By Crisse | January 1st, 2009 |
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
By Vengence | |
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
By Jason404 | |
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
By pmal | |
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
By davebt34 | |
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.
By Michael Adams | December 31st, 2008 |
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
By Michael Adams | |
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.
By fcpk | |
I had eboostr working on one of my usb keys, and someone accidentaly unplugged it.
When I plugged back the key in, eboostr kept the old entry marked as non working(/!\ symbol) but also added a new working one.
OS: Windows Server 2008 x64
By skumagai | |
I am using ThinkPad X60 with Vista SP1,memory3G.When eBoostr Ver.3.0 build 483 is installed, and it reboot,bluescreen appeared, and it shut down suddenly. The event has not occurred after it uninstalls it in a safe mode. Main memory1G bytes was allocated as a cash device in 3G bytes memories.
By papaluv2000 | |
I was wrapping up what I thought was a great run using eBoostr ver 3.0.479, when I terminated the application after having searched for a new update, while build 479 was running and did so without a hiccup. My intentions were to download and install the latest build but first I poked around all the files in the program files directory and the “AllUsers.Windows\Application Data\eboostr” directory.
1) I opened filestat.dat with emEditor and I got an error message that the file had been changed since I had opened it and if I would like to update it. I said yes and it happened a few more times as I opened the “Task Manager” and After CLOSING eBoostr application, I witnessed the cache generator for eboostr still running, that app is none other than –> EBstrSvc.exe. I had to terminated the process from the task manager.
2) Also it looks like application.ini worked OK, however it appears with the number 1000 before each task path, is this a priority assignment? So I am making the assumption that the order of the list is irrelevent, as the advantage comes from being in the list itself, is this correct? Shouldn’t the apps in the list have a priority within the list, whether that means a higher life span within the cache or some other representative way of handling a list of prioritized apps?
3) I concur with another beta tester regarding a missing a “settings.ini” file in the Application Data folder, nor in the root install folder. However I never had the version he had installed on my system, so therefore it is not missing if it was never there to begin with….unless of course it is supposed to be; in which case I am pointing out that it is not there.
I am running Windows XP with 1.5MB RAM on a Dell XPS m1210 core-2-duo Laptop and a 16gb USB stick (13GB free space) with the first cache setup from RAM at 382MB and the Second Cache setup for 2048MB or RAM. I had 14 apps in the prioritized list.
Is there any recommended testing the developers are looking for us to do specifically? Regression tests, longevity/load/stress testing? idiot proof testing? Please let us know.
Thanks,
Papa…..
Mad Luv 2 all our soldiers!
