RAM use?

[Anonymous]

I have been thinking again, of how Allen might use that 2g of memory. Could
that 2G of memory be used as a "ran Drive"? Can ram drives be created using
Window OS? As I remember it, you could page to a ram drive, which would be
faster then paging to a hardrive. Maybe 2G would not be enough space to be
of value. Bob

[Anonymous]

Bob,

If you could work it so that after IV boots up, the project and all its data you
select to work on is copied over into the RAM drive. You would then be working
at ram speed. When you save you would need to mirror the data to the hard drive
and ram drive. If you crash, any un-saved data is then floating in electronic
wasteland....

Furthermore, on system boot perhaps the IV installation files could be copied to
the RAM drive (assuming you have heaps and that you change drive letters around
to maintain the original installation environments) then you would be working at
optimal system speed......

Be worth playing around with and perhaps coming up with a spec.

Kent Mathews

Bob Johnson wrote:

> I have been thinking again, of how Allen might use that 2g of memory. Could
> that 2G of memory be used as a "ran Drive"? Can ram drives be created using
> Window OS? As I remember it, you could page to a ram drive, which would be
> faster then paging to a hardrive. Maybe 2G would not be enough space to be
> of value. Bob

[Anonymous]

Bob,
Also (more along the lines as to your post)
You can set up the OS not to make use of a page file, then the RAM will be used for
this purpose giving you a performance hit. If you go over the ram resource
available the machine will simply crash with loss of data.

Kent Mathews