Pagefile on ramdisk

[Thunder 0]

I have my pagefile on a 70mb ramdisk set at 25mb min and 50 mb max. Anyone else tried this and if so have they noticed any problems or improvements?

Before you ask why, just to see if I could.

[tsonta101 0]

just out of curiosity, how did you set it up? i mean how do you set a ramdisk and then tell windows to create the pagefile on it?

[Thunder 0]

I set it up to emulate a hard disk then pointed my pagefile to the drive letter I assigned to it. Was really easy. Also have my temp internet files on it.

 

From the read me:

 

AR Soft RAM Disk

Version 1.20

 

 

This document lists the steps to install the AR RAM Disk either on a Windows NT

or a Windows 2000 system. Also a short description how to configure the RAM Disk

is included in this file.

 

Driver Installation on a Windows 2000 system:

 

1. Double-click the Add/Remove Hardware Wizard applet in Control Panel.

2. Select Add/Troubleshoot a Device.

3. Select Add a new device.

4. Select No, I Want to Select the Hardware from a list.

5. Select Other Devices and then click Next.

6. Click Have Disk and point to the directory (wher you have extracted the

driver files) that contains ramdisk.inf file.

 

Driver Installation on a Windows NT system:

 

1. Right click to the ramdisk.inf file

2. Select Install

3. Reboot your system

 

Configure the RAM Disk:

 

1. Double-click the RAM Disk applet in the Control Panel.

2. Select a free drive letter on the General tab.

3. Chose your prefered RAM Disk Size on the Geometry tab.

The other settings you can configure the other disk geometies, but the

default settings will also work.

4. On the File System tab your can choose an drive label for the RAM Disk.

All other settings can be ignored for the normal operating.

 

Warning:

- Use AR Soft RAM Disk at your own risk.

- Using large amount of memory for the RAM Disk can cause problems with

other drivers or programs.

 

Working with the RAM Disk:

 

- You can work with the RAM Disk like with any other disk drive.

- Formatting the RAM Disk with any other File System is possible when you

configure the RAM Disk to emulate a local hard disk.

 

Limits:

 

- The maximum RAM Disk size depends on the physical memory installed on the

machine and on the system configuration.

- The content of the RAM Disk is lost when the RAM Disk gets unload.

- When more file exist on the RAM Disk than specified in the Maximum Root

Entries property the system report that the disk is full. To solve this problem

increase the Maximum Root Entries in the Control Applet.

[chief 0]

It's kind of redundant for that... I mean, all those memory space could have far better use for memory instead of pagefile.

 

The reason why there is a need for pagefile only when you don't have enough ram to hold the information/data in memory, hence they get swapped out to hard disk space.

 

I have 512mb ram and my pagefile is kept at 512mb (on hdd), but I don't have the experience of data being swapped to hdd.

 

My recommendation is to use Ramdisk for temporary space, like Temporary Internet File or other else use. Dont trade ram for pagefile, it's redundant.

 

 

Kel.

[cobby 0]

unless you have a gig of ram, your going to run into issues with the pagefile. You need to have a minimum of ram, or better yet 1.5 of ram for the pagefile.

 

weather you have 128 megs of ram or 512 you page to disk. and it needs this space or youll see major issues. Just ran into this on a

profession dv editing station. had to convince them that the small page was casuing the issues, and theyy increased it to the amount of ram in the pc, and all issues we resolved.

[Thunder 0]

The experiment turned out to be a flop. I never had any problems with the size of the pagefile but the ramdisk somehow disabled System Restore.