[Xitami] running server on RAM drive

[Michael S. Kazarin]

Actually, the RAM drive resides in non-paged memory pool, therefore the data
it holds is never written to disk except changes to data if any are written
on an hourly schedule.

| My guesses are:
|
| Most current hard drives are faster than any network that carries other
| traffic,
|
| Disk-cache in Windows (and surely unix) will quickly fill with the
most-used
| files and deliver them at RAM speed. This is a very real effect, I
discovered
| years ago in DOS when I maxed-out the disk cache. After the first time I
| accessed a file, the next time(s) it loaded as if from RAM drive, unless I
had
| opened more than 8 megs (SmartDrv's limit) of files in the meantime.
|
| I think your RAM drive is just taking RAM away from Windows' disk cache.
And
| Windows' disk cache actually works well, and is probably at least as fast
as
| the antique code in RAMdrive.
|
| I could see a RAM drive in the case where you have rarely used files that
MUST
| load quickly. Being rarely used, they will fall out of disk cache between
| uses. But with the relative speeds of modern drives and the typical
congested
| network link, you may not be able to see the difference at the browser.
|
|  -PRR