eBoostr Trial: memory upgrade
Testing of eBoostr (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/2008/05/eboostr-trial-need-for-speed.html) appeared to have been steamrolled by my enthusiasm for ritePen + nirCmd (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/2008/07/ritepen-nircmd-cracking-xml-file.html), but in fact it has progressed thanks to my recent windfall. I'm now rocking 4 GB of RAM (bought from MemoryTen (http://www.memoryx.net/pa3411u2m2g.html)) and the results have been... quite minimal actually.
Not sure what exactly I should have been expecting, but I'd thought the effects of bumping up from 1GB to 4GB would be more pronounced. I am noticing some improvement, but even with page filing turned off, I wasn't seeing rocket speeds. So I did some tooling.
First thing I did was add an eBoostr disk cache to the system memory. This cranked up the cache read, but nothing major happened system-wise.
Next, I adjusted my prefetch to only fetch boot files. Supposedly this cuts boot time but increases load time for applications. To offset this, I narrowed eBoostr's scope via the exclude list, putting the emphasis on applications. The result is a cache system with prefetch handling boot files and eBoostr handling applications. Not seeing tremendous snap as a result, but eBoostr's cache reading has improved tremendously. Need to keep an eye on this.
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eBoostr Trial: memory upgrade
posted by Sumocat at 7/08/2008 05:52:00 PM
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