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Danish Bronco posted a comment on discussion General Discussion
Hi everyone, It's been a few months since the last version of the ImDisk Toolkit has been released. I wonder when we'll have a new version, and what it'll bring.
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Hi everyone, In my last post I alluded to the fact that when you create multiple RAM Disks with ImDisk Toolkit, settings from one RAM Disk tend to be also used for the other. For example, if I set two RAM Disks, both sharing the same size, file system and general settings, and I want one of them to host a Temp folder the old-fashioned way, and the other via a junction to ProgramData, I can't. I can have one or the other, but not both. Am I missing something? Is there a command line argument I can...
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Thanks for the tip(s)! Problem is, when you have multiple RAM disks, the GUI tends to snowball the settings of one disk onto the others (file system, size, for example). Using a .bat file solved that for me. I'm gonna try to run my script from inside the GUI, though. I've set up my RAM disk .bat file to start when I open my session, because I've got Throttlestop launching on startup (scheduled task) and it tends to reside in my Temp folder. Maybe I'll try to launch the .bat file on Windows startup...
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Hi everyone, I've used ImDisk Toolkit for a good number of years now, and oh boy, the things we take for granted! For example, I've written .bat files to create a RAM Disk on startup and install a pagefile in it. In fact, I've created two of those, and I've written the .bat file by following an example I found on a website somewhere (can't remember where, don't ask!). The thing is, I'm curious. I know what curiosity did to the cat, but I really want to know more about the syntax I use in that .bat...
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Hi everyone, I've used ImDisk Toolkit for a good number of years now, and oh boy, the things we take for granted! For example, I've created .bat files to create a RAM Disk on startup and install a pagefile in it. In fact, I've created two of those, and I've written the .bat file by following an example I found on a website somewhere (can't remember where, don't ask!). The thing is, I'm curious. I know what curiosity did to the cat, but I really want to know more about the syntax I use in that .bat...
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Also, is it safe to use the letter A, knowing that it used to be allocated to floppy drives? Even Windows 10 still has a little of MS-DOS lurking in the basement... :-)
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UPDATE: I tried that, and lo and behold, it doesn't work. If I set one RAM disk with a ProgramData junction and the other with user and system temp folders, the latter's temp folder remains empty as everything is routed through ProgramData. In other words, the settings you use on one of the RAM disk will also be used on the other, regardless of what they are. Is this normal behavior?
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Although... On reflection... Hear me out: What if I created 2 RAM disks, one with a junction with ProgramData and one where the user and system Temp folders are? Would they work independantly?
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Speaking only for myself, placing the Temp folders in the RAM disk does speed things up on my computers (both fairly recent Asus laptops) and it also saves some wear-and-tear on the SSD since all the data that would normally be written on disk is saved in the RAM instead. Indeed, all that data is gone once your reboot your PC, unless you set ImDisk Toolkit to save the content of the RAM disk to your SSD. As for programs knowing where the Temp folders are, ImDisk Toolkit changes the path of the Temp...
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OK thanks! I don't really understand the difference between the two options, other than that they point at different directories.
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Hi everyone, Every time I set up a RAM disk using ImDisk Toolkit, I wonder what's the best option when it comes to the Temp folders, between placing both user's and system's in the RAM disk or use a junction from ProgramData to the RAM disk. What are the pros and cons of both options?
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Hi everyone, I use ImDisk on a variety of PCs and I seem to notice a better stability when it's installed on a machine that relies on dual-channel RAM vs a single-channel one. Is it my imagination? Is there a technical reason that could explain why ImDIsk would work better on PCs with dual-channel RAM?
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Same here, so a big thank you from me too!
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Thanks, between the time I replied this morning and tonight, the page layout has changed and the "Create topic" button is back. Thanks for the tip on how to hide the RAM disks too!
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Hi, I'd like to post a question (namely, how to hide a RAM disk in Windows Explorer) but the button to post a new topic is gone. Is that normal, or am I in trouble?
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Hi, Discussions seem to be closed at the moment, but I have a somewhat related question: what are the file systems supported by ImDisk? Is ReFS supported, if only for testing purposes?
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Have you try to split the operation into two different steps, one to mount the drives, and the other to create a pagefile on them? That's what I do. I have created one scheduled task that creates a RAM drive, and another that installs the pagefile on it. Step 1: imdisk -a -s 4095M -m P: -p "/fs:fat /q /y" Step 2: swapadd P:\pagefile.sys 1024M 4095M
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Sorry to piggyback on your discussion, but I can't put my hands on a fresh copy of swapadd. The site that was hosting ImDisk utilities is down, it seems, or maybe it has moved somewhere else and I can't find it. Can you help?
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For the record, I played with block sizes a little bit, and found out that I could set the size of the RAM disk at 512MB in FAT32 if I chose blocks of about 1MB in size. (I think; right now my RAM disk is set in FAT and is working fine so I'll leave it that way.)
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For the record, I played with block sizes a little bit, and found out that I could set the size of the RAM disk at 512MB in FAT32 if I chose blocks of about MB in size. (I think; right now my RAM disk is set in FAT and is working fine so I'll leave it that way.)
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OK. If I set memory blocks to default size, then it shouldn't be an issue, even if more blocks are written that aren't entirely used up, right? In my case, the RAM disk was set to 6172MB with default size blocks, and though I had several YouTube tabs open in Firefox, the videos weren't loading, or even already loaded in memory. This message often appears when the brower window is opened in the foreground and the program has been idling for a few minutes. At first I thought it was a bad cache parameter...
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Oh, OK, I figured there must be a good reason for that, but I just learned something. Thanks!
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Hi again, Every time I want to create a FAT32-formatted RAM disk with ImDisk with dynamic allocation, I have to set its size to something over 4100 MB, or thereabout. Such limitation doesn't apply for other file systems. Is there a technical reason to this?
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Hi everyone, I still encounter issues with RamDyn.exe using up more and more RAM over time, especially if the RAM disk size has been set to a hefty number, like 4GB or more; at some point, RAM usage becomes so high that I get the infamous "Not enough space on... Some data will be lost". While I appreciate the warning, I wonder if there's a way to curb RamDyn.exe's enthusiasm. Other than rebooting the PC, I mean.
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Hi everyone, I suppose the title of this topic is pretty self-explanatory, but just in case: the latest version of the ImDisk Toolkit was released in late August 2022. Is there a new version brewing, that could better accomodate Windows 11's quirks and peculiarities when it comes to memory management?
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I finally got to the bottom of it... And it wasn't what I expected at all... It turns out the error message wasn't triggered by ImDisk, but by the fact that the disk cache in Firefox had a hard ceiling at 256 MB, was set on the RAM disk, and was easily maxed out when I had several YouTube tabs open at the same time. I changed a few settings in Firefox's cache management section in about:config, and everything's back to normal. French shrug emoji *
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I already had MMAgent enabled, but I see you point: Since a pagefile is supposed to be a resting place for data that was sitting in RAM, creating one in the RAM is akin to shooting yourself in the foot. However, I don't have a system disk pagefile by choice, even on a recent PC like my Asus that has a PCIe SSD, because I want to limit reads and writes as much as possible, so I thought creating a pagefile in the RAM disk would allow Windows (and some programs that just won't work or install properly...
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It just happened, and in all fairness, I had half a dozen tabs open in Firefox, four of them with YouTube videos caching and/or playing, but the "not enough space" message related to my other RAM disk (R:) where Temp and Firefox cache folders are stored, so I presume it's the combination of the activity on both RAM disks that caused the incident. Still, I think there's something wrong with the way a pagefile on a RAM disk is managed by Windows, or ImDisk, or both. Ideas, anyone?
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Hi again, I've tried to set a pagefile in a RAM disk using ImDisk, but I'm not completely satisfied with the result. However, maybe I just don't understand how it really works. After a few hours of use, the pagefile gets filled up to the limit I've set, and it doesn't seem to release any RAM, even after closing programmes. Is it an issue with Windows's memory management, is there a file system swapadd works best with, or is it just normal? It seems to me that if I just let Windows manage a pagefile...
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Hi again, I've tried to set a pagefile in a RAM disk using ImDisk, but I'm not completely satisfied with the result. However, maybe I just don't understand how it really works. After a few hours of use, the pagefile gets filled up to the limit I've set, and it doesn't seem to release any RAM, even after closing programmes. Is it an issue with Windows's memory management, is there a file system swapadd works best with, or is it just normal? It seems to me that if I just let Windows manage a pagefile...
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Thanks for fixing the image insert, and yeah, nothing to write home about, clearly. I've settled for a 6 GB FAT32 RAM disk because Firefox seems a bit faster that way, but could just be my imagination... :-)
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OK, I did just that, with Power management set on High Performance on an Asus VivoBook (10th Gen Core i3 - 8 GB of DDR4 RAM @ 2667MHz); I had to set the FAT disk at 4095 MB because that's the limit, apparently. Top row, left to right: FAT 32 - FAT Bottom row, left to right: NTFS - exFAT https://ibb.co/vXBQkvh (couldn't insert the image directly in this reply, sorry)
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Hi and thanks for replying so fast! I've read an article where those file systems were compared with relation to a removable device, and NTFS was the "slowest", but by a small margin. I haven't had the time to benchmark the different file systems on a RAM disk yet, but I'll try and post the results here. Bon dimanche !
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I had the same "issue" until I noticed I had left that box checked... :-)
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Hi everyone, I'm a long-time ImDisk user, both at home and at work, but I've always wondered what was the best file system to use on a Win64 PC when I want to place all Temp directories in the RAM disk, along with Firefox's disk cache. I've looked it up online, and it seems that FAT is supposed to be faster than FAT 32, which in turn is supposedly faster than exFAT, which is rumored to be faster than NTFS. However, Windows 11 seems to favor NTFS when it comes to speedy read and write onto a RAM disk,...
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Hi everyone, I'm a long-time ImDisk user, both at home and at work, but I've always wondered what was the best file system to use on a Win64 PC when I want to place all Temp directories in the RAM disk, along with Firefox's disk cache. I've looked it up online, and it seems that FAT is supposed to be faster than FAT 32, which in turn is supposedly faster than exFAT, which is rumored to be faster than NTFS. However, Windows 11 seems to favor NTFS when it comes to speedy read and write onto a RAM disk,...
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Sorry, I forgot to answer your question about Windows Server and Linux Lite not being the best of roommates: Truth is, I posted a question on the LL forum a few days ago, and it's been deleted, apparently. Windows Server is based on Windows 10 core, with server functionalities, obvisously, so I don't see how it could be a factor here, but I might be wrong. Fast startup is disabled on the server, so every boot is a cold boot. (I usually hibernate the machine at night, though.)
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File sent. As I said, I haven't done anything so far, except modify the timeout in the boot manager menu because, well 30 seconds is a long time... :-)
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Hi Dave, and thanks for taking the time! I chose Linux Lite over Ubuntu because it really is easy on old hardware, and my laptop is almost ten years-old, plus it's also very easy to configure, and I like the general look and feel of it, especially when compared to what Canonical has done to the Gnome desktop, but that's just my opinion. From what I understand, grub2win is a boot manager, akin to rEFInd for EFI machines, right? I use rEFInd on a 2006 MacBook Pro that's stuck with 32-bit OSes because...
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Hi everyone, It's a bit unusual for me to send an email to post a question on a forum, but hey, first time for everything, right? Anyway, as I mentioned in the Subject line, I'd like to use grub2win to install Linux Lite in dual-boot with my current OS (Windows Server 2019) on a 2011 Lenovo laptop I use for work (I'm a translator). I don't want to install LL the "regular" way, i.e. by letting grub supersede the Windows bootloader, because I've been down this road more than twice, as the Sheryl Crow...
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