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Browse All TopicsI have a Web site on an NT4 SP6a machine running IIS4 which uses a 40M Access database.
To speed up performace, I would like to force the OS to load the entire database in memory.
Does anyone know how to create a virtual drive in memory?
Sincerely,
Afrosonic.
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by: heskyttbergPosted on 2003-10-30 at 03:38:16ID: 9649237
Hi!
m/ntw2k/ut ilities.sh tml
You would need a 3rd party tool/program to creat a ramdisk in NT.
You would need to copy the database to ramdrive each time NT restarts, before starting IIS services.
You would need to make sure that the database is copied to disk at regular intervals so changes persists at a reboot.
This could prove somewhat troublesome, but feel free to do it if speed is that important.
I searched around a little, dosen't seem to be any ramdrive software availible for NT4 any more.
You should upgrade to at least 2000.
Check this out: http://www.sysinternals.co
There is program to tune cache parameters, might help.
Regards
/Hasse