Re: Operating System Recommendation
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 5:33 pm
Even Windows does let you use a RAM diskTwhite wrote:Because the inner workings of the Linux operating system are more transparent than Windows it allows you more free and easy access to using kernel technologies like tmpfs to tune your system in a way that is more specific to your use case.
but the main issue is that Audacity is only a 32-bit application on Windows. We don't turn on the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag when compiling Audacity, so even on 64-bit Windows, Audacity can only get 2 GB of RAM allocated to it by the system whereas it could get a theoretical 4 GB if that flag was on (and if the user turns on 4 GT tuning). Gale