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Live in a RAMdrive? (Nerd-o!)
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:41 am
by timothyallan
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
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:48 am
by gazbats
Hi!
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:59 am
by timothyallan
Gaz! you made it!
Thanks for your contribution and the very informative post.*
*you gaylord.
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:06 am
by gazbats
no problemo Timmy I do what I can..
you know i'm the man to see with all your technical questions!!!
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:08 pm
by Tails
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...