kernel loading to ram

[.raven]

hi,

i have read i can load the kernel in the ram drive and this will get more preformence.

my question is is it a solution for server ? and when it is how many ram i need for it. min. ?

i thought about for my privat desktop. there i have 1 gb ram and my winxp mediacenter sp2 is a little bit to slow for me. i thought about to load my kernel to my ram.

the second question is to effected the load if i want to play a game. on weekend i just play some games and if i load my kernel ito the ram space i think i have less ramspace for gaming. right ?

is it a solution only for Workstations or can i use it also for gaming PC´s?

.raven

[cluberti]

Most of the kernel is already loaded into RAM by default when you boot your machine, with only a few kernel executables possibly not loading into RAM and getting paged out when the system is very busy. You can make a registry change to prevent this from happening, but I suggest against it as you can then actually run out of RAM and crash a box under heavy load (not probable, but possible).

If your box seems slow, I would run perfmon to determine whether everything is performing normally or not, and where you may need to make some upgrades, rather than focusing on the kernel. The kernel is pretty optimized already.