From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Sun Nov 11 2001 - 18:54:13 EST
i've watched memory use with huge amounts of memory and not seen much if any
swap file use..
this sure is fun..! :-)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Emanuel Brown" <epbrown01_at_att.net>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: RAM disk
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:09:13 -0800, you wrote:
>> a RAMdisk is better for a swap file because:
>> in a notebook, running on battery, running one app or even two,
>> with little or lots of swapping going on, better to have less
>> system memory and a busier swap file in RAMdisk..
>> lower power consumption..
>
>No, no, no. (Sorry, Bill.)
>
>Of course a swapfile in RAMdisk will be faster and use less energy than a
>swapfile on a physical disk.
>
>But the swapfile is only needed if you don't have enough memory in the
first
>place! By taking away memory to make a RAMdisk, you've just increased the
>need for swapping.
>
I thought Windows always used a swap file somewhat, just that
having more RAM minimized it's use - but I haven't played with this
stuff in a couple of years, at least. Do W2K and WXP not go to disk at
all until the RAM is full?
This is weird - I was working on a cousin's 701 when it hit me: my
current laptop is 750Mhz with 320MB RAM, and my 701 was 75Mhz with
32MB! The increase in drive space is so large it isn't even funny...
Emanuel
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