OK, stop taking hallucinogens for a few days and it will make more sense! picture two snakes, each consuming the other's tale, are the two snakes going to gain weight (collectively)? the ram disk takes away ram, when you then use the ram disk for virtual memory you actually lose ram because of the overhead of simulating a drive with directory listings and such. this would actually decrease the available ram, nothing is free, the ram disk eats up REAL ram and can't be any bigger than real ram, the VM can't be any bigger than the ram disk, and will infact be limited to a little less than the ram you used up making the ram disk, it's a losing propotition, there is no magic. now you could use ram doubler or something like that, but that slows things down and tends to cause crashes. again, nothing is free, making a ram disk and then using it for virtual memory will not give you more ram, it will in fact slightly decrease the available ram space and slow things down greatly. you could probably do it, i don't know if the os is silly enough to let you, but just try it. if the os will allow it you'll quickly find out that it's a losing game at best.
the only point to using vm is to trick apps that don't know how to use swapping into thinking you have more ram and letting the os take care of the swapping at a substantial cost in speed. the only reason to use a ram disk is to trick an app into using ram when it was written to use disk space, again with the os handling the deception, it's faster than a hard drive, but still much slower than if the app was written to use ram instead of drive space. Philip Stortz --Begin Signature Block-- "There are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and this is not a time for remarks like that; there never is." White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. If giving up freedoms makes you feel more secure, I suggest you move to China and tell me if it really makes you feel safer, but don't ask me to give up what so many died for. Be polite, respond OFF LIST if you "simply" must. --End Signature Block-- Begin forwarded message: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sat Feb 15, 2003 5:46:16 AM America/Denver > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (G-List) > Subject: Re: RAM Disk as scratch disk > Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (G-List) > > This would not be silly or pointless. In fact, this makes more > sense > than NOT doing this. If a RAM Disk is used, then this would allow the > extra > space on the RAM Disk to be used as memory. Make sense yet? So, > still no > definitive answer, is this POSSIBLE on a Mac? > ==---------- -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
