Live in a RAMdrive? (Nerd-o!)

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:41 am

So... my new laptop will have 2gb of ram, which is a retarded amount for a notebook in this year of our Lord 2005. Only my live set will eat up that much, so I gots to wondering if anyone has made a RAM drive out of excess RAM, and put Live on it? I dont get the thing for another 3 weeks so I can't try it myself, but I wonder what load times would be like

-tim

gazbats · Post by **gazbats** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:48 am

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:59 am

Gaz! you made it!

Thanks for your contribution and the very informative post.*

*you gaylord.

gazbats · Post by **gazbats** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:06 am

no problemo Timmy I do what I can..

you know i'm the man to see with all your technical questions!!!

Tails · Post by **Tails** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:08 pm

On a similar note, with MP3 support, do you think it would be worthwhile to create a RAMDisk to hold songs you're likely to use, instead of using Live's "store clips in RAM" function?

I suppose the only advantage would be that the clips are already in RAM, and there isn't any loading that needs to be done to transfer them there while you're playing a set...

I don't think putting Live in a RAMDisk would help performance other than application startup, since the software would essentially be loaded into RAM anyway from disk, right? I guess if you start up Live frequently it could be a benefit, but for many of us, Live never gets closed, really...