By Richard Evers | October 5th, 2007 |
Gateway MX6424 Notebook
- Windows XP Pro SP 2
- 1 GB RAM
- 80 GB HD
- AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology ML-32
- 1.8 GHz processor speed
- 512 KB L2 Cache
- USB 4GB JetFlash
Used Microsoft Bootvis to optimize startup
Measured 76 second boot before installation of eBoostr Beta 2
Installed eBoostr Beta 2
Configured to set up a 2GB cache on USB flash drive
Measured 78 second boot after installation and configuration of eBoostr
Contents of measures.txt
Friday, October 05, 2007 21:10:51Direct access speed: 2.182812 MB/sec
Cache enabled access speed: 2.786230 MB/sec
Ratio: 1.276441
Last Windows startup time (boot and loading) was: 107.80 seconds
Friday, October 05, 2007 21:19:56
C:\Root\Software\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe
Pass 1 of 5. Direct access 17813 ms
Pass 1 of 5. Cache enabled 9187 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Direct access 7766 ms
Pass 2 of 5. Cache enabled 11563 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Direct access 11766 ms
Pass 3 of 5. Cache enabled 15953 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Direct access 8750 ms
Pass 4 of 5. Cache enabled 2718 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Direct access 13297 ms
Pass 5 of 5. Cache enabled 2125 ms
Total direct access time: 59.39 sec
Total cached access time: 41.55 sec
Ratio: 1.43
By Ethaniel | |
I have seen some inconsistencies in the cache, for example, files that I haven’t used in a while. I have also seen an mp3 file (why would anyone want to add an mp3 file to the cache?), part of an image mounted in Daemon Tools, the last restore point I made, and the installer (not the program in my C drive) of WinRAR that I keep in my secondary drive. I fail to see how those files can benefit from the cache, if I use them only from time to time. I believe there should be a “purge cache” function to clean the cache from any useless cached file (like an mp3).
By 8Sniper | |
I installed program w/o any problems and setted up 2 USB devices (1GB and 256MB). Must say that the difference between now and past few days is quite big. Must congrats to dev team for good made program.
By artamir | |
4.45 pm
I tried to install other cache on a 256 mb SD. It seems to be very very slow; the usb 2.0 is very much faster. I think the process is complete. By the SD seems to be so slow, i want to remove it. So i do. Something going wrong. Maybe the process was still running when i deleted the SD cache from the control panel? MSN Live messenger crash!
4.55 pm
MSN Live Messenger doesn’t run. I have to install it again. I restart the PC.
5.00 pm
Outlook express shuts down 2 or 3 seconds after the program starts. I’ve run the Outlook again, and again it crashed. eBoostr doesn’t start itself. There is no way to start eBoostr. I uninstall it and i install it again. I restart the PC as required.
eBoostr create the cache again. Everything seems to be ok.
I start Outlook. Outlook crashes down. Then the system crashed itself. For a while i saw a blue screen, reporting a memory problem. Now the system restarted, but the avast antivirus is disabled, and i can’t enable it. Outlook runs. There are no other troubles, at the time.
I try to restart again the WinXP.
5.10 pm
I restarted the WinXp. After the starting usual black WinXP screen, nothing happens. I restart the PC 3 times by the On/Off button. Then, I had the dos WinXP emergency start menu. I’ve choosen the last working saved configuration. The system has been taken to the pre-eboostr configuration that i saved yesterday. Now the system runs, outlook runs and everything seems to be ok. I’m very disappointed. I had the cache size set to 3 gb. Some ideas? What do i have to do now?
By GVW | |
Hi,
Just installed and seems to be working fine. Can’t say wheter or not it improves speed but building using a USB stick (256MB) worked fine.
I also have a kingston 512 SD card on spare and now trying to build the cache as we speek. Building on SD seems to go much slower than on USB (more than twice as slow :) for the bright with us).
So far so good though,
GVW
By hansdecocq | |
Install this day beta 2. Everything ok.
BEFORE I rebooted my machine ( as demanded) I tried to run the Speed measure tool first. That one responded with errors.
>>> Suggestion: you can check or there is a reboot performed and if NOT you could give a proper error screen. ( This where BETA are for :)I noticed a significant speedup in using internet. I Use Website-watcher with 100 site to check every now and then. It performed much quicker. Download site, check the content, mark changes etc.Startup of XP Prof. was the same on my PC xw6400 HP (8 processor kernels)).>>> I suggest making the performance indicators on the control centre more informative. Show in colors of figure the highest in de last xx time, or YYY cache hits or something like that. Now we only see a few green dots, to me very low informational. Make your success visibleStill happy
By jhead | |
Good program!
Installing it was very easy.
My Computer looks like to run a lot faster.
It a terrible pc with a 5400 RPM harddisk
(HP DX2000 P4 2.8 1GB 40 5400RPM harddisk)
Thanks
By tmennes | |
Thinkpad T43 pentium M 1,86Ghz IDE 40 Gb, 1 Gb ram , usb 2.0, Cruzer micro usb 2.0, WinXP professional
- installation: OK
- building cache: OK
- running: OK
- speed improvement: VERY NICE
By ivodijkgraaf | |
Where to download the Beta 2?
I do not see any download link.
By obsidian | |
here is my first test made with a sandisk cruzer micro 256mb
test
i noticed a decrease of performance with this beta, also a very long time to boot and load windows (slow pen drive?). i’m doing another test with a sd sandisk ultra II.
