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.
http://www.eboostr.com/beta/downloads/
That page says 486 not 487.
Will we be able to keep release 484 as def after february 1 because this is the best for all my computer
I’ve been trying build build 486\487 on my Vista64 Home premium (partially vlited) , upgrading from builf 484.
Some how the eBoostr service refuse to start. Try to start manual via service but with no success.
I’m wondering if anyone experiencing similar symptom. In evenviewer I get:
“System Exception -529697949 in eBoostr Service.” – EventID 6
Does eboostr require specific service to be running in vista?
With build484, it was working rather seamlessly and it started to happen when I tried 486 and also with 487.
Any idea would be appreciated.
I have noticed with past cache and this one being no exception, that at least on my system it caches items not even important. Or it will build on an entire item (program). With these items I need to put them in the exclude list and rebuild cache again. Examples of entire programs would be, Avast anti virus, ebooster, disk cleaner, windows media player, mcaffee site advisor, windows defender,windows fonts, and so on. And I guess what is really surprising is the fact that when you look at the cache for application priority there really is nothing there for the programs that I have listed. I guess my question is why ebooster does not load more window system files and the files that are listed in application priority?
Good news – the tray icon now works for my EeePC 701 on Win XP SP3. On all previous versions it was mysteriously non functional.
In addition to the 512mb cache on the internal card reader’s Kingston 8GB SDHC (read speed 16-19mb/s) I’ve purchased a Sandisk Cruzer Micro U3 drive that is advertised as Vista ReadyBoost optimised, with a read speed of 25mb/s. Eboostr’s control panel reports the speeds quite faithfully with the U3 delivering no less than 23mb/s at any time. With 2 usb devices (and the faster U3 flash drive) I noticed a considerable decrease in boot time and XP startup programs processing.
Startup from zero-power to XP functional was in the region of 2 minutes before (thanks to having 2 antivirus programs), and now its just over a minute.
One thing that really need to be added.
The most acceleration is achieved on small files, so it doesn’t really need to cache big files. I think it must be an exclude rule: “Exclude files bigger then”
Sorry for my English. My native is Ukrainian.
See post: http://www.eboostr.com/closedbeta/feedback/new-files-being-created-after-upgrade-to-486/
The files are still being created and sometimes not deleted (there are always between 3 and 12 of the etilq……. files present).
I also noticed that the badlnk.dat file content is not changing anymore since build 486. In previous versions it was changing together with the filestat.dat file.
is this correct/related?
