[ros-dev] Guess who's back

[Richard Campbell]

ACTUALLY if you have the page file disabled it causes compatibility 
problems with apps.  Windows is DESIGNED to have a page file.  So rather 
than keeping a page file on disk...create it on a RAMDrive and you keep 
apps happy and windows happy.

Richard

Phillip Susi wrote:

> Usually people who want one seem to want it so they can put the 
> pagefile on a ramdisk, which is just silly.  Better to explain to them 
> why that's a silly idea then they won't want a ramdisk anymore ;)
>
>
> Steven Edwards wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> --- Phillip Susi <psusi at cfl.rr.com> wrote:  
>>
>>> Are you talking about being able to create usable ram disks at 
>>> runtime and use them for general file storage instead of holding the 
>>> system volume?  I don't really see any use for ram disks other than 
>>> holding the system volume so the media used to boot the system can 
>>> be removed.   
>>
>>
>> Yes thats the idea. We tend to get requests for one every so often 
>> though I don't know what people
>> use them for. There is a example driver with source code on 
>> support.microsoft.com that I always
>> point people to.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Steven
>>
>>
>>
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