How to set the virtual memory on a flash memory ?

[Tareq]

Hi,
I tried to set the virtual memory from the control panel on a 2GB
flash memory by setting the complete paging files on the flash to get
rid of the mechanical delay associated with the hard disk whenever I
switch to another program whose parts are in in the virtual memory.
However, I still hear the sound of the hard disk and I noticed no
change in the speed of the computer. I even removed the flash memory
and the computer still works. Any help to speed up the computer this
way?
Thanks

 

[db]

not sure where
you got the
idea to do this.

was it from your
3 grade math teacher, eg,

"flash memory" x "virtual memory" = flash virtual mem(sq'd)

the expression seems to omit
a variable for the "data transfer rate"


obviously
it is not working
for you and i
don't think it
is a viable solution
for whatever you
are trying to
accomplish.



- db
Hi,
I tried to set the virtual memory from the control panel on a 2GB
flash memory by setting the complete paging files on the flash to get
rid of the mechanical delay associated with the hard disk whenever I
switch to another program whose parts are in in the virtual memory.
However, I still hear the sound of the hard disk and I noticed no
change in the speed of the computer. I even removed the flash memory
and the computer still works. Any help to speed up the computer this
way?
Thanks

 

[Duplex]

Hi,
I tried to set the virtual memory from the control panel on a 2GB
flash memory by setting the complete paging files on the flash to get
rid of the mechanical delay associated with the hard disk whenever I
switch to another program whose parts are in in the virtual memory.
However, I still hear the sound of the hard disk and I noticed no
change in the speed of the computer. I even removed the flash memory
and the computer still works. Any help to speed up the computer this
way?
Thanks

I wouldn't use flash. It's slow, and it wears out faster than a hard drive.

I use an external pocket drive. I partitioned it so it's part storage
are/part virtual. It's faster than flash. Much, much faster. And it fits
in a shirt pocket.

You can also use a separate partition. For fastest access, put it on a
separate drive from the main one, and put it on the same chain as the CD
drive or whatever, not on the same one as the main drive. That's faster
than my method, But you can't carry it around.

You could get an external hard drive (one of those 2.5 or 3.5 jobber-dos)
fairly cheap. It wouldn't fit in the shirt pocket, but you could still
pick it up and move it, unlike the second option. It also wouldn't be as
fast as the second way, but it would be reasonably fast.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

You can also use a separate partition.

You can, but it *hurts* performance because it puts it farther from the
other frequently-used data on the drive and thereby increases the time it
takes for head movement to and from it. For best performance, the page file
should normally be on the most-used partition of the least-used physical
drive. For almost everyone with a single partition, that is C:

However, it's also worth pointing out that for those people who have plenty
of RAM (and that's many, if not most, of us in these days of inexpensive
RAM, there's usually very little paging going on, and where you put the page
file is therefore much less important than it used to be.

For fastest access, put it on a
separate drive from the main one, a

Yes. that's consistent with what I said above.

 

[Rock]

Hi,
I tried to set the virtual memory from the control panel on a 2GB
flash memory by setting the complete paging files on the flash to get
rid of the mechanical delay associated with the hard disk whenever I
switch to another program whose parts are in in the virtual memory.
However, I still hear the sound of the hard disk and I noticed no
change in the speed of the computer. I even removed the flash memory
and the computer still works. Any help to speed up the computer this
way?

AFAIK, you can't put the page file on a flash drive.