http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/tags/superfetch Beta Testers Forum en-US Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:39:40 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/search.php http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/superfetch-prefetch-and-nvcache#post-1160 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:20:31 +0000 zPedro 1160@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>In Vista 32 bit Prefetch doesn't work if Superfetch is deactivated. One nice tweak is to activate Superfetch only for boot and Prefetch for both boot and applications. So, if you're using eBoostr you may deactivate ReadyBoost, related ReadyBoot and Superfetch for applications. My computer is now running silently without that inicial HDD noise and almost in a way that only XP did.<br /> I'm convinced that, if ReadyBoost is activated and we're using Intel TurboMemory in NVCache, eBoostr accelerates this cache that's why speed measures are so high (in my system about 10 times more then without TurboMemory). Maybe if there was an option to exclude NVCache we could try another configuration in order to optimize everything but ReadyBoost cache.<br /> Configs: Total memory installed: 4GB; RAM: 3GB; eBoostr Unmanaged Memory: 1GB, NVCache: 500MB.<br /> Greetings. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-123 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:16:44 +0000 chooky 123@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Just finished a round of testing eBoostr with several applications and investigation into performance with MS Superfetch turned off.</p> <p>For these tests I used <a href=""http://beta.eboostr.com/download/"">eBoostr 4 beta build 535</a> with a 2GB RAM cache on Windows 7 x64 RTM with 2 x Vertex 30GB RAID 0.</p> <p>I used <a href=""http://www.passmark.com/products/apptimer.htm"">Passmark Apptimer</a> to time application loading.</p> <p><img src="http://pxve3w.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pvWAoI3ZpSkOdcPMG0-zF7SjH8sPajjvZIithMTiFFB5kbEQcbGMbiP8xWpl8ez_tLCGfjuBjtFlqi1-3O9JvyCaqlHoDko3l/eboostr%20Superfetch.PNG"></p> <p>The results show that if you have an SSD it is for the most part better to have Superfetch turned off although some programs will suffer.</p> <p>Adding an eboostr RAM cache decreased first load times by a good margin. Subsequent loads did not improve much. </p> <p>Turning off Superfetch gave a further decrease in first and subsequent load times.</p> <p>My PC does feel snappier because eBoostr caches a lot of system files as well as programs.</p> <p>Boot and shutdown times did not change by more than a second.</p> <p>Other benchmarks like Passmark Performance Test or PCMark Vantage did not show any difference.</p> <p>More setup tips:<br /> It is important not to use a USB cache only memory.</p> <p>It is also important to go to Edit -&gt; Show cache content in the control panel and right click on entries for programs you don't use often, as well as C:\Windows\System32\catroot, and exclude them by path. This gives more cache space for programs you do want to speed up. Then rebuild the cache.</p> <p>Check with the eBoostr Cache Statistics program in your start menu to make sure the programs you are testing are cached nearly 100%, right clicking the item and increasing priority if they are not, or they won't be faster.</p> <p>To get these sorts of SSD performance increases from a US$40 software solution is pretty amazing. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/superfetch#post-1029 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:19:08 +0000 zPedro 1029@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Did anybody try to disable superfetch? If so what were the results? Do you think it's advisable? </p>