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Thanks Vitaly and Daniel, I'll try Cacheman
Regards JCarlos


>From: Daniel Martinez <DanM@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 15:21:37 -0800
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You still need more physical RAM to use a RAM disk scheme.&nbsp; I don't
think 8 MB's is enough.&nbsp; If you want to use the Ramdrive.sys file,
you can specify up to 32 MB's but you must have the physical memory for
this.&nbsp; The reason why you didn't notice any increase in speed is because
8 MB's of Metastock files will hardly make a noticeable difference.
<p>I used RAMDRIVE.SYS a long time ago in DOS.&nbsp; In a computer programming
class, when I was compiling a program, it took 20 minutes on a floppy.&nbsp;
When I used the RAM disk, it took 30 seconds.&nbsp; The problem with a
RAM disk is that it creates a drive letter.&nbsp; This may change some
of the drive letters on your system.&nbsp; Since I have never used a RAM
disk in Win9x, I can only guess that it would increase your CD-ROM drive
letter and use the original CD-ROM drive letter.&nbsp; However, since this
is a (possibly 16-bit) DOS driver, I don't know what the exact effects
are when using a Windows program with it.
<p>I think it would be easier just to use the Win9x cache and crank it
up to whatever maximum it is.&nbsp; There is a new version of CacheMan
at 3.8.
<br>http://www.outertech.com/english/products/cacheman/cacheman.html
<p>It's still free.&nbsp; Nevertheless, you will still need more RAM.&nbsp;
For example, my Quotes-Plus 2.1 database is about 384 MB's.&nbsp; If I
wanted to do full QP2 database searches, I would have to buy 384 MB's of
memory for these types of schemes to work.&nbsp; If you couldn't increase
the Win9x cache to 384 MB's, you could still buy a Win9x (32 bit) RAM disk
program off the Net.
<p>If you're doing a lot of large Explorations which take 18 minutes and
can afford to spend $480 on RAM, this is probably a good idea.&nbsp; With
a 500+ MHz processor, you would probably decrease your time to 2 minutes
or LESS!&nbsp; If you only do 3 or 4 Explorations a day, it's not worth
it.
<p>Daniel.
<br>&nbsp;
<p>Vitaly Larichev wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>"Jos&eacute; Carlos Duarte Areia" wrote:
<p>> Another day I read here one message that mencioned the use of a Ram
Disk to
<br>> made Explorations in Metastock with more speed.
<br>> How can I create a Ram disk to use in my explorations ?
<br>> Could someone explain step by step how to do this ?
<br>> Thanks JCarlos
<br>> ______________________________________________________
<p>Hi, it was me. However, I tried it quite a while ago, and some details
might fall through
<br>the cracks (of my memory).
<p>This is what I unearthed in my old C:\config.sys. As far as I remember,
you need to add
<br>into C:\config.sys file the following lines to create RAM drive G:
=8.192 Mb in
<br>the extended memory:
<br>DEVICE=C:\DOS\Ramdrive.sys 8192 /E
<br>LASTDRIVE=G
<br>SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:512 /P
<p>Then you copy data files you want to G: and use Metastock&nbsp; treating
G: as a regular disk
<p>Those more knowledgeable than me please check the above if I missed
something. Possibly,
<br>it was for DOS with Win 3.11. Don't know if the same commands are valid
for Win95/98.
<br>But my point was&nbsp; that there was no speed increase at all! Let
me know if I was wrong.
<p>Cheers, Vitaly</blockquote>
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From: Christian Baude <BAUDECB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Mon, 03 Jan 2000 20:38:04 -0700, Dave Nadeau <dave.nadeau@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>I just caught up with this thread on RAM Drives and wanted
>to post some results of tests I had run on my own system.

Since you have so much RAM, you should look at:

http://www.virtusoft.com/vramdir.htm

-= Chris ß =-
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Former user of TallTree Systems RAM disks, A full 4 Megs!!!!! on an
IBM PC 64k <g>.