eboostr 3 build 479 working great so far

I’m running an Averatec 3250HS laptop.

Specs:

System:

Microsoft Windows XP -Home Edition Version 2 – Service Pack 3

Computer:

mobile AMD Athlon XP-M

LV 2200+

1.26 GHz, 992 MB RAM

**This laptop is maxed out at 1GB RAM.  Before I tried eboostr the system was noticeably slowing down.  In my attempt to try to correct the slowness I installed AnVir Task Manager.  That is when I discovered that my main problem was lack of memory.  In my daily computing I was consistently running at 100% memory usage, which caused large execution lag times.

Eboostr beta installed easily.  The user interface is easy to use.  I am using a 4 GB memory stick.  Since installation, my computer is running faster, and I am not experiencing noticeable lag times.  Eboostr has stabilized my memory usage at 65%.  According to AnVir I have not once maxed out my memory usage since installing Eboostr.

So far so good.  I’m going to test the effects of adding another memory stick before I upgrade to build 483.

Great App

Not had any problems so far and it has definately speeded my laptop up using a 2gig sd card :-)

very good results so far

I was hesitant on this initially. But I decided to give it a try because my old 8250 has only 768MB ram. This has put life back in the system now. I can’t believe that a good disk cache could make so much difference.

I haven’t had any issues with 3.0 beta so far.

Now some questions:

1. Is it possible to extend this concept to block level access rather than file level access?

2. many files don’t seem to be cached. Is there a specific rule that it uses to filter file access?

3. Can I train the filter to allow putting specific files (along with specific apps like it does now) in the cache (I have 4GB cache and I want it to use it fully, not 13%)?

4. It creates a 4GB file (I told it to use it all) on the 4GB flash drive formatted with fat32, and uses that as the store for cache (I think you have internal organization of cached files within that native file). Now, wouldn’t that create a fragmented file on the native fat32 FS? I know fragmentation is not a big issue with flash media because of low access times but its a scalability issue. 1 random access of 0.5ms vs. 10 random accesses of 0.5ms. It does add up. So, for optimal performance we would want to avoid any fragmentation on the native FS. OK, where is the question, you may ask….:-) The question is why does eboostr not use the native FS itself for storing cached files. Alternatively, why does eboostr not use the device as a raw device to format it in its internal format, store its files and not rely on the native FS at all? I know you may have done this to allow for part of the device to used for something else e.g. a user can store his photos on the same drive as well as eboostr cache. But is the raw device a possibility in the future?

I will bother you if I hit a beta issue. So far, it looks darn good!

Strange problem

I have Acer Aspire One A150 with Windows XP, computer itself has two memory card readers.

I have two SanDisk Extreme III SDHC cards (speed 20 MB/s 133x). Other is 8 GB and is 4 GB, both with same speed.

I used my 4 GB card with latest eBoostr and speed test showed that  the randow read speed is 18406 kb/s. That sounds perfect. I plugged my 8 GB card in and answered yes when the program wanted to create a cache file to that card. After speed test it showed that random read speed was about 14000 kb/s although larger memory card has exactly the same speed specs than 4 GB card. What can cause this difference? Is there some “size limit” or is eBoostr just unable to use larger memory cards fast enough?

After I reformatted 8 GB memory card and allocated only 5244 KB for eBoostr I got almost the same random read speed with both cards (a little more than 18000 kb/s). It seems that memory card is working properly.

Do you have any idea what could cause that random read speed drop with larger space?

New Year wishes

Christian S. from Finland

multiple partitions, same device

is Eboostr aware of multiple partitions on the same root device?

Eg if a large memory stick is devided into multiple partitions with 2GB cache files on it. Is it aware that they are technically contigious? If not this might be a useful feature

Speeding up IE7/IE8

I am using eBoostr on my XP SP3 laptop, and am impressed with the way that it seems to have made it faster.  Outlook 2007 especially seems more responsive, although I am not too sure if it actually starting up any quicker.

So, I have tried adding my most often used apps (on my laptop) to the priority list, including Outlook 2007 and Intenet Explorer.  I would like to learn more about how to configure eBoostr for the best results.

I am using IE8 RC1, and was wondering if I have added it to the list properly.  The item that I have added is “Launch Internet Explorer Browser”, so I am unsure if this is actually the IE executable itself. 

IE8 does not seem to start any faster.  This may be due to me using IE7Pro and Google Toolbar.  How can I add these to the list as well?

Has anybody got any tips on making eBoostr make IE start-up faster, especially when using addons such as IE7Pro and Google Toolbar?

Cheers

release 473

For my config the best one was the 473 and everytime i upgrade to a new version it is slower than 473. Not any trouble but slower

Hope i could get the 473 as release candidate. Would the def  licence work with the 473 on 15 january.

Big question

Hard Drives showing eBoostr Control Panel cache drives window

My Local Hard Drives showing eBoostr Control Panel cache drives window over night.

See below:

I checked my XP system, yesterday and the hard drives were NOT showing.

The system runs 24 x 7.

The ‘HAM_RADIO’ hard drives can not deleted or be removed by any method.

WARM BOOTING the XP system makes the phantom hard drive displays disappear.

Build 483: mixing System Memory w/flash confuses speed test & cache building

I tried to run the speed test with a 2GB flash and 512MB of RAM cache, and the speed test apparently hung during the prepare stage. Trying to remove the RAM cache afterwards had some delay; had to fiddle with disabling it and stopping any cache build.

Vista x64 SP2-beta

Suggestion: disable Superfetch & Readyboost on install

At install time on Vista/2008, the services for Superfetch and Readyboost should be disabled by the installer, and on uninstall, should be turned back on.