In a message to Paul Edwards about 8 meg disk cache, Paul Markham said:

PM> I don't know whether a RAM disk will get paged or not. When we
PM> were playing the other day, it seemed as though the disk cache
PM> got paged out, so I guess the RAM disk could as well. The
PM> question then is, which is more efficient - I/O caused by
PM> paging, or I/O caused by reading/writing files? I suspect paging
PM> would be better since it wouldn't be reading and writing the
PM> directory.

It doesn't really make sense to have a cache pageable!  I would be
very surprised if cache.exe data areas are paged!  The ramdisk otoh,
may or may not be.  One again, it doesn't make sense for them to be
paged, but you never know...

'tnt, Anthony.