What is "Scratch Temp Space"?

[Kenazo]

Autocad 2004 lists that it needs 1GB of scratch temp space. What the heck is that and how do I set it up? Thanks.

 

[screw3d]

I think that just means you need to free up 1GB of space in your hard drive.. something like Photoshop's. I might be totally wrong though 😛

 

[Kenazo]

that's what I was assuming too, but I just need to know if I need to allocate it some how.

 

[Kappo]

No, you just need to have the space available.

 

[onelin]

scratch sounds so much cooler than swapfile.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: onelin0
scratch sounds so much cooler than swapfile.

Two different concepts. Swapfile is used by the OS to suppliment memory.
Scratch is unused disk area that a program specifically required to its own internal requirements.

 

[onelin]

just new to the terminology, although I fail to see a real distinction between an OS letting applications store temporary data in virtual memory and one of said applications allocating it's own area to store temporary data....anyways, I like that word, but even if I don't see the difference I still would never call the windows swapfile that.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: onelin0
just new to the terminology, although I fail to see a real distinction between an OS letting applications store temporary data in virtual memory and one of said applications allocating it's own area to store temporary data....anyways, I like that word, but even if I don't see the difference I still would never call the windows swapfile that.

The OS is controlling memory access/storage. When applications have requested more memory than what exists physically, the OS will unload/copy some of the memory to the swapfile. This will allow memory to be released for other applications to use/request.

An application should not use the Windows swapfile.

The application has its own distinction whether it explicitly writes to disk or stores information in memory. Information that is stored in memory by an application should be for execution only. when the memory is not longer needed, it should be released.
Data stored by the application on disk should be for some type of archival/reference purposes.

 

[onelin]

So the difference is whether an application requests to store data in memory (which windows will decide where it goes...virtual or real) or stating that it wants to use the hard drive for storing temporary information? ok, that clarifies it 🙂

I didn't mean to imply an application may try to directly use the swapfile.