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Use a RAM disk to speed browsing on slower Macs
Authored by: allanmarcus on Aug 30, '04 01:53:41PM

I remember when I was young. Apple had just come out with the original Apple I. Man, I am old.

Once thing to remember is that unless "pinned", the RAM disk will just get swapped with all the other memory. Once the RAM disk is fulled loaded into member, there wont be any disk activity associated with the RAM disc. However, if there are many other demands on RAM at the time the RAM disc is being used, well, you will lose all your speed gains.



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Use a RAM disk to speed browsing on slower Macs
Authored by: blackos on Aug 30, '04 03:51:43PM

You're worried about speed on an older mac? I am running 10.3.5 on a G3 266 Beige (thanks XpostFacto) ; it's fast enough for what I need, but it's always good to see attempts at tweaking performance :)



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