Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Using a RAM disk to make CAT tools faster
Poster: Tom in London
Post title: Going back a long way
Wow - a RAM disk - that takes me back to the 1990s, when computers were not what they are now, and I created a RAM disk to try and make things go faster.
I'm surprised to hear that some (but not all) CAT tools seem to read/write so much to the hard drive. I would have thought that this would only be an issue if you didn't have enough physical RAM installed on your computer - and that the solution would be to install more RAM.
However: I've been playing around with a couple of CAT tools these past few days (OmegaT and CafeTran) whilst running a lot of other applications at the same time. I hadn't noticed any slowdown until yesterday at the end of the day when I was doing a lot of search/replace on an OmegaT project that had a lot of source files in it; at a certain point the search/replace process did seem to be slowing down noticeably. So it may be that when the CAT tool is being worked hard, and there are a lot of other applications running, it puts a strain on the processor's ability to read/write to RAM and it starts using the hard drive instead.
Not that I know much about how computers work, but I'd be interested to know more about why some CAT tools seem to be more memory-hungry than other software.
[Edited at 2020-04-09 08:14 GMT]
Topic: Using a RAM disk to make CAT tools faster
Poster: Tom in London
Post title: Going back a long way
Wow - a RAM disk - that takes me back to the 1990s, when computers were not what they are now, and I created a RAM disk to try and make things go faster.
I'm surprised to hear that some (but not all) CAT tools seem to read/write so much to the hard drive. I would have thought that this would only be an issue if you didn't have enough physical RAM installed on your computer - and that the solution would be to install more RAM.
However: I've been playing around with a couple of CAT tools these past few days (OmegaT and CafeTran) whilst running a lot of other applications at the same time. I hadn't noticed any slowdown until yesterday at the end of the day when I was doing a lot of search/replace on an OmegaT project that had a lot of source files in it; at a certain point the search/replace process did seem to be slowing down noticeably. So it may be that when the CAT tool is being worked hard, and there are a lot of other applications running, it puts a strain on the processor's ability to read/write to RAM and it starts using the hard drive instead.
Not that I know much about how computers work, but I'd be interested to know more about why some CAT tools seem to be more memory-hungry than other software.
[Edited at 2020-04-09 08:14 GMT]