Internet Cache in Ramdisk not much faster!

[purecomedy]

I was trying out the "crazyman" tweak where the tcpip.sys is loaded on a ramdrive instead of off the hard drive. I thought it would also be interesting to see how much faster web browser cache was when using the RAMdisk!

I gave myself a 16MB ramdisk and loaded a few webpages with about 5MB of content. Came back to it with the Internet cache comparison set to "never" and still it wasn't overly fast. Just wondering if anyone has tried this and if they can explain why the results off of memory don't kick ass over hard drive cache.

[purecomedy]

Come on somebody throw me a fricken bone here!

[LukeMan]

Thats seem a little small for a ram disk......mine is set at 50meg

I've been running it for quite a while and it works fine. Which one did you use?

The link below is one the best ram disk setup guides around:

http://broadbandnuts.com/ramdisk.shtml

L.

[onetrueday]

I had used that tweak in one of my installs of win2k as well. I didnt see any preformance increase either. I would say that some people will see a nice improvement, but it depends? It depends on where your bottleneck really lies. Perhaps some are suffering froma bottleneck due to having those drivers on the hard drive. If your slowest point is some place besides those drivers, then you wouldnt see any preformance increase. I liked having a 30meg ramdisk an putting a 28meg internet cache on it. It offered a slight improvement in speed, but it did two other imporant things. It freed my drive up during heavy multi-tasking and it also made it so I didnt have to clean my IE cache EVER. For example, I could easily defrag the second partition on my first hard drive while I surfed the next without heavy strain.

[purecomedy]

Yes I did use that same setup from broadbandnuts Lukeman. What happened is I tried setting it to 64MB and for some reason it always failed, I thought I remembered hearing somewhere that there was a 32MB maximum for ramdrives but if you have a 50MB one then I guess that's B.S.

I guess I just find it interesting that web browsing isn't much faster on pages with a ton of graphics that are cached when I go to that site a 2nd time. Like RAM can be read at like 500MB/s and a hard drive under 100MB/s (totally depends on the HD), but anything over 25MB/s in actual performance from a HD is pretty unlikely. Anyways, with this logic I would expect cached pages to show up 5X faster at least.

My actual findings show that on going to a page for the first time the RAM Drive setup is increasing the speed of that. I read into this as things going faster due to the decreased overhead of using the hard drive when writing things to cache for the first time. The Ram Drive internet cache seems to help more on pages that have complex frames and layers, not really a page where I just load like 50 porn .jpgs on one page (yeah I know funny that I tested this hey).

I was expecting the retrieval part of web pages to be faster, not the first time viewing of them.....

[LukeMan]

You are right in the size........32M.....my mistake.

All I can tell you is that with the various tweaks, from both here and Cablenuts, that I do see a difference since adding the ramdrive. But as they say different boxes react different.

I for instance never really got anywhere near the d/l speeds you see posted here till my last round of tweaking using the newest Cablenuts version. Not as fast as the speed demons here but works for me.

Sometimes you just got to go one step at time and see what works..........I didn't add the ramdrive till well after all the risk takers reformatted after all the crashes.

L.

[onetrueday]

The speed your computer makes online is like the chaos theory in math. To some point, there are so many reasons why your service is faster or slower on a daily, weekly, and month basis. I had problems with random disconnections with my cable recently. I had almost everything replaced and my house serviced twice. Nothing would fix it, until I installed windowsXP. I'm still unsure if they merely fixed the server, or if the new OS gave me that stability. It just sure it nice to put three movies into queue and have them all downloaded when I wake up. With my cable connection, I dont use the proxy server. Yet, often days with barely any tweaks most pages will fully appear as soon as I press enter. I do think the cableut tweaks make a difference. However, I still consider the speed I get to be as in consisant as the weather. It is not usually related to my gateway either as I've found through tracert.