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From: CALIFFM@BAYLOR.BITNET (Michael Califf)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: What good are VMS RAMdisks anyway?
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Date: 22 Apr 88 14:51:00 GMT
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Here at Baylor we use a 2Mb RAMdisk on a VAXStation 2000 to hold
several data files which are accessed infrequently (only 1-2 times
a second) and which can be (and are) replaced many times a day.
The hard disk on the VS2000 is so slow that accesses to the
indexed files took seconds - this on an Student ID system which
is supposed to grant 0.5 second response.  Changing to a RAMdisk
(just the PDDRIVER type) decreased file access times to the
hundreths of a second and placed response time down into the
proper range.

This is just one case where a RAMdisk saved our skins.  Any other
stories out there?

Mike Califf
Communications Software Coordinator
Baylor  University
CALIFFM@BAYLOR
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