Writing pLink TEMP file to RamDisk

[ven...@pw.usda.gov]

I wondered if it is possible to speed up pLink by writing temporary files to a ram disk and if so how.  I have a windows7 computer with 64GB of memory.

Thanks,

Bill

[Shengbo Fan]

Well, use the ram disk is a good idea to accelerate. I have never used that, but as far as I know, some software can do that, and it will generate some ram drive. For pLink, just install it on the ram disk will work, the temp files are stored on the install path.

But that's not quite recommended due to two reasons:

1 Temp files will be generated only under exhaustive mode, for large database under open mode, the ram disk will not work.

2 According to some test results, the speed bottleneck for pLink is at the score part, which actually is using CPU rather than the IO part. So a more powerful CPU will be better, the ram disk may not be so helpful.