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Offline kbeartx

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Setting up a RAM Disk in Jaguar
« on: January 04, 2004, 10:20:35 AM »
I've been using a small RAM disk (~4MB) for my browser cache for many years, and I'd like to do this again w/ Jag and Safari but i canna' find any where to set this up!

Searching @ Apple and several of the dedicated OS-X websites has turned up nothing:  no tips, tricks, information, shareware, workarounds, nada.

Izzdiss one of those capabilities that Apple has not yet implemented in X, or is there some inherent architechtural limitation in UNIX that precludes this feature?

TIA,

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« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2004, 10:41:22 AM »
From my little understanding of UNIX, I think that just like OS X doesn't use virtual memory, it also does not support a RAM disk. All RAM has to be a physical chip.
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« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2004, 11:16:56 AM »
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« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2004, 12:54:37 PM »
Thnask fur the suggestions, guys!  

I czeched-out Panther Cache Cleaner, and it's got WAY more bells and whistles than I'm looking for, but the developer looks to have a whole bunch o' really neat Mac stuff.

RamBunctious looks to be exactly what this doctor ordered, and I used to use it way back w/ OS 8, so it's familiar and sort of friendly...

Now I jussed knead to finger out how to re-config Safari's default cache, iffitt Cannes Bea Dunne atoll...

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