anyone put swap file on a software ram disk?

[her34]

is it safe to do this? is it effective? is it okay to reboot and have the swap file deleted?

winxp

 

[AnonymouseUser]

well, um, wow

/head

 

[Netopia]

Ok... think about the logic here....

You want to use up some of your RAM to make an area to use as virtual memory when you run out of RAM... which will now happen faster because you've got less to use... Since you don't actually have any more physical RAM, you're still going to end up going out to the hard drive, just more often and with less efficient use of the memory you do have.

Bad idea....

 

[spyordie007]

first off it's not a swap file. it's a paging file and there are some pretty big differances here.

secondly just let windows manage memory! trying to mess with that (especially trying to stick it on a RAM disk) is a surefire way to get yourself into trouble.

 

[nweaver]

one problem is that windows uses the page file to dump crash information too, no physical disk, no crash info.

 

[Nothinman]

is it safe to do this? is it effective? is it okay to reboot and have the swap file deleted?

Read the chapter on memory management in the book Inside Windows, then look at this question again.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: her34
is it safe to do this? is it effective? is it okay to reboot and have the swap file deleted?

winxp

yes, no, yes.