Would this work? - Ramdrive swapfile?

[LazyLion]

let's say you have 4 or 8 Gb or RAM installed...

Is there any way to create a RAM drive that loads on boot up and have Windows use that RAM drive for its swap file?

Kinda like Vista's ready boost?

Has anyone done this?

 

[|tera|]

Sounds like an idea

Your swap file is generally only accessed when you don't have enough physical memory available. I think with 8GB RAM it's safe to say it will perform faster with just RAM and no page file

 

[LazyLion]

Sounds like an idea

Your swap file is generally only accessed when you don't have enough physical memory available. I think with 8GB RAM it's safe to say it will perform faster with just RAM and no page file

Edit: corrected. See below. Yes, you can turn off your page file.

 

[Amida]

Why do you need to create a ram drive? If you have enough memory just turn off your swap file completely.

 

[|tera|]

Tera, unfortunately there is no way to turn the swap file off in Windows. And decreasing it in size degrades system performance.

I can turn mine off. Why can't you? You just choose, no pagefile

 

[Amida]

I can turn mine off. Why can't you? You just choose, no pagefile

Maybe he's got a special version of windows

 

[SYNERGY]

"No Paging File"
It can be switched off.
XP SP3

 

[LazyLion]

lol... I have been to that settings page thousands of time... and only just saw that option now! :O

you learn something new every day. Sorry

 

[Amida]

lol... I have been to that settings page thousands of time... and only just saw that option now! :O

you learn something new every day. Sorry

That's what makes these forums such a nice place to be

 

[HavocXphere]

Switching off the page file also gives a small but measurable boost on benchmarks. Nonetheless its not a good idea to switch it off because some apps bail if there is no pagefile.

@OP: The problem is, that the ramdrive would have to be very low-level so that windows can initialize it on boot-up....so it would have to be some sort of low-level OS hack.