-07 16:48

Wrong. Windows 2000 pages out least used data in memory. Kernel data is automatically paged unless specified otherwise. Even then it' still paged. Windows 2000 ALWAYS uses the page file no matter how much physical memory you have.

Ge0ph

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#36672

2001-01-07 18:04

I use RamDiskNT from http://www.jlajoie.com/ramdskNT/ and it has done wonders for my system. It will let you set up a drive formated as NTFS and then set you page file on that ramdisk. Combined with my dual system it is sweet.

Svision

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#36673

2001-01-08 06:32

i've done some searching on this before and ended up using Microsoft's ramdisk driver
(search their support database for ramdisk) which is free and quite configurable through registry.

hope this helps.