Re: [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(a)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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