No, but you don't gain anything. You lose the memory you could be using.
Loading apps into a ramdisk ahead of time to avoid touching the harddisk
has the disadvantage of wasting memory also. A ramdisk with filesystem
currently is not resizeable thereby wasting memory on unused apps loaded
into the ramdisk. You may end up using memory TWICE for the text pages of
the same application. A definate loss.
An idea that has occurred to me is a type of filesystem I'll dub ramdiskfs.
In this hypothetical fs, text pages within executables would be shared
with the ramdiskfs pages, thereby getting around the problem of loading
the program into memory twice. I have no idea how practicable this idea
is nor how to implement it at this time. This would be quite a win for
large executables and libraries loaded into ramdisk.
-- William Burrow -- Fredericton Area Network, New Brunswick, Canada Copyright 1997 William Burrow This line left intentionally blank. And the one below it.