Comments on: Faster browsing with RAM disks

By: klancy

klancy — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:07:13 +0000

Hold the boat man… all these people screaming “STUPID” and “LAME” aren’t even considering that any program you run… (pretty much ANY)… during the ENTIRE time that you’re running it, is going to run better if it’s on a ramdrive.

Now what is an OS? It’s a program.

Consider the Windows Vista can be sped up by providing a thumb drive for cache. That’s not a hack, but a FEATURE of the OS. Hmm, why and how?

Well… stuff is faster in RAM. Period. Naysayers, your arguments are uneducated and ill informed.

By: Oren Beck

Oren Beck — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:02:22 +0000

Puppy can be set to eliminate Flash Writes during a session unless they are requested during a session or upon exit. If you have no need to “save locally?” That session in theory uses *zero* flash writes.

IF you can live with the risk about work in progress losses? Mitigation’s possible. Look no further than Gmail for a conceptual answer. A Gmail session “autosaves” drafts at intervals.

So,for netbooks with internal WLAN or any “connected” machines it’s potentially a done deal.By a use of remote caching/s. Oh, you “can” write back to the local flash on exit if you want to .. But Why would you do so for 99% of your session’s data when it’s only 1% likely needing local saves.

By: Q

Sat, 02 May 2009 23:23:41 +0000

This made me think… here is an opportunity for OS innovation:
OSes should have some native support to go all out for performance.
For this topic, an OS would allow programs to create folders with a special type “cache folder” and a maximum size for it.
This would allow the OS to create a RAMdrive with enough size for all those caches.
Windows 7 is coming soon, it would be interesting to have such a thing…

By: shohug

shohug — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:05:19 +0000

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By: My Head Asplode

My Head Asplode — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:53:22 +0000

Ok, srsly.
All the fags talking about “copying OS to a ramdrive” are out of your mind retarted!

RAM drives are whipped clean every time you restart your computer.

If you moved all your OS8 files to a ramdisk, you’d have no OS.

You can’t ever EVER boot from a RAM disk. NEVER NEVER NEVER!

In theory, you could load all the system files to RAM at startup, then boot the system from that, but think about that for about ten seconds and you’ll realize why that’s a stupid redundant idea…

By: poky

poky — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:55:24 +0000

http://tinyurl.com/ramdrive
easy solution for windows : )
been using it for certain programs, last 18 months, which requier high i/o speeds : )

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By: Just4Kix

Just4Kix — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:14:32 +0000

update on the Firefox not opening issue. If you make the RamDisk invisible, add a . in front of the ram disk name. Example:

$ rm -r ~/library/caches/firefox

$mkdir /volumes/.ramdisk/firefox\ $\cache$

$ ln -s /volumes/.ramdisk/firefox\ $\cache$ ~/library/caches/firefox

By: SneakyWho_am_i

SneakyWho_am_i — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:59:46 +0000

Caching desktop applications in RAM… Hmmm, it never occurred to me that my software wasn’t already caching properly.

I do normally use this for hacks I do for little web apps (amateur things though they are) … If I have to set and get little bits of data I will often shove them somewhere in /dev/shm (normally don’t bother to consider Windows boxes)

but, hmmm, now I’m thinking “I wonder if I can do that in Windows without paying a smallhuge fee!” … I used to have some freeware lying around which let me create a ramdisk. It was awesome but I only had 32MB of RAM and soon gave that b ack to my applications to use as …. as….. well, to use the RAM as RAM. Tada!

By: chamunks

chamunks — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:59:46 +0000

WEEEEEE! RAM Harddrives http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hyperos-dram-hard-drive-block,1186.html

I realize capslock is disabled but at least it looks annoying and attention grabbing in my head.

By: Just4Kix

Just4Kix — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:56:59 +0000

Thanks g, your terminal script works! I was wondering why Firefox wouldn’t open after running those commands mentioned in the article.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:21:08 +0000

That is really cool.

By: nikhil

nikhil — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:04:42 +0000

what other advantages could creating a ramdisk have besides browsing advantages?

By: Obama

Obama — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:19:55 +0000

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