At 09:14 AM +1000 05/28/2005, David Elmo wrote:
> From: Fluxstringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
No doubt these Ram Disks have their uses. Since it appears you will use it
for cache management in browsing, do me a favour that no one else has done
for me yet: devise your own test to see if it has any speed advantage in
browsing. My trials, a couple of years back, showed no particular advantage
so worth having in this respect.
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For browsing I can't see a speed advantage as I would still be online
by dialup which is the most limiting factor.
Not sure what dial up has to do with it?
A few disk accesses while you're waiting for the current page's
elements to arrive via the modem isn't going to slow down the browser.
> What I was referring to before was running graphics programs from a
RAM disk. In which case on a machine with limited RAM in proportion
to the task
and very limited caching space running from RAM disk would eliminate
constant calls to the Hard disk drive.
If a machine has limited ram, how can you afford any for a strictly
unnecessary item like a ram disk then? I don't follow you.
Me either. :)
Tossing away available RAM when you're trying to run processor or
memory intensive tasks is ...
IMO the only time a RAM Disk is of any use is when you have a lot of
extra memory AND you're running a disk i/o intensive application.
eg: Having a database live in a RAM Disk.
- Dan.
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