SpeedMeasure Tool ratios

By Dangthrimble | January 10th, 2009 | 8:25 am

I may be missing something here, but I expected the speed measure tool to show some impressive ratios. When I ran it on Microsoft Word 2003 I got a ratio of 0.97! With Notepad++ the ratio was better at 1.27. What sort of ratios should I be expecting?

My setup is an HP running XP Media Center Edition SP3 on a Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz with 2.00GB of RAM. I am running eBoostr v3.0 (build 484). My external memory is a 4GB SanDisk Ultra II CompactFlash Card rated at up to 15MB/s. I have allocated all 3904MB on the CompactFlash but nothing else.  Should I have configured it differently or am I misunderstanding the SpeedMeasure ratio?

7 Responses to “SpeedMeasure Tool ratios”

  1. JardaS
    Jan 10, 2009

    You CF card is too slow, IMHO. Try to allocate at least 512 MB of your internal RAM.


  2. Dangthrimble
    Jan 10, 2009

    As well as or instead of the CompactFlash?


  3. Crisse
    Jan 10, 2009

    I think 15 MB/s CF-card is not too slow. You can try to allocate some of your memory ïn addition to your CompactFlash Card and make speed tests after that.


  4. Dangthrimble
    Jan 10, 2009

    How does eBoostr know which memory to use first? System memory will be faster than my CF. Does eBoostr spot that and act accordingly? Or should it be first in my list of devices? And how does it know what to place in each cache? Would I better off not using the CF?


  5. Crisse
    Jan 10, 2009

    eBoost uses both memories simultaneously.


  6. zPedro
    Jan 10, 2009

    Crisse is right: 15 MB/s is very fast for a SD card, and also when he says eBoostr uses both memories. The speed it will read is the average between System Memory and SD card. I think that 256 MB RAM will be enough and you will preserve some nice 1,5 GB for programs’ execution. Anyway it seems the ratio you’re achieving could be better (above 2.x).


  7. matt
    Jan 10, 2009

    i’m getting ratios 3-4 with just ram caching about 2 with flash and ram caching



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