Hi,
It’d be great if you keep a list of known bugs here, updated regularly; it’ll save the testers from wasting time in stalking old issues, already confirmed by several others.
I did a search for “known issues”, did not find any link, that’s why writing this note.
Thanks,
Partha
Tested on XP SP3
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.10GHz
1GB of DDR2 RAM
384 MB Memory Cache
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Direct access speed: 17.00 MB/s
Cache enabled access speed: 844.89 MB/s
Ratio: 49.70
Tested on 2000 SP5
Intel Coppermine 800MHz
320MB of PC133/100 RAM
64 MB Memory Cache
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Direct access speed: 3.45 MB/s
Cache enabled access speed: 14.08 MB/s
Ratio: 4.08
E-boostr is a great app and has given my now slightly aging P4 2.9 Ghz (Single core), 1.5 GB generic memory, 2 x 250 GB IDE Hard
Disks, ATI X1650 Graphics 600 W Nexus PSU a definite boost, removed lag from my system nearly entirely, speeded up the start up
no beta issues still using build 479, going to upgrade to 483 before my next reboot!, using 512 of system memory and 2 GIG Verbatim
15 mb/s Flash drive
Happy new year !!!
I just noticed that when I turned my Acer Aspire One back on after XP was hibernated that drive D: (ebootered sdhc card) had to run a disk error scan when XP booted. Is anyone else having this problem? I am running version 483?
Thanks!
I amd unable to set the system memory cache lower than 64mb using the textbox, and no less than 256mb using the slider. Ignoring the discontinuity… is the low end of 64mb fixed regardless of the total memory in the system?
With 320mb of RAM, devoting 64mb to a cache, that for the moment does not seem to be size adaptive like the Vista counterpart, it actually begins to impact performance when using more memory intensive applications (and their combinations).
Photoshop on this system becomes a bit more sluggish, and so does Microsoft Word (don’t ask me why). This behavior becomes pronounced especially in the presence of Firefox 3 (for well documented reasons).
Now that there’s an exclusion list, will there be an inclusion list for the forcible inclusion of certain files?
This would help as I’d like to load my overly bloated shell32.dll (Stupid Vista Icon Pack :P) into memory, my icons load slowly.
But I digress, the Inclusion list would be an excellent feature, but for more advanced users.
Hello,
I noticed that after using my two SDHC memory cards with eBoostr, they were fragmented (checked with Windows XP’s own tool Disk Defragment).
Ok, I removed both cards from eBoostr caching and reformatted them. After that I added them again from eBoostr’s control panel. Then I let eBoostr to create a cache to those cards. Then I checked again Disk Defragment tool and was totally surprised… I realised that memory cards were already fragmented although the cache for eBoostr was just created on them. Fragmented file was eBoostr.dat, is this normal? Does Windows XP identify eBoostr’s cache files on memory cards as fragmented although they are not?
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.
Not had any problems so far and it has definately speeded my laptop up using a 2gig sd card :-)
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!
