>there are people on /g/ who don't put their multiple GB of spare RAM to the most useful thing you possibly could
But, /g/ wouldn't be stupid enough to just leave it there doing nothing, would it?
Would it?
>>53930214
>having more than 2GBs of RAM
>>53930214
>falling for ram meme
>trying to undo it by falling for another meme
When will you learn?
What are you even going to put on your ramdisk? Your pagefile? Come on, there's no legitimate reason to use ramdisk on a normal computer.
>>53932227
Write an Atom-emulator:
>write a 500MB flle on ramdisk
>launch sublime
>>53932227
Downloads, temporary files you don't want to keep, youtube-dls, source tarballs you're going to compile from and other installers.
>>53932227
You put the browser on it. Whole thing. It makes Chrome retard-fast
doesn't windows already do this fucking shit?
>>53932227
Minecraft-server, superior speed and no wearing down the for ssd.
i wish we had something like the amiga ram disk today
just drag an icon on to it and it just werks
>>53932277
every OS uses free RAM as disk cache but it's not always the data that most affects you. It's often background disk reads/writes that don't affect your perceived performance. Manually putting an application on RAM disk will make it faster, while pushing out some of the background stuff that you don't notice anyway.
Could I make a 1GB RAM disk and put Firefox inside it? Since it never goes over ~500mb RAM usage it should be fine right? Would it run fasteR?
>>53932481
You could have something a bit like it on Linux by just having a tmpfs mount on your desktop
>>53932508
yeah i guess that's true but unfortunately i'm mostly stuck with windows
>>53930214
Even 16GB of ram isn't enough to have 1GB of "spare" ram in 2016 thanks to the terrible, terrible browsers and websites of today.
>>53932504
>the only page I ever visit is google.com, and I never actually perform a search
kek
>>53932508
>>53932514
and besides you can't just drag a program icon on to it and have it just werk, you'd need to copy literally everything to it
>>53932515
I know what you mean. I have 2GB of RAM and I regularly use 16GB of RAM on Firefox alone.
Oh wait, you're a consumerist retard with buyer's remorse.
>>53932508
Or just use /dev/shm, that's what it's for.
>>53932536
OK Luddite
>>53932528
More like
>the only page I ever visit is 4chan.org
>>53932504
that's not .. how ..
what?
>>53932529
That's because Workbench had application directories.
You could have the same on Linux with ROX (which also gives you iconified windows on the desktop like on Workbench - try it if you're feeling nostalgic)
>>53932557
So to be modern I should buy a new computer (since this is 32bit and can only have 4GB of memory), and then just carry on using 1GB of 16GB rather than 1GB of 2GB?
>>53932571
>ROX
Oh boy! Rev up those time machines.
>>53932250
This. I have 16GB and 4 of that goes to my RAM disk.
>>53932619
my old desktop where I went all out with the Amiga theme
>>53932676
Should have used AmiWM.
But this thread makes me think: would this be a viable model for the Raspberry Pi? Just chip away at the install until you have the minimum of what you need, set aside a few hundred MB of RAM, and just copy the whole root partition to the memory on boot, and just have the home partition (which is written to a fraction of the amount of root) on a pen drive.
This would probably take a while to boot, but the Pi uses so little power you'd essentially just leave it up constantly.
>>53933501
AmiWM lacks the features I'm used to with pekwm.
>Pi
Isn't Linux already fairly smart about slow flash disks and keeps a lot of file i/o operations in cache for a while?
>>53930214
>tfw 3GiBs of RAM
>>53930214
Back in the day I had a shit-rotten hard drive crash and while I waited for the new one to arrive I ran my bare essentials (workbench, a terminal, a text editor, etc) off of a 2MB recoverable ram disk rather than floppies.
I don't think that trick would still work today.
>>53936190
It could, but no one is interested in making it work.
That applies to everything in modern computing, it seems. "It worked then, but it doesn't now."
>>53932590
>2016
>32-bit OS
What?
>>53930214
Is there a way to do this reasonably on Windows? In Linux it only takes up the amount of space it needs to, but with Windows all the programs for this just block off a massive section of RAM and maybe place files there eventually.
>>53932249
Kek, well done anon
I tried, but my pc keep BSoDing and i give up
I mount my /tmp/portage as tmpfs
Could I install android studio inside ram disk. Will it work faster?
I'd like to interject for a moment here.
What OP hints at is a different technology from the IMG OP provided.
Commodore had a RAM for storing OS DATA.
The current RAM as Disk Storage is another story.
...thank you for your attention, Sir.
>>53936449
Unless you need the RAM, there's no real difference.
>>53936814
>Commodore had a RAM for storing OS DATA.
That was a ROM you mongoloid.
>>53936843
Except that's false
I have 64gb's of ram, OS running on a 256gb SSD, I have ~650gb's of SSD space for professional work stuff. I have absolutely no need for a ram disk.
>>53936814
Nah mate. Nah. The RAM disk in AmigaOS is just another drive, just like what's being discussed.
Source: Pimped out A1200 about 6 feet to my left.
>>53936558
This. Are you just forced to use Linux if you want a reasonable solution to this problem?
>>53936449
>2016
>still using ${CURRENT_YEAR} memes
What?
>>53937069
Send me an SSD, I'll PM you my address.
>>53930214
:^)
>>53939619
ok
>>53939712
thanks fampai
>>53932263
Isn't it loaded to ram when you open it? Or do you mean starting the browser will be retard-fast?
>>53940476
He means putting the browser and everything the browser might need from a hard drive. The whole program and all possibly required resources aren't loaded into RAM whenever you start a program, it's loads them as needed. Putting them in a speedy RAM disk means they can be loaded faster when the program decides to use them, but also means there's less usable RAM for the program to use. But if you've got RAM to burn anyway, I don't think there's any harm from it.
