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| 39437 | 2002-03-16 12:07:00 | Anyone any ideas on how to run progs in a Ram Drive. The only idea I've had, is to do a fresh install to the RD and copy it to the HD and call it up in the autoexec.bat file at startup. I would try this but have mislayed my DOS book.( I need all the help I can get in DOS) A quick search hasn't turned up anything relevant, but I did come across an old site for servers that said they had a Ram Drive based product that increased Windows performance by loading the whole OS, a 266Mhz was supposed to perform like a 700Mhz!! | Guest (0) | ||
| 39438 | 2002-03-16 12:16:00 | I did a bit of digging into running ramdrives a while ago as I wanted to install 2 gigs of ram and use 1 and a half gigs as a ramdrive for games to install to with the rest of the 'ramdrive' space left over from the game install devoted to the swap file. There would be 500mb of normal ram available to the system which is more than enough for most games. It seemed to me this would be a very fast way to run a game. Anyhow the conclusion I came to about loading the program to the ramdrive was that using something like 'Ghost' (I think Nortons own it now) and saving that 'Ghost' image of the ramdrive contents to your hardrive to load at startup after the ramdrive sets itself up (using a script) seemed the most elegant and reliable way to go about it. Wastes a bit of harddrive space but hey drive space is cheap! So's ram for that matter. Theres probably a lot easier way but the above should work fine. All that lovely speed slobber slobber :_)) |
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| 39439 | 2002-03-16 22:13:00 | Yes, it seem to offer all sorts of possibilities, but mainly MORE SPEED(cheaply),slobber,slobber also. | Guest (0) | ||
| 39440 | 2002-03-17 00:54:00 | http://www.cenatek.com/ Make a excellent ramdrive program. Can set aside up to a 2gig drive that can save its image to a harddrive on shutdown and reload on startup well worth looking into. The demo version is good for 100 uses ==Orac== |
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| 39441 | 2002-03-17 03:44:00 | This is an old idea: it was a magnificent speed improver on a single floppy PC. The first ones used the space between the DOS 640kB and 1MB, usually just to hold COMMAND.COM and a small TEMP directory. Command.com was reloaded after many programmes had run, so it often saved a disk swap as well as being faster than floppy drive speed. As memeory became cheaper, and bigger, people produced better RAM drives. (You can still find some in the Simtel archive). The notes for a DOS based browser for small computers (Arachne) advise using a ram drive to keep a compressed version of the browser in a ram drive if you have a 'lot' of memory (by which they mean over 2MB). These days, with much faster drives and caching, there is probably not much speed improvement. The OS *should* give most if not all of the theoretical improvements available from a RAM drive. It should also be safer. Anything stored in the RAM is lost if computer power is lost or the OS crashes. Cached disk output files are usually written out at intervals. With the very fast CPUs, you could possibly gain some speed with an EXE compression tool. The idea is that any EXE file can be compressed, not to save disk space, but to reduce the loading time for programmes. |
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| 39442 | 2002-03-17 04:34:00 | Thanks Orac and Graham, Orac I did reply earlier to your post but it seems to have got lost? Graham I'll definatly like to try your COMMAND.COM tweake, was there any instructions on how to do it? Maybe it tells you how to load the browser also?? I only have an old K6-266 but she hums along very nicely for most purposes as I have made a hobby of optimising and keeping it as clean as possible. |
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