Tue Sep 3 13:30:58 EDT 2013
John Francis wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 11:54:46AM -0400, Igor Roshchin wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > By virtues of various mishaps and troubles, my laptop ended up
> > having 8GB of RAM.
> > However, it has win7-32bit system, which without special hacks cannot
> > address more than just under 4Gb of RAM.
> >
> > Those hacks while working for some setups, seem to be having problems
> > with the HD graphics drivers for Win7 from Intel (and my graphics card
> > is from Intel).
> > http://wj32.org/wp/2011/02/23/pae-patch-updated-for-windows-7-sp1/
> > (and there are couple of others).
> >
> > So, the alternative way of using that extra memory is to create a
> > vritual drive in the memory.
> > One example would be RAMDisk:
> > http://memory.dataram.com/support/ramdisk-support-center/ramdisk-product-support-faq
> >
> > This way, I could have 4GB RAMdisk partition, which presumably is
> > about
> > 10 time faster than the SSD I have (~5000 MB/s vs ~400-500 MB/s)
> > So, my question is: if I wanted to speed up LR on this laptop,
> > what should I put on that RAMdisk partition?
>
>
> Note carefully the following section of the FAQ you reference above:
>
> I don't want to lose my data on the RAMDisk, so what must I do?
>
> In the 'Load and Save' tab, check the box entitled 'Save Disk
> Image on Shutdown'. Also check the 'AutoSave' box, selecting
> the backup interval that meets your needs. Your data will be
> written to the hard drive for safe keeping. Remember, when
> power is removed from RAM memory, the data is lost.
>
> Bear that in mind when you consider what you might want to put there.
>
Thank you, John,
I am obviously aware of that.
All the files will be either copied over by the software, or I'd have to
copy them by hand.
Tue Sep 3 12:14:07 EDT 2013
John johnsessoms wrote:
> I don't know about Lightroom, but if it was Photoshop, I'd put the
> scratch disk (Adobe's swap file?) there. Does Lightroom use a scratch
> disk like Photoshop does?
>
> I'm pretty sure whatever you have there will have to be loaded from the
> physical disk every time the laptop is started up.
>
> And even if you do go to a 64-bit OS in the future, you might still not
> get all of your RAM. I have a Toshiba(4GB max installable RAM) that
> could only "see" 3.5GB with the original 32 bit Vista pre-load. With
> 64-bit Windoze 7 it only sees 3.0GB - the rest is taken by the video
> subsystem.
>
> Basically I lost the use of an additional .5GB by switching to 64-bit
> Windoze.
>
> Toshiba's tech support is even more USELESS than is Microsoft's.
>
Yes, I've seen reports similar to yours about pecularities of 64-bit
Windows.
(BTW, I recommend searching http://sevenforums.com for a solution for
you problem, if you haven't done so yet.)
Igor
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