Exclude files bigger then …Mb.
By TheSAS | January 20th, 2009 | 5:16 pm
One thing that really need to be added.
The most acceleration is achieved on small files, so it doesn’t really need to cache big files. I think it must be an exclude rule: “Exclude files bigger then”
Sorry for my English. My native is Ukrainian.
Tags: Exclude list
Jan 20, 2009
It is true that small random accesses to flash media are much faster than a hard drive (small files). But the difference in speed with RAM is relatively tiny, ergo this feature would have to be selectable for each type of media. Hard drives go much faster than flash drives in long consecutive accesses (big files).
So… In short, Exclude files (bigger/smaller) than N MB for cache device (X).
Jan 21, 2009
Absolutaly agree with the proposal.
Also – do you cache files that are read only in suqential read mode? Reading of such files is faster from HD and caching of them to flash has not sence IMHO.
Jan 21, 2009
This feature is already there:
in your ‘Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\eboostr’ folder
create or change the settings.ini file to contain:
[eBoostr]
maxfilesize=6291456
(for a max filesize of 6MB)
Jan 21, 2009
I think the point now is to have individual control for each cache device.
Jan 23, 2009
Is there a document / helpfile / wiki / website / … where this kind of options is described ?
I’d like to play with some of them as my cache fill never reaches 50% (of a 4Gb USB Stick) and I think I do have some ideas on which files might be usefull (helpfiles in dev env for instance).
Th