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john3850

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Would it be a waste of time to use a RAM disk for temporary Web files.

When I used MSIE 8 and 9 for the net there temp files always lead to a more
fragmented drive.


Then I set IE to empty the temp internet files folder when browser is closed was better but may slow down things.


Now I am using a RAM disk for temporary Web files which saves and loads the info on start up.

http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk
 
It may have a minor affect, but it's largely pointless and the fragmentation caused by the cache shouldn't be an issue either unless you've got an incredibly slow drive or other filesystem issues.
 
Your saying its a waste of time on a decent pc.
I didnt notice much difference the first day but I will leave it on for few more days.
What I wont do is put it on my i7 with a ssd.
thanks
 
If you consider a decent PC anything with like 1G of memory ore more; so I would say it's a waste of time on virtually any PC unless you're extremely overcommitting the thing so that its general performance is bad.
 
Nothinman said:
If you consider a decent PC anything with like 1G of memory ore more; so I would say it's a waste of time on virtually any PC unless you're extremely overcommitting the thing so that its general performance is bad.
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I agree with that wholeheartedly. Many times people have all sorts of things running in the background, anti-virus software, weather alerts, instant messaging, you name it, they have it running. Then they wonder why their computer is slow.
 
Got 8gigs of memory and win7-64 hardly uses more then 25% of it.
I thought this ramdisk might speed up some of the slow loading websites but it doesnt.
I guess its like downloads and it all depends on the speed of the site your connecting to.
The last time I used a ramdisk was win 3.1 to regain memory.
Havnt used anti-virus software or firewalls in 10 years cause they slows down my net speed tests.
 
It really depends on how the software will use it,,,
I use alot of older imaging software that doesnt recognise anything over 2 Gigs of memory and will page out the rest (IE PS7 and two other programs)
I set up a 1.5Gig scratch ramdrive for them and it helps allot.
 
The pc with the ramdisk connects with router and gets slower connections to web.
I need to use pc with ramdisk more to see what difference it realy makes.
 
john3850 said:
Got 8gigs of memory and win7-64 hardly uses more then 25% of it.
I thought this ramdisk might speed up some of the slow loading websites but it doesnt.
I guess its like downloads and it all depends on the speed of the site your connecting to.
The last time I used a ramdisk was win 3.1 to regain memory.
Havnt used anti-virus software or firewalls in 10 years cause they slows down my net speed tests.
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The memory should be getting used, just not directly by applications. For instance, taskmgr on my Win7 notebook here says I've got ~2.4G used but right below that it says there's ~3.5G cached.
 
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