re: Using an SD card for memory?
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 8:28 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Alan Masterman
(462 messages posted)
Transferring your swap file (more correctly termed 'system pagefile") to the SD memory
will speed up your system, to the extent that the processor will no longer have to
fight with your currently-running applications for access to the hard drive, but
the speed gain will not be very noticeable.
A more effective approach would be to instal at least twice as much RAM as your system
needs, and partition at least half of it as a RAMdisk, then relocate the system pagefile
to it. This would kill several birds with one stone:
(1) Your pagefile would then enjoy the same read/write response times as RAM;
(2) Pagefile fragmentation would never be a problem, since the pagefile is created
anew every time you boot;
(3) Any malwares which like to hide inside the pagefile (and there are a few) would
be flushed out every time you shut down.
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