Nice little windows utility - AR RAM Disk.
If you develop software, you probably have steps in your build process where you create a lot of temporary files. (For example, a typical Ant build process will compile a lot of Java into class files, then put them together into a jar file). Creating all these transient files would be quicker on a RAM disk, and would fragment your disk less.
If, that is, you have the RAM for it.
Via John Lipsky.
Posted to Software by Simon Brunning at July 23, 2003 02:03 PMI can't get this to allocate more that it's default value (1 MB of RAM disk). Very strange.
Posted by: Mathias Bogaert on July 23, 2003 05:47 PMYou need to uninstall AR Ramdisc then restart and reinstall. On the last screen of the install page where there are two check boxes, Configure and Restart computer, uncheck the restart box then finish. You then go to configuration set it to automatic and emulate a local hard disc. You should then be able to set the size of the ramdisc to whatever size you like. You then need to restart. All should be ok now, but make sure you turn off system restore on the ramdisc if applicable.
Posted by: Evan on August 19, 2003 01:14 PMYou need to uninstall AR Ramdisc then restart and reinstall. On the last screen of the install page where there are two check boxes, Configure and Restart computer, uncheck the restart box then finish. You then go to configuration set it to automatic and emulate a local hard disc. You should then be able to set the size of the ramdisc to whatever size you like. You then need to restart. All should be ok now, but make sure you turn off system restore on the ramdisc if applicable.
Posted by: Evan on August 19, 2003 01:14 PMI wrote my own RAM-Drive program for Windows 9x. If anyone is intrested it is available at http://home.comcast.net/~sessions9/RAM-Drive.html
Posted by: Stephen Sessions on August 25, 2003 05:28 AMI just described the setup where put the Ant build output directory on a RAM disk:
http://blog.mousefeed.com/2007/12/faster-build-compilation-with-ram-disk.html
This makes the build 25% faster.