Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:35:27 -0500, Patok
wrote:

Paul wrote:
I'm using
mine as a Page File, as a test :-)
This is actually the most sensible usage for the Ramdisk in XP32, come to
think of it. That way, you effectively use the entire memory for... memory! Heh.
Please report back if there are any problems with such usage. From the
description of how Ramdisk works (in the PDF manual), it should be fine, but who
knows.

Actually, it makes no sense to use a RAM disk as a page file. Using
RAM as a page file takes RAM away from Windows use. Windows having
less RAM means that it will use the page file more. So you take the
RAM away from RAM with one hand and give it back with the other. It's
like borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. You achieve nothing, but you
incur the extra overhead of the RAM disk.

Actually, you didn't read carefully enough. We're talking about using the
memory above 4GB for a ram disk, on a XP32 system that can't normally access
memory above 4GB. That way, we effectively increase the XP memory to whatever
memory the machine actually has.
You would have a point for XP64, or for a machine with less than 4GB total
memory, but we're not talking about that.

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