Re: [OM] question for Doctor Monitor, if he exists

[C.H.Ling]

Try to load a 200MB file to PS and do some editing you will know how a 
RAMDISK improves the speed. SSD is too expensive at the moment and it is 
still very slow when compared to RAMDISK.

C.H.Ling

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Lazzari"


> >
>> In fact, I don't even understand if the 3GB that is reported is a system 
>> wide limit or an application limit.
> The 3gb limit is the 32bit limit of the OS. Do the math and you come up
> with something north of 3gb, maybe 3.5gb. Applications can use what's
> left over after system overhead. In practice I don't think the boot.ini
> switch will give you 3.5gb. I am showing 3.2gb. This is why I'm
> skeptical that a RAMdisk is practical with a 32bit system but I haven't
> tried it either. Windows is pretty good at memory management these days.
> If you want more RAM than that go to a 64bit OS and the theoretical
> limit is in the Tb range I think.  One could set up a RAMdisk and still
> leave plenty for the OS. Better yet just get a small SSD for the scratch
> file (and Win7).
>
> In my old 8086 DOS used an upper memory block to page data out to a
> physically huge RAMbank which was installed in a MB slot. This was very
> useful in the days when programs ran from 5" floppies. I could load the
> entire program on the RAMdisk and skip the floppy disk except for data
> backup. Everything on the RAMbank vanished when the power went off.
>
> Mike

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