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Originally Posted by AprilHare
Amiga ram disks were better in my opinion (dynamically-resizing RAM disks were seriously useful), but it sounds cool.
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I had a dynamically resizing ramdisk under Win98. It was not updated for 32 bit NT based Windows, or I'd still be using it. There may actually be a payware dynamic ramdisk that works under XP, but I haven't looked. Available freeware solutions (including a sample program provided by Microsoft) meet my needs.
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It would still use swap space if the application used too much ram though (theoretically you can disable swap but apparently Microsoft don't like this).
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Yes, you
can run without a page file. It's not recommended - Windows gets snarky if you do. You
can reduce the page file to a minimal size, but you have to have one.
Other tricks that may be useful include forcing a fixed size to pre-allocate the required space and avoid the overhead involved in growing it when needed, and if you have more than one physical drive, putting the page file on a different drive and IDE channel. (I do that here.)
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Why not ramp up the geekage and run a whole OS in a RAM disk, running Firefox and Calibre? 
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I should only be
able to do that.
If my mobo would actually
see the 4th GB of RAM installed (2 2GB sticks, but it only sees 3GB of it), I'd put pagefile.sys on the ramdisk.
I wouldn't run Calibre from the ramdisk, however. It would speed it up a treat, but I don't use Calibre enough to justify the effort. I use Calibre for ebook conversions and metadata editing,. I do
not use it as a library manager.
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Dennis