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‎02-09-2017 12:28 PM

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Product: HP Z800
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)

Working to squeeze the most out of my Z800 CAD Workstation.  I'm looking at the potential to create a RamDisk/RamDrive for the program and files I'm working with.  If anyone has some RamDisk/Drive experience with HP workstations I would love to hear your recommendations.

 

My concern is with dual processors and dedicated memory.  What happens if I allocate memory for a RamDisk that exceeds 1/2 of the total installed memory?  For example with 32GB memory there is 16GB per processor. If I allocate 20GB for a RamDisk will one processor be starved for memory?

-dale
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‎02-24-2017 02:54 PM

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I got the ramdisk set up. Still learning about it. With MNI enabled, when I set up a 20GB ramdisk (32GB total system memory) the processors didn't seem to be memory starved however, when I disabled it and enabled NUMA Split mode several CPU's showed up parked. I plan to do some more testing although I'm still figuring out how to best use a ramdisk.

 

Here are the speed test results: 

DriveR.jpg

-dale
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