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Ping Monitor misses some alert conditions - Fixed

7 days ago, by Ann in Network Toolkit Forum

Thank you for the log and screenshots. Both things you spotted are caused by the same oversight, and it's now fixed in the latest build. There is a 15-minute cooldown between alerts. A host that starts failing during that time has its alert held back until the cooldown ends, which is intended, but Ping Monitor kept only a count of those hosts and did not track them individually. That's why the

Re: Jitter graph in Ping Monitor

8 days ago, by Ann in Network Toolkit Forum

On the 5m, 30m and 1h views the graph plots one point per second, so the shape of the graph line already shows the jitter. A flat line means there's none, even if the latency is high. A sawtooth line means there's plenty, and the jitter is roughly the height of the teeth, top to bottom. On the 24h and 7d views each point is an average of a whole minute or hour, so the jitter info gets smoothed

Re: Unknown host 'api.softperfect.app' error

16 days ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum

This error means your Macs can't look up api.softperfect.app in DNS, which is the service NetWorx sends reports through. That's why reinstalling NetWorx app didn't help - the app is fine. The domain is also healthy. We have just checked it, to be sure, and it resolves everywhere. Since all three of your Macs failed at once, the culprit is almost certainly in something they share: your router,

Re: Windows tweaks for increasing RAM FS performance

23 days ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) is an architecture used in multi-socket systems. Instead of all CPUs sharing one equally accessible pool of RAM, the machine is divided into NUMA nodes, typically one node per CPU socket, with each socket having its own directly attached RAM. In these terms, memory access can be: Local - CPU accesses RAM attached to its own NUMA node, which means lower latency an

Re: Ping Monitor: How to keep history data forever?

29 days ago, by Ann in Network Toolkit Forum

Thank you for reporting this issue. The empty chart was a bug, and ironically "Forever" was the only setting that didn't work. The 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days options have always worked correctly. That same bug was also preventing the chart from scrolling back. Please download the latest build and install it on top of your current installation. Your hosts and settings will be kept, a

Re: "Protected location" message in RAM FS when selecting a source folder

29 days ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Good news: nothing is wrong with your system. That message is a deliberate safety check in RAM File System, not a permissions error. When you create a volume from a folder, RAM FS moves the original aside and puts a link in its place pointing at the RAM volume. Because a RAM volume is volatile, that link can briefly lead nowhere after an unexpected restart. In a data folder it's nothing more th

Re: Memory allocation and volume formatting in RAM FS

4 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

It is all normal behaviour. Your R: is a volume, not a disk. Whereas the list in Task Manager is of physical disks, and drive letters only show there as disk labels. RAM File System is a file system - there's no virtual disk underneath holding your data, which is why there was no formatting step either. So it has no line of its own in that list, or in Disk Management, even though Explorer and your

Re: Memory allocation and volume formatting in RAM FS

4 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Compression pays off when the data is compressible and not constantly rewritten: source code, logs, text and CSV, build output... In your case - a temp folder on a machine with 64 GB - we would recommend to leave it Off. Much of what games and browsers write is already compressed, and RAM FS detects that per region and skips it, so there would be little to gain in the first place. To your actua

Re: Pagefile cannot be moved to RAM FS

4 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

A page file on a RAM FS drive is not supported, and it is not something we expect to support. RAM File System is a file system driver that loads well after the point where Windows sets up the paging file. By the time the volume exists, the memory manager has already decided what it has to work with. It is worth adding that it would not help even if it worked. A page file exists so Windows can

Re: Memory allocation and volume formatting in RAM FS

4 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Best is to install RAM File System first and remove RAM Disk afterwards. This way you always have a working setup to fall back to. The two products are quite happy to be installed side-by-side, as long as they aren't both using the same drive letter at once. It's easier not to reuse the letter B:, and instead do the following: Install RAM File System and leave RAM Disk as it is for now. Crea

Re: Websites open slower after moving Edge cache to RAM

5 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

This is almost certainly not because of the RAM File System speed, but because your Edge ends up with no cache, so everything is fetched from the network, which is much slower. A RAM volume starts empty at every boot, so if the folder your symlink points to doesn't exist on it, Edge quietly stops caching. To check: Restart, exit Edge fully (it often runs in the background), and paste your s

Re: How to exclude RAM FS process, image files and volumes from security software scans

5 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Yes. Here is what each exclusion will mean: Excluded volumes Real-time scanners charge at every file operation, and on a RAM volume that overhead can dominate the work itself. In our tests we saw cases where the scanner filter, rather than the scanning, cost most of the throughput. In ESET this means a performance exclusion for each drive, not a detection exclusion. Excluded image file Every

Re: Search and indexing on a RAM FS volume

5 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Thank you for taking the time to write such a considered report. The workload list and the fact that Acrobat, Office, extraction tools and browser caches all behave well is a valuable feedback for us. The point about the Everything tool was brought up by several users, so we raised it with its developers (voidtools) directly and received an answer: Indexing support for a third-party filesystem

Re: Interaction of other software with RAM FS

5 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

RAM File System is a real kernel-mode file system driver, so the volume appears as an ordinary local drive with a letter, and other applications use it through the normal Windows file APIs with nothing to configure. It reports its file system name as "NTFS" (to increase its recognition by other software) and implements NTFS behaviour - ACLs, reparse points, hard links, sparse files, exte

Re: Memory allocation and volume formatting in RAM FS

5 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

With our RAM File System, answers to both your questions are simpler than you are anticipating. You do not to set aside a block of memory. When you create a RAM File System volume, you give it a maximum size - it is a ceiling, not an upfront reservation. Memory is used only as files are written, and released again as they are deleted. If you set the maximum size to 24 GB and then put 3 GB of f

Re: Using RAM FS for trading software

6 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Your assumption is correct: Windows will not let two volumes hold the same letter at the same time. But cloning your SSD is not necessary - the swap is simple and fully reversible, which makes it perfect for testing: In RAM Disk, dismount or delete the S volume. Its image file on your SSD stays untouched, so nothing will be lost. In RAM FS, create a volume and assign it the letter S. Copy your

Re: New version of RAM Disk still sees the drive letter from the uninstalled old version

6 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

That error isn't caused by the RAM Disk installer or your licence. Your Windows TEMP folder still points to I:\temp, which was on the RAM disk that you removed. As that drive no longer exists, the installer cannot create its temporary files there, and shows the "cannot find the path" error. To fix it: Press Win+R, type: sysdm.cpl and then press Enter. Go to the Advanced tab and cli

Re: How to migrate from RAM Disk to RAM FS

6 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

RAM File System isn't a new version of RAM Disk. It is a separate product with a completely different architecture. RAM Disk creates a virtual disk that Windows then formats with NTFS or exFAT, whereas RAM FS is a file system in its own right, with no disk emulation and no NTFS/exFAT layer underneath. That's what makes it noticeably faster. So there is no direct upgrade. But there is also no

Re: Using RAM FS for trading software

6 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

RAM File System is significantly faster than RAM Disk in some types of operations, for example when copying large files. In situations where data comes from external sources via the internet, the limiting factor is usually the speed of the internet connection rather than the speed or RAM Disk / RAM FS. To find out with certainty whether RAM FS can give you a noticeable increase in performance w

Re: RAM FS volume as a file share

6 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Yes, a RAM File System volume can be shared over the network exactly like a local NTFS volume. Share it the usual way (right-click the drive and choose "Sharing", or net share Queue=R:\) and other machines map \\server\Queue. Nothing special needs to be configured. We tested this extensively with cross-machine byte-range locks and share modes correct, and oplocks/leases behaving e

Re: Which Linux application file should I download?

6 weeks ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum

If you are using Linux Mint 22.3 on an AMD processor, you should download the DEB package for Intel/AMD. In Downloads: DEB packages are for Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and similar distributions. RPM packages are for Fedora, RHEL, openSUSE, and similar distributions. So for your Linux Mint 22.3, the DEB package for Intel/AMD is the correct one to download.

Re: Enabling RAM FS compression doesn't seem to compress anything

6 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

We are very glad that you are happy with RAM FS. And yes, junctions/symlinks and reparse points are fully supported: RAM FS is a real file system rather than a disk emulated with exFAT on top, so the tools that break on exFAT temp folders should work fine with RAM FS. Regarding compression, it is almost certainly working for you, but two things make it look like nothing happens: 1. Compressi

Re: RAM Disk or RAM File System: which should I choose?

6 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

RAM File System is its own file system, purpose-built for memory, rather than NTFS. It supports file and folder permissions in the normal way, so most software cannot tell the difference. The NTFS caveat applies only when something specifically requires an NTFS volume, such as disk imaging or HDD emulation. Video rendering and downloads do not require NTFS. In fact, your two primary uses are id

Re: RAM Disk or RAM File System: which should I choose?

6 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Either of our RAM products will help with reducing SSD writes. Both the RAM Disk and the RAM FS keep files in memory, so the write operations caused by downloading and saving files onto an in-RAM volume never touch your SSD. If you are already using our RAM Disk, there is no need to change anything. It handles this job very well. RAM Disk operates at lower speeds compared to RAM FS, but at the

Re: Rogue Windows_Temp folder on RAM FS volume

6 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Thanks for the thorough report - your log excerpts and environment dump helped to pin down this issue. Short answer: RAM FS isn't creating that folder, and neither is MediaMonkey. Your R:\Windows_Temp is the temp directory used by your Windows service accounts, and it's being pointed at your RAM volume by a system-wide environment variable that is separate from the per-user TEMP/TMP you already

Missing graph in taskbar widget - Easy fix

6 weeks ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum

A missing graph (or any other enabled widget element) simply means that your taskbar widget area is too small to fit it in. You can easily resolve this issue by resizing the widget: Move your mouse cursor over the left side of NetWorx widget - a vertical bar will appear. Click on that bar and, and while holding the left mouse button down, move the mouse to the side to resize the widget area unt

Re: Driver not running in Safe Mode on Windows 11 23H2 and below

7 weeks ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

It is not your CPU or your Windows version. The fact that RAM FS runs well and produces those benchmarks proves that our driver is fully compatible with your processor. Windows Safe Mode excludes our driver by design. Safe Mode is a diagnostic and recovery mode. Its entire purpose is to boot Windows with the minimum set of Microsoft-supplied drivers needed to get the system running - nothing mo

SNMPv3 SHA-384/SHA-512 authentication support - Added

8 weeks ago, by Ann in Network Scanner Forum

Thank you for the suggestion. We've just implemented it in the latest build. Network Scanner now supports SHA-384 and SHA-512 SNMPv3 authentication, alongside the existing MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256. As AES-256 privacy was already supported, the full SHA-384/SHA-512 with AES-256 (authPriv) combination your Dell iDRAC10 systems require should now work end-to-end. To use this new feature right aw

Re: How to add licence key without GUI

2 months ago, by Ann in Switch Port Mapper Forum

Thank you for the detailed feedback. Both your points led directly to some improvements. Here are your options: 1. Applying the licence key Option A - with your current installation (without updating). The console looks for the licence in a plain file named same as the executable but with a '.key' extension, sitting next to it. Since your binary is '/usr/bin/nsmapcon', save the key as '/u

Large fixed-size allocations and high-throughput writes cause a freeze on macOS - Fixed

2 months ago, by Ann in RAM Disk & RAM File System Forum

Thank you for the exceptionally detailed and well-researched report. The comparisons against tmpfs and the APFS ram:// disk, and the work you've done to rule out RAM stability, were immensely helpful. The 14/16 GB freeze boundary you pinned down lined up precisely with what we were seeing on our large-memory test machine. We've just published a new snapshot with fixes for the issues you reporte