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A RAM disk or RAM drive is a block of RAM (primary storage or volatile memory) that a computer's software is treating as if the memory were a disk drive (secondary storage)

A RAM disk or RAM drive is a block of RAM (primary storage or volatile memory) that a computer's software is treating as if the memory were a disk drive (secondary storage)

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C# code has issues with RamDisk path length

I've copied a file over to a RAM Disk, but I get an error message that doesn't make sense as the path is actually shorter than on the physical disk and is certainly less than 260 characters. Any suggestions how to get around this issue. Changing the…
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Can a 64bit vmware host be configured so that a windows server 2003 32bit client can page to ram

I have a legacy windows 2003 R2 32 bit system (client) which has been migrated to a very large vmware 64 bit host (host) with massive ram. Can the host be configured with a disk in ram that can be used as a page file by the client such that paging…
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Which memory pages are assiged to files in Linux RAM disk

I'm trying to locate exact machine memory pages that have been allocated back files which are stored in a Linux RAM disk. For example, for a process, there is /proc/pid/pagemap that tells you exactly which machine pages a process is using. I'm…
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Does executing a binary on a RAMDisk reload the executable into memory?

Let's say I have two copies of the same 10MB binary executable, A and B. If I have plenty of available memory and run ./A, my understanding is that A will be loaded into memory and run from there. This will take around 10MB of RAM to accomplish. If…
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C++ read/write - RamDisk vs RAM

I'm using Ubuntu 32 BIT. - My app need to store incoming data at RAM (because I need to do a lot of searches on the incoming data and calc somthing). - I have a need to save the data for X seconds => So I need to allocate 12GB of memory. (client…
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Imread & Imwrite do not achieve expected gains on a Ramdisk

I have written a particular image processing algorithm that makes heavy use of imwrite and imread. The following example will run simultaneously on eight Matlab sessions on a hyper-threading-enabled 6-core i7 machine. (Filenames are different for…
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bleeding-edge libraries and precompiled headers sizes

Q1: My GCC precompiled header takes up 150 mb -- yes I'm using obscure TMP libraries from Boost. Anyone have any tips of benefiting from a PCH this large ? any makefile snippets which I could use to create a ram-disk(tmpfs) or something…
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Performance scenario RAM Disk and In memory database(IMDB)?

I was just wondering, we have in memory database(IMDB) and we also have a way to put the database in a RAM Disk. So which would be faster? You valuable comments and experiences
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Issues with Android studio running from Ramdisk

I am running Android studio 0.3.2 from tmpfs(Ubuntu 13.10) mounted on /media/ramdisk/. I mount them using 'sudo sh StartRamDisk.sh' i.e. the owner and group of my android studio files loaded onto ramdisk is 'root'. When i run the AVD manager even…
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Make an ext2 filesystem out of a directory to use as ramdisk

I am trying to automatically determine the size of a ext2 ramdisk filesystem that a directory will make. What I am currently doing is: BLOCK_COUNT=`du $RAMDISK_FS_DIR| tail -1 |awk '{print $1}' dd if=/dev/zero of=ramdisk.img bs=1024…
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Use of RAM Disk in production environment to speed up application performance

My application is facing issues due to its chatty nature with database. Due to many I/O operations or database calls, it is taking time to complete a flow specialy Batch Jobs. Code optimization is going on and this process will take some time to…
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RAMDisk reliability

I was looking at the existing RAMDisk discussions ... and none seem to bring up any reliability issues. I recently started using a Dataram ramdisk for my source code and am wondering if there are any risks I should be concerned with. It did speed up…
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Use Ramdisk in linux without access file directly

I need to extract a zip file in RAM with my python script. I have searched about Ramdisk in linux and I have some experiences in using Ramdisk. It's Ok for me but it has a big problem. Everyone who access my directories can see the unzipped file…
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How to boot CoreOS with different ramdisk size

I am trying to boot CoreOS from a PXE server using ramdisk. However, no matter what size of ramdisk I specify (with ramdisk_size) CoreoOS always takes half of the memory as a ramdisk. Can anyone tell me how to specify the ramdisk size at boot?
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