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elkinm
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Sixthofmay is apsolutely right, even with XP. I experience the same problems with the disk cache when working with large files, nowhere near 4 GB or even 1 GB but still my ram drops to 0 and as preveously mentioned, when the system needs RAM XP does not give up the cache like it is suposed to, NO it instead keeps the cache as is or makes it larger and then goes for the page file. if the page file is to small which it will always be it gives an error saying that it will enlarge the pagefile. In fact I have never seen the disk cache go down, it always gowes to above 400 MB and then still slowly goes up making usable ram almost nothig causing my slowdown. I do have it set to give cache the lowest priority but still this happens.
The RAMdisk seems like a great idea as I assume windows does not cache outside of main RAM. So basicaly, can I configure a rather small physical ram to windows (which WILL be eaten by cache) and then make the larger portion of RAM my RAMdrive with the pagefile. This theoreticaly would limit cache and still give me nearly full usage of my ram. correct me if I'm wrong. One question though, would it be possible to keep windows from forcing expantion of the pagefile. Or, can I keep it from going to the disk and making the pagefile on its own instead of using the RAMdrive, also, if I make a backup pagefile, would it be used or the one on the RAMdrive.
Thanks
The RAMdisk seems like a great idea as I assume windows does not cache outside of main RAM. So basicaly, can I configure a rather small physical ram to windows (which WILL be eaten by cache) and then make the larger portion of RAM my RAMdrive with the pagefile. This theoreticaly would limit cache and still give me nearly full usage of my ram. correct me if I'm wrong. One question though, would it be possible to keep windows from forcing expantion of the pagefile. Or, can I keep it from going to the disk and making the pagefile on its own instead of using the RAMdrive, also, if I make a backup pagefile, would it be used or the one on the RAMdrive.
Thanks