Cache hits are back up to pre 486 levels!
The meter maxes out much more often, and the overall ratio is now 11 bars.
It’s be nice to see an option to bring a larger 128×128 widget onto the desktop to show cache hits. (Just a bigger tray icon.) Would be awesome!
Possibly skinning support in the future?
With build 487 system memory (512 MB) cache fill almost always was at 100%. After upgrading to 490 it remains at 11%. I didn’t rebuild the cache because I want to see if eBoostr makes it by itself. Otherwise I will make it or reduce system memory to 256 MB. I have 3 GB being used by Vista 32. I’m having troubles with MS Word but I think eBoostr has nothing to do with it. The only way to prove this is installing previous version.
On every boot of the computer, the eBoostr control panel shows that no cache drives are active until I launch My Computer for the first time. I am pretty sure that eBoostr is not functioning as I neither see the animated icon nor feel any speed boost before the drive is properly shown on the eBoostr control panel. It seems that for some reason I have to access the cache drive before eBoostr recognizes it because accessing the flash drive using any program’s file dialog seems to fix the problem.
Using build 490 on Windows XP SP3, tried removing and reinstalling but the issue still persists.
I updated to 3.0.490 and got a BSOD 30 minutes later. I was only using Firefox to browse the web at the time. Firefox is one of the programs in my applications priority list.
I’m currently uploading a 7z compressed memorydump using YouSendIt.
when i rebuilt the cache after installing 3.0.490 i noticed the progress bar indicated 100% about 15 to 20 seconds before the screen
refreshed. i am wondering if this is a windows issue or can it be changed to represent the actual progress of the task.
btw i love the high percentages of cache being used now (3.0.346 was 31% 20% and 35%, 3.0.490 is 100%, 71% and 31% for a total of
21,749MB)
I’ve been using build 483 for about 3 weeks. The system consists of
Compaq nc6120 laptop with 1.5G RAM
30 GB HDD
1GB SD memory as eBoostr cache.
It’s a company supplied laptop with little hope of upgrading RAM and lots of customer support programs installed, so my use is keeping the core programs fast.
One of the things I noted was after moving some files from my laptop HDD to a USB HDD for archiving, the cache contents contained both the source and destination files. I excluded the destination drive path, but there seems to be no way to exclude external drives generically.
I have included 3 Microsoft Office applications to be boosted, but don’t see any Office files in the cache content unless I double click an entry in the cache list.
Double clicking on an entry in Cache Viewer also brings up a window (Statistics Viewer) with a column labeled weight… what does this value mean?
If I drill down the newly opened Statistics Viewer windows, it seems to be infinitely deep. The files seem totally unrelated. The cached percentages alternate between 1 or 2% and 90+% as I drill down.What does this mean? Is the cache file corrupted? I have tried removing the device and re-adding it.
AutoCad 2007 is installed, but I don’t get it in the list for optimization.
Cache fill is only 5%, even after rebuilds, delete add, etc.
If I stop eBoostr service, open eBoostr control panel, it naturally tells me that the service is not running. At that point, when I bring up services, the start button is greyed out, but not the stop. Right-click and restart does work.
Hi all,
I did several trials with previous builds, this one has not crashed (BSOD) yet which is a good thing ! And overall PC performance seems improved. It sometimes takes up to a few days before a crash occured before, so it’s too early to say it’s OK on my system but I sincerely hope this is the good one.
I just got some kind of error message related to the license, but which now seems to have been converted in a V3 license for 1 year.
More if something happens…
I don’t know what is the overhead of the file system in accessing the cache file, it might be negligible though. But for situations where the whole drive is dedicated to caching , the drive could be accessed in raw mode without formatting like the Linux swap partition. It would be interesting to measure the increase of performance gained by bypassing the file system.
I was only using eBoostr beta for Aspire One mobile PC for latest netbook feedbacks but I now know this is really satisfying and good.
Now, I started testing the 487 beta on my main PC which I using for my web designing and copy writing.
Web designing needs so many types of fonts especially in non alphabet using countries especially Japanese like me.
My main PC holds over 400 fonts and this was making the Adobe creative suites startup very very slow.
But caching the font by eBoostr, It’s extremely fast !!
Thanks to the eBoostr again !!
Tray icon is always active. I will reinstall 487 over 487 and see what happens.
System: Vista SP1; 768 MB System Memory.
