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   pajenn
   Member

   Current setup: I have a laptop with 4 GB of ram, of which 32-bit Windows XP can only manage 3 GB. I split the remaining gig into two 512 MB ramdisks using SuperSpeed (I had to enable PAE mode for it). When I heard about eBoostr, I decided to dedicate one of the RAM drives to it, plus another 512 MB of Windows managed memory, plus a 1 GB Kingston USB flash drive (FAT32). That's working fine -- no problems, but I have yet to determine the performace gain, if any.

   Question: Should I remove the SuperSpeed ramdisk dedicated to eBooster, and then let eBoostr rebuild its cache on the subsequently available unmanaged ram? Would that provide any benefit over my current setup? (fwiw, I do not have SuuperSpeed set to save the ram image at shutdown, although I did save it after eBoostr first built the cache on it).

   Concerns: I assume SuperSpeed and eBoostr both grab part of the unmanaged RAM at each Windows start-up if set to use it, and they load previously saved images or formats onto that ram. Any reason to suspect a conflict between them? If RAM is divided into permanent sectors or similar the way hard drives are, I'd expect SuperSpeed and eBoostr to both grab separate, pre-allocated sectors of it (so no conflict), but if they just search for the first available 512 MB of unmanaged RAM and then each try to use it, then I guess that could be a problem...

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   mradr
   Member

   Some ramdisk drivers do have problems running side by side with eboostr. This is due to them fighting for the free space they think is there, so yes your right. One way around it is to startup eboostr by hand instead, or if you can with your SupoerSpeed, start it up by hand to give it time between each other. This usally works but sometimes doesn't and you'll have to just give up one or the other... or just find another ramdrive driver.
   Gavotte_RAMDisk_1.0.4096.5_200811130 <-The one I use... if you can get it to work.

   I would just let eboostr do its thing with out help, give it the 1GB of the ram thats not being used by the system. Ram faster then USB so more you give it there the better/faster it is. Eboostr saves it own image to the hard drive, so that way when you restart its saved and can be put back into ram faster.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Art
   Member

   >“… determine the performace gain, if any.”
   I’m using ramdrive and eBoostr and is difficult determine the real gain, the system is quicker and stable. In a typical workday I use around 10 applications (corel, dream, photoshop, firefox…).

   > Question: Should I remove the SuperSpeed ramdisk dedicated to eBooster, and then let eBoostr rebuild its cache on the subsequently available unmanaged ram?
   Yes.
   >Would that provide any benefit over my current setup? (fwiw, I do not have SuuperSpeed set to save the ram image at shutdown, although I did save it after eBoostr first built the cache on it).
   I save the ram image once a week, in good times once a month !! If possible try to set the environment (temp folders) to ram disk. My firefox cache is in ramdisk too!! Before I open some useful sites to firefox cache it and then I save the image. Ready, every boot the firefox open whit a clean and quick cache (firefox application in eBoostr and firefox cache files in ramdrive!!).

   > Concerns: I assume SuperSpeed and eBoostr …
   In my system the ramdrive and eBoostr work fine. I tried to mount Eboostr in the ramdrive, but the speed was slight better whit Eboostr managing direct the system memory.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   byteboss
   Member

   pajenn, I'm running a 256 MB SuperSpeed ramdisk on one of
   my machines with eBoostr installed and I've not noticed
   any problems at all. I am running Windows XP Pro SP3 on
   that machine though, so I can't speak for Windows 7 or Vista.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Art
   Member

   Leute!
   eBoostr whit a new hd ssd in an old an7 (fsb 333, qsoft ramdrive, xpsp3...)
   

   Posted 2 years ago #

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