IMHO, 4GB of RAMDisk cannot generate any serious benefit for LR. Sorry, Igor.
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> 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? > I can see two possibilities: > 1. LR catalog (this would probably include the previews? I am not aware > how I could have the catalog and previews on different drives, could I?) > > 2. The current photo collection. > > If it is #2, the procedure would have to be as follows: > a) From within LR move the imported collection to RAMDisk. > b) Work on it. > c) Move it back. > (This way I don't need to "find" it.) > Is there a better way of accomplishing that? > > Any other ideas? > > Igor > > PS. No, 64-bit OS is not an option at the moment. > I might do that later. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
