Well, I wouldn't call the difference BIG, but it does have a noticable effect when back and forward-paging. I would say the difference in loading pages is negligable, but I tried it since I have 320mb of RAM to play around with and don't do any intensive work on the Mac. My setup is a 2 gig hard drive with 2 partitions, one at 500mb at the beginning of the drive for virtual memory and the rest of the drive for the system and files. That works just as well and the 500mb partition helps keep fragmenting to a minimum, though I do find that the RAM disk works slightly better when hitting the back or forward button. I use the 7300 Mac primarily for email and web browsing and my much-more-powerful homemade PC running Mandrake Linux 9.1 for burning cd's, scanning photos, etc.. I would imagine the cache in the RAM disk would work better in a Mac with faster, more powerful memory, say DDR instead of SDRAM memory, knowwhatImean? ................................Mike T.
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Elmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 7:39 PM Subject: Re: Best Browser? > I tried this once but could not tell much difference (on my 56K dial up - > though this should not make any difference at all)? Mike T, you can see a > difference in speed between access to cached pages in RAM and access to a > cache on a HD? On my machine both seemed just so instant. I'd be interested > in any other very carefully observed practical benefit (not just the saving > of one's HD) of a ramdisk uninfluenced by the theoretical benefits. Quite > often, one seems not to be able to go back and forth because the web page > itself seems to code to stop this (often happens with ebay for example). > > > From: "Mike T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Best Browser? > > Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:36:57 -0500 > > > > I've got a stock 7300/180/2gig/384mb ram and use IE 5 ... and recently tried > > the "cache-in-the-ramdisk" trick. Very nice, backpages and forwards almost > > instantly with my cable connection. .......Mike T. > > > -- > PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
