Cyber Akuma Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 In a modern i7 based system that has, lets say... 6GB of ram.. Would there be any point in having a dedicated Readyboost drive? Or a dedicated drive (not partition) for swap file usage? Would there be any performance increase at all over a system that has no readyboost and the os/page/applications all on one partition the size of the entire harddrive? If so, what about a system that has 9GB of ram? Not sure if these questions would apply to Windows 7 as well since its still in Beta right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xahid Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 I have a Servers with 32GB RAM & 12GB RAM, I observe OS(Linux 64B) use 0% Swap, but it still required to have swap file system ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicane-UK Veteran Posted January 3, 2009 Veteran Share Posted January 3, 2009 It's always made sense to put the page volume on a physically separate disk (on a separate IO channel) as the system could read / write to that whilst doing simultaneous reads & writes to the system volume. As you say, no point in doing that on a separate partition. Regarding ReadyBoost, I really don't think there are any gains to be made on a system with that much RAM and a CPU that fast & powerful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Akuma Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 It's always made sense to put the page volume on a physically separate disk (on a separate IO channel) as the system could read / write to that whilst doing simultaneous reads & writes to the system volume. As you say, no point in doing that on a separate partition. Yes I know, I never understood why some people say to use a separate partition and why Linux does this by default... at least Ubuntu does. Anyway, so is there any point in having a separate page drive on a system with that kinda cpu and ram for general desktop use and gaming? Possibly some very minor video encoding/development/CAD as well but rarely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 3, 2009 Veteran Share Posted January 3, 2009 Yes I know, I never understood why some people say to use a separate partition and why Linux does this by default... at least Ubuntu does. The reason, I am told (and it sounds reasonable) that Linux has swap as a separate partition is to avoid the double hit on file I/O. It reads or writes directly to a section, rather than having to be translated into a position in a file stored in an NTFS (or ext3) filesystem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealexweb Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Readyboost seems to make my PC slower for some reason. 1000th Post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 I've never even tried readyboost, but imo if you only have like 1 gb ram it's cheaper and more efficient just to get more ram than use readyboost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scratch42069 Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 ReadyBoost is useless past 2GB of RAM anyway. It's more aimed at systems with less than 1GB. I ran ReadyBoost on my last system that had 2GB of DDR1 and I didn't notice any improvements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Akuma Posted January 4, 2009 Author Share Posted January 4, 2009 I see Ok then, what about having a physically seperate drive just for the pagefile if you have 6 or more gigs of ram on your system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToneKnee Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Readyboost seems to make my PC slower for some reason.1000th Post! That can happen if the pendrive is a slow one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svnO.o Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 I seeOk then, what about having a physically seperate drive just for the pagefile if you have 6 or more gigs of ram on your system? I think it'd still be pointless. With 8GB of ram on my system I don't even use a pagefile and my system runs great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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