Timeline for Is it possible to use a storage disk (such as a USB drive) as RAM?
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| Mar 19, 2015 at 20:39 | comment | added | Jamie Hanrahan | I did read the article. It is easy to devise specific workloads in which such things appear to help. Even a simple "memory optimizer" (which simply evicts as much as it can from RAM) will appear to help with the startup time of the next program you start. But to do so it kills the performance of everything else you had running, including much of the OS. Showing across-the-board performance gains with no downside is MUCH more difficult. | |
| Mar 19, 2015 at 9:20 | comment | added | Cybercartel | @JamieHanrahan:I'm not sure what is your problem. You can read the article about compcache. It uses a compressed ram-disk for the swap. In some cases it helps. | |
| Mar 19, 2015 at 9:16 | comment | added | Jamie Hanrahan | I'm not sure what "in the sense of memory-swap" means, but if you mean putting a page file on a RAM disk? That isn't even wrong. It will increase the page fault rates. Not all the additional faults will be resolved to the RAM disk (most, statistically, go to mapped files). Of those that are, yes, the PF on RAM disk will be faster than a hard drive - but NOT committing that RAM to a RAM disk, hence not incurring those additional faults at all, would be even faster. | |
| Mar 19, 2015 at 9:05 | comment | added | Cybercartel | @JamieHanrahan:I wrote RamDisk in the sense of Memory-Swap. Additionally it can be compressed:vflare.org/2009/03/ram-is-not-enough-memory-compression.html. | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 22:56 | comment | added | Jamie Hanrahan | A RAM disk is a terrible idea in almost all situations, and in EVERY "limited RAM" situation. And add-on "memory managers" almost always do more harm than good. They operate on the principle that free RAM is good. In fact, free RAM is wasted RAM. | |
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