>Hi Craig and Martina,
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>Just ran a test with and without RamDisk for tmpfiles and sortwork and was disappointed.
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>I am trying to optimize ExcelListener where there is a ~20MB cursor on which I run many SELECTS. Guess I have defined enough indices so that Rushmore is able to do its job well.

If you put the original file into the ramdisk it might perform faster. If you run a query that produces a cursor - usually with READWRITE, and store that in the RAM disk and subsequently requery the cursor, it will not perform well until you add indexes to the cursor. If you have a big enough ram disk to hold the file and it is indexed, you might see some improvement.

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>Thanks for the answer.
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>Alex
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>>- Ramdisk for Windows...
>>- move TMP folder to RamDisk volume
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>>MartinaJ
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>>>I've noticed files get created in temporary directory when VFP executes a SELECT INTO CURSOR xx.
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>>>Is there a way to keep cursors 100% in memory and never go to disk, even READWRITE cursors? Sort of like the Ramdisk in DOS days.
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>>>TIA,
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>>>Alex