Readyboost

[flexy]

I am starting to think i have more disadvantges using RB than without it.

Ever since, i use a 4GB USB stick w/ my Vista X64, 4GB of memory.

1) I recently started getting BSODS, referring to ecache.sys, which is readyboost.

2) After each boot it takes 7min (!) until the system is quiet, thats readyboost rebuilding a cache.

3) Shutdowns take forever too, 7mins max can happen.

Especially the recent BSODs make me wonder what the actually benefit is.

(Yes, i reformatted USB stick and also checked for errors, its clean)

G.

 

[postmortemIA]

2) seems like superfetch

 

[hans030390]

Then don't use it?

 

[PepperBreath]

ReadyBoost is only really useful on systems with <2GB of RAM. More than that and the difference is virtually nil.

 

[Roguestar]

If you've got 4GB of RAM, why bother? No need for a slightly-faster page file if you're not hitting the page file.

 

[stash]

Originally posted by: PepperBreath
ReadyBoost is only really useful on systems with <2GB of RAM. More than that and the difference is virtually nil.

It's only useful on systems with the minimum RAM, 512MB. There are minor benefits on systems with 1GB. Anything more than that, Readyboost has no benefits.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: stash

Originally posted by: PepperBreath
ReadyBoost is only really useful on systems with <2GB of RAM. More than that and the difference is virtually nil.

It's only useful on systems with the minimum RAM, 512MB. There are minor benefits on systems with 1GB. Anything more than that, Readyboost has no benefits.

In its current incarnation, it is indeed of very limited utility in systems with a decent amount of memory. If it were to support decently fast and large internal flash drives that didnt flush themselves every reboot, I'd see it as a useful idea for all.

 

[flexy]

yes i pulled my nice Patriot 4GB USB now....i had so many BSODS the last days. Do a google search for "ecache.sys BSOD"...i am not the only one.

For me RB really introduced a LOT of problems, as i posted earlier..VERY long startup-times, superfetch/RB building the cache on the stick...very long shut-down times. Still i could live with it.....but the BSODS are just too much. It must've been a recent Win update since i didnt have those problems earlier.

 

[Marty502]

I don't notice a damn thing with 2 GB of bloody old DDR ram and readyboost, why do you bother with 4 GB?

In the other hand, my girlfriend's laptop with 1 GB of RAM gets a lot more responsive with the readyboost stick.

 

[Evander]

I'm starting to think the same thing but for different reasons. After waking Vista from hibernate, more than half the time I have to reinsert the SD Card in order for Windows to recognize it, and every now and again the readyboost cache completely disappears (despite file explorer showing that the space is being used) and I have to reformat the sd card. I have 2.5 GB of RAM so I don't really know how much good it's doing me anyway.

I though the issues were taken care of after updating the media card driver and after SP1, but I guess not