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Xander

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This RAMdisk is in host's real RAM. That is why there is no pci-express or other bus I/O involved. The delay of the memory is thus well reflected in the CPU utilization chart.

p.s. It's cheaper to buy MB that supports big memory - from 8Gb to 128Gb, and to buy the memory - than it is to buy I/O bus connected physical RAM devices.

On 50% probability, my next server will have about 64-128Gb RAM. I'll program a special-purpose web crawler, content analysis engine and search engine. I'll start in in a year or year and a half.

Okay you can emulate a RAMDisk in software? Is this just a virtualisation thing?

(I'm interested because I DO run 8Gb of RAM.. your words....they interest me :D I'm thinking of tweaking my computer again.... though that's usually a terrible idea!!!)
 

Ghost of the dead horse

filling some space
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I use RAMDisk 9.0 plus by Superspeed LLC. I don't remember what it cost - but it was one of the only software RAMdisks that would run
1) on x64 machine
2) on a windows server
3) not have ridiculously limited space

The RAM is in real RAM, 1:1. No caching or paging involved.

But, I did a few tests.. it seems that keeping VM in SSD is faster, because then the host RAM can be dynamically used for cache in files OTHER than those in the RAMdrive. I think it can actually be hard to find useful uses for RAMDrive, apart from testing, and keeping files you _want_ to be deleted fast.

Encrypting/decrypting and destroying the password would do the same effect as deleting files, but at a speed cost.
 

Xander

Lex Parsimoniae
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I use RAMDisk 9.0 plus by Superspeed LLC. I don't remember what it cost - but it was one of the only software RAMdisks that would run
1) on x64 machine
2) on a windows server
3) not have ridiculously limited space

The RAM is in real RAM, 1:1. No caching or paging involved.

But, I did a few tests.. it seems that keeping VM in SSD is faster, because then the host RAM can be dynamically used for cache in files OTHER than those in the RAMdrive. I think it can actually be hard to find useful uses for RAMDrive, apart from testing, and keeping files you _want_ to be deleted fast.

Encrypting/decrypting and destroying the password would do the same effect as deleting files, but at a speed cost.
It says free trial... FREE!!

It also says Microsoft so you know it's a short trial but meh...
 

nanook

a scream in a vortex
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i love the color scheme of my total commander :yes:



and my external harddrive is "integral" :jew:

 

Alwar

The Architect
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