Monday, July 7, 2014

Speed up computer with Ramdrive

1) Make a small Ramdisk of 64-512MB size(use Dataram Ramdisk Lite: http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk)
2) Create a small swap file to your Ramdisk, 32-128MB is fine.
3) Move your firefox cache to the Ramdisk, limiting it's size to available space (30MB is fine if you don't have much RAM to spend), check here: Set firefox cache location
4) Restart Firefox and check if it creates the temp directory you specified(and monitor that it doesn't grow out of hand!).
5) Done!

I have found that making just a tiny Ramdisk where you put a little bit of swap seems to make computer faster. If you need more swap, create a few gigs swap somewhere on your HDD/SSD.

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