Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use - Solved
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Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use - Solved 12 April 2018, 12:29 |
Registered: 10 months ago Posts: 14 |
Wondering if maybe it's a system I/O problem, I installed Dataram RAMDisk with a 12GB RAM disk and it loaded up immediately without issue prior to the OS booting up. It seems Dataram's software is preloading the RAM disk at boot while SoftPerfect is loading it after boot.
I don't see a lot of options in the app to determine what I could be doing wrong - does anyone have any advice?
Re: Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use 12 April 2018, 14:57 |
Admin Registered: 12 years ago Posts: 5 643 |
Here is a quote from the user manual:
QuoteIn order to create a new RAM disk, choose Disk - Add or Disk - Add Boot Disk from the main menu. The former will create a RAM disk available when a user is logged on, the latter will create a RAM disk available immediately on system startup.
Unless you have a specific reason to use a logon-time disk, we recommend to use a boot-time one. It is mounted during system boot and will usually be available immediately after logon.
A note of caution though: Windows 10 in its default configuration uses so-called hybrid boot. As a part of it, Windows saves all allocated kernel memory to the hard drive and reloads it on next boot. It does so between shutdowns, but not between reboots. This leads to another undesirable effect where even a volatile RAM disk retains its contents between shutdowns.
If you want to use images, we recommend to turning hybrid boot off, as this article explains, and using a boot-time RAM disk rather than logon-time one.
Re: Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use 13 April 2018, 11:02 |
Registered: 10 months ago Posts: 14 |
Hybrid boot / "Fast Boot" is disabled, referenced in another thread to advise another user. It's easier to disable it in the latest versions of Windows 10.
Upon starting up the computer, the system takes a significant amount of time to load my user profile with this 'boot' disk and it's the same disk I was using in the previous version.
Re: Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use 13 April 2018, 11:33 |
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Frankly I don't see how an earlier version could have worked faster. It's a 12 GB image file that takes about a minute to load, which suggests HDD reading speed about 200 MB/s. That's a great result for a magnetic plates HDD and average result for an SSD.
I guess it depends on what you use the RAM Disk for, but there is really no point in keeping temporary files or browser caches between reboots. Perhaps it makes sense to use two disks, say 2 GB for the data that needs to be preserved and 10 GB for the data that doesn't need to.
Re: Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use 13 April 2018, 12:35 |
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QuoteAndrew
but there is really no point in keeping temporary files or browser caches between reboots.
The problem is the folder structure. I'm using a 12GB .IMG file specifically for the pre-layed folder structure; Can we create nested folders in boot disks with the latest version? That would solve all my problems.
ie. T:\Folder1, T:\Folder1\Nest1, T:\Folder1\Nest2, etc.
Thank you for responding!
Re: Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use 13 April 2018, 15:54 |
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Re: Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use 14 April 2018, 02:29 |
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Re: Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use 14 April 2018, 02:34 |
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Re: Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use 14 April 2018, 12:07 |
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Re: Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use 14 April 2018, 12:51 |
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After going through my folder structure I diagnosed the problem - if the text is pasted into the text box past the boundaries the previously attached error will appear and you cannot get your folders. Sometimes.
This issue is hard to reproduce perfectly, sometimes the next line will become another folder and sometimes it will error out.
If you try to create a folder with this structure you should see the error:
1234567890\ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\12345
Re: Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use 14 April 2018, 19:38 |
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Re: Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use 15 April 2018, 11:04 |
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1234567890\ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\12345
That's just an example.
If I add that line as it is, just that line alone, I will get error code 87. The issue is between the final 4 and 5, when the text goes over the line it will cause the error meaning I can't have a folder path that is greater than 42 characters long or it will result in error code 87.
Perhaps you could allow for longer folder paths in that version as well? That would be awesome.
Re: Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use 15 April 2018, 18:02 |
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Re: Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use 16 April 2018, 00:35 |
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My preconfigured folder layout has a number of folders that go pretty deep so if I can use that it will fix everything... and it will make SoftPerfect Ramdisk the fastest at-boot RAM disk software as I don't believe any other software has the ability to deploy a folder layout in advance of the OS without using an IMG file which as you stated takes a while to load on even the fastest disks.
Re: Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use 16 April 2018, 01:57 |
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Re: Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use 16 April 2018, 16:08 |
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The solution is rather trivial: disabled word-wrapping in the folder names field. Please download and install newly released version 4.0.6 from the home page and everything should be fine now.
Re: Ram disk in v4.0.5 is very slow to load and use 17 April 2018, 09:06 |
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