New version

Where is it? (its been 2 days since the RC was supposed to be released…)

xp – slow shutdwon

I have an HP Pavillion zv6130us amd64x2 2.0ghz 1.25gb ram.

startup is much faster – about 150 seconds versus about 420 seconds with eboost, BUT!!!!

Shutdown takes forever with it on.  It takes about 90 seconds b4 I even SEE the question aboutshutdown/retstart/logoff.

Then it takes about 3-4 minutes to shutdown which it finally does, but sometimes it’s awkward waiting when I am in a hurray to get going.

results beta3 and 4

I`ve been using beta3 en 4 without encountering any blue-screens, so I`m of no use at all. My opinion: my old fujitsu amilo seems to act a little faster, even measuring shows different speeds for the same program.

Autoinstall of Beta4 worked without trouble.

I`ve never had any performance setback or other computerproblems while having eBoostr installed and running from the USB-stick.

What I didn`t understand; using eBoostr cache viewer sometimes doesn`t produce a file output (the same in Beta 3 and 4).

Whising everyone success . Werner

scientific eboostr speed evaluating

Rightly, someone said to me to measure the eboostr speed in a scientific way, instead of talking about my bad feeling about the speed decrease of the beta4 release. Here there are my tests.
Config: Asus a4ka Mobile Workstation, athlon64 3200+, 2gb ram kingston, usb 2.0, winxp pro sp2 automatically updated, firefox web browser, usb 2.0 transcend jetflash memory jf v30/4gb, eboostr beta4, 3gb cache allocated.

The system starts this way:
37 sec. from Asus black bios screen to WinXp starting blue screen, and 73 sec. from this moment to system started and ready (no activity on the HD and the flash USB memory). Tot 110 sec. (eboostr didn’t measure this starting value? i can’t find this measure now in the measures.txt). Time calculated using a watch chronograph, the reboot was made after a “clear” session (ran only eboostr test, and no other applications). With the beta 2 the best time was 96 sec.; the average time is 130 sec. (by the previous release of the eboostr boot speed measuring tool).

The following speed values are calculated by the beta 4 measuring tool. The system had no other active or opened application. I call this a “clear” measure. But in real life, i use three or four applications together, while one app is running or calculating something i use another one. I call this “real working”. In the future, i’ll try to use the eboostr measuring tool while working in real conditions.

Thursday, October 18, 2007 09:25:56
Random read access speed. Device J: – 12834158 KB/s

Friday, October 19, 2007 16:31:24

Direct access speed: 5.062146 MB/s

Cache enabled access speed: 16.557066 MB/s

Ratio: 3.270761

Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:18:40

Direct access speed: 5.613103 MB/s

Cache enabled access speed: 17.240723 MB/s

Ratio: 3.071514

Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:38:41

Direct access speed: 6.080126 MB/s

Cache enabled access speed: 17.295143 MB/s

Ratio: 2.844537

Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:16:54
D:\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE

Pass 1 of 5. Direct access 4078 ms
Pass 1 of 5. Cache enabled 2641 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Direct access 4079 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Cache enabled 1750 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Direct access 1281 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Cache enabled 594 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Direct access 516 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Cache enabled 469 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Direct access 391 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Cache enabled 343 ms
Total direct access time: 10.35 sec
Total cached access time: 5.80 sec

Ratio: 1.78

Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:21:19
D:\ArchiCAD 11\ArchiCAD.exe

Pass 1 of 5. Direct access 34953 ms
Pass 1 of 5. Cache enabled 18968 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Direct access 32484 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Cache enabled 17891 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Direct access 31281 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Cache enabled 17797 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Direct access 32453 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Cache enabled 16531 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Direct access 30172 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Cache enabled 16671 ms
Total direct access time: 161.34 sec
Total cached access time: 87.86 sec

Ratio: 1.84

Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:28:16
D:\Photoshop CS\Photoshop.exe

Pass 1 of 5. Direct access 4250 ms
Pass 1 of 5. Cache enabled 4141 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Direct access 4156 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Cache enabled 4031 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Direct access 4000 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Cache enabled 4047 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Direct access 4109 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Cache enabled 4141 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Direct access 4094 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Cache enabled 4078 ms
Total direct access time: 20.61 sec
Total cached access time: 20.44 sec

Ratio: 1.01

Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:32:05
D:\Corel Graphics 12\Programs\CorelDRW.exe

Pass 1 of 5. Direct access 2312 ms
Pass 1 of 5. Cache enabled 1625 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Direct access 1953 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Cache enabled 1844 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Direct access 1860 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Cache enabled 1844 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Direct access 1844 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Cache enabled 1859 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Direct access 1875 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Cache enabled 1813 ms
Total direct access time: 9.84 sec
Total cached access time: 8.98 sec

Ratio: 1.10

Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:39:58
D:\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE

Pass 1 of 5. Direct access 4375 ms
Pass 1 of 5. Cache enabled 4250 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Direct access 4265 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Cache enabled 4297 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Direct access 4297 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Cache enabled 4297 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Direct access 4266 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Cache enabled 4313 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Direct access 4328 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Cache enabled 4313 ms
Total direct access time: 21.53 sec
Total cached access time: 21.47 sec

Ratio: 1.00

Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:42:47
D:\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE

Pass 1 of 5. Direct access 4312 ms
Pass 1 of 5. Cache enabled 4297 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Direct access 4312 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Cache enabled 4312 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Direct access 4297 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Cache enabled 4312 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Direct access 4312 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Cache enabled 4313 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Direct access 4266 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Cache enabled 4313 ms
Total direct access time: 21.50 sec
Total cached access time: 21.55 sec

Ratio: 1.00

Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:46:14
D:\Winamp\winamp.exe

Pass 1 of 5. Direct access 1625 ms
Pass 1 of 5. Cache enabled 1625 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Direct access 1609 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Cache enabled 1625 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Direct access 1609 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Cache enabled 1656 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Direct access 1609 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Cache enabled 1515 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Direct access 1609 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Cache enabled 1610 ms
Total direct access time: 8.06 sec
Total cached access time: 8.03 sec

Ratio: 1.00

Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:49:39
D:\Winamp\winamp.exe

Pass 1 of 5. Direct access 1625 ms
Pass 1 of 5. Cache enabled 1641 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Direct access 1563 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Cache enabled 1656 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Direct access 1641 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Cache enabled 1640 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Direct access 1625 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Cache enabled 1625 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Direct access 1641 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Cache enabled 1641 ms
Total direct access time: 8.10 sec
Total cached access time: 8.20 sec

Ratio: 0.99

Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:02:45

Direct access speed: 5.528864 MB/s

Cache enabled access speed: 17.059328 MB/s

Ratio: 3.085503

A couple of feature requests

eBoostr is a promising program and I feel it could be better if these two features were implemented:

1) Option to enable/disable boot caching. – Many people (myself included) on’t (re)boot often, so for them, boot acceleration is just a waste of cache space. That space could be used for caching something more useful.

2)  A tool/option to measure the flash drive’s speed and decide if it’s fast enough for eBoostr. – This option would be similar to the one in Vista’s ReadyBoost, and I feel it’s critical for eBoostr’s success. The market is flooded with too many cheap/low speed flash drives these days. :(

So far, so good

I downloaded and installed with no problem.  It easily found my flash drive, and prompted me to create cache, etc.  First impression is: my PC is noticeably faster.  I used a 512 mb flash drive – I assume I could change to a larger one if I want, and this will result in even better performance?

Anyhow, so far I’m quite pleased.

cache viewer beta 4 crash

I had beta3 installed with 1GB  of cache configured and filled with files, and after the upgrade to beta4, it reported the cache was empty. So I clicked “show cache  content” and it crashed the cache viewer.

But If I launch “c:\Program Files\eBoostr\cacheViewer.exe” it doesn´t crash and shows the cache empty.

Measuring speed

There’s been much discussion about speed measurement. A lot has been contradictory anecodotes and measurements. One person’s experience conflicts with another’s; one version is slower than an older version. I’ve had positive experiences but the fact that there are users who have not is troubling.

The only way to settle the speed improvement debate is to measure the speed before and after with third party software. Can anyone recommend a third party piece of software that could measure objectively eBoost’s speed?

eBoostr performances decreasing

beta 4: stability increasing, performances decreasing?

Since the eboostr beta 2 it seems to me the speed performance is decreasing. eboostr 2 was the best in system speed enhancing, then eboostr 3 was less useful, now eboostr 4 seems not to have significant effects on the system. my all applications seem to me to have returned to the pre-eboostr speed. is it only a feeling of mine or is it real?

Photoshop 8, ArchiCAD 11, The Battle for Middle Earth 2 seem to me to be now the same than before i installed eboostr.

increase in speed of loading web pages

tested web browsing with/without eboostr and noticed substantial increase in speed of loading web pages when eboostr is running…no longer need to use internet accelerator I had been using to speed up my web browsing