Dataram ramdisk and slow shutdowns

[littletemple]

So I recently setup a ramdisk (512MB) to put my Firefox cache and profiles on it. I have the ramdisk set to load image on startup and save image on shutdown. Since I've installed it, shutting down W7 64bit is taking forever...and I mean forever...around 10 minutes or so. It stays on 'Shutting down windows' screen forever and as far as I can see, there isn't any hard drive activity during the excess shutdown time. Has anybody else experience this or did I totally mess up something?

 

[remyat]

I had the same issue a year ago or so, I was using the ramdisk for firefox like you but waiting that long or worse, having to shut down the computer using the power button was annoying. So no ramdisk for me now.

 

[Idontcare]

Yeah that's not something that is because of the ramdisk itself per se but this is a timeout issue with one of the windows processes that is getting timed out because of the ramdisk drivers.

Check your event viewer for reports of processes/drivers that timed out during the shutdown.

 

[Makaveli]

I'm running ramdisc plus but don't have it set to save on shutdown will enable it and tell you if I see the same thing.

*Update*

So i'm home now and I just enabled save on shutdown and there was no difference in shutdown speed that I can see maybe 1 sec more I just did it by eye and didn't time it.

 

[littletemple]

Yeah that's not something that is because of the ramdisk itself per se but this is a timeout issue with one of the windows processes that is getting timed out because of the ramdisk drivers.

Check your event viewer for reports of processes/drivers that timed out during the shutdown.

I got this in my event viewer:

Windows detected your registry file is still in use by other applications or services. The file will be unloaded now. The applications or services that hold your registry file may not function properly afterwards.

DETAIL -
1 user registry handles leaked from \Registry\User\S-1-5-21-361383730-3699366488-320629766-1000:
Process 528 (\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\System32\winlogon.exe) has opened key \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-361383730-3699366488-320629766-1000