Subject: | Re: [OM] question for Doctor Monitor, if he exists |
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From: | "C.H.Ling" <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
Date: | Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:09:20 +0800 |
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 -- _________________________________________________________________ Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/ Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/ |
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