Putting a Ramdisk is just a waste of ram that could otherwise be assigned to a real task. Swapfile on ramdisk is even more pointless than a physical swapfile on the disk, as its rarely actually used, windows just uses the swapfile to create the virtual memory pool. Readyboost on a ramdisk is even more strange.
I did toy with the idea of getting an I-drive ones (one of those battery backup up memory disks), but in the end decided against it. Just have a good amount of physical ram, and leave the swapfile available so windows can give generous virtual memory pools to each application.
By using phyiscal ram for a ramdisk, your just increaseing the odds that ram will run out and the application will need to swap. Even if your swapfile is in ram, its still an extra process to swap it from the ramdisk ram, to the applications physical ram location.
Unless Im much mistaken the main point of readyboost is to decrease boot times. If your booting from an SSD, including readyboost on the same SSD wont help at all. If your readyboost is in a ramdrive, without a battery backup, it wont even be there on bootup so thats pretty pointless. The idea of readyboost, is if you have a regular hard drive, and a small SSD, windows can copy some of its more commonly used files to the SSD, to reduce boot times.
PS. 4GB -> 6GB also gives a noticeable improvement in performance For 64bit windows.
I did toy with the idea of getting an I-drive ones (one of those battery backup up memory disks), but in the end decided against it. Just have a good amount of physical ram, and leave the swapfile available so windows can give generous virtual memory pools to each application.
By using phyiscal ram for a ramdisk, your just increaseing the odds that ram will run out and the application will need to swap. Even if your swapfile is in ram, its still an extra process to swap it from the ramdisk ram, to the applications physical ram location.
Unless Im much mistaken the main point of readyboost is to decrease boot times. If your booting from an SSD, including readyboost on the same SSD wont help at all. If your readyboost is in a ramdrive, without a battery backup, it wont even be there on bootup so thats pretty pointless. The idea of readyboost, is if you have a regular hard drive, and a small SSD, windows can copy some of its more commonly used files to the SSD, to reduce boot times.
PS. 4GB -> 6GB also gives a noticeable improvement in performance For 64bit windows.
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