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If you are using 2g or above of RAM; virtually none.

It is only really suitable for improvement for early Vista Basic running
512MBs of RAM, and Home Premium running 1G RAM of RAM
 
Good morning,


What is roughly the gain using readyboost?
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The answer depends on how much RAM you have. With 2GB or more,
Readyboost almost always turns out to be very close to zero benefit.
With under 2GB, it can be useful.

However my view is that if you have less than 2GB, you are better off
spending your money for more RAM than for a USB thumb drive for
Readyboost. So the result is that I'm essentially against Readyboost
for almost everyone.
 
What is roughly the gain using readyboost?
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You received replies of "virtually none" and "i don't think your (sic)
going to see any gain at all". The standard replies to that question.


However, just think of all the utilities, apps, configuration
possibilities, etc. that have a cost, or no gain, in performance -
ReadyBoost, while not making anything noticeably better, does do
something, a something that is not detrimental.

That, by itself, outdoes about 90% (figuratively speaking) of what you
could do to your computer.
 
ReadyBoost, while not making anything noticeably better, does do
something, a something that is not detrimental.
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It is difficult to imagine the level of emptiness in one's head that
might be required to make such a statement.
 
gerooky said:
I don't like it when people of low intelligence try to play it smart.
therefore I will put you in your stinking place.
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Then why are you always attempting to do just that?
If small amounts do not matter, THEN:

please unscrew the bolts of your car wheels just a little,
short circuit your computer PSU with only a small hair-wire.
Cut your head off with a very thin light laser
Get some radiation so your DNA is altered just a bit
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Are you on drugs or just naturally fukked up?
 
It is difficult to imagine the level of emptiness in one's head that
might be required to make such a statement.
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A personal attack? Well, of course, that is the norm for this ng.
 
A personal attack? Well, of course, that is the norm for this ng.
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You're so empty-headed you can't even remember your name. Earlier
post from "franks" and now from "frank".
 
You're so empty-headed you can't even remember your name. Earlier
post from "franks" and now from "frank".
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That's true. And now back to "franks"

So, how about explaining Uncle Grumpy... relative to remembering
names.

Empty-headed (me) is way better than being empty-headed and a
smart-ass (you).
 
However my view is that if you have less than 2GB, you are better off
spending your money for more RAM than for a USB thumb drive for
Readyboost. So the result is that I'm essentially against Readyboost
for almost everyone.
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Yes - from what I remember, using Readyboost with Vista was discussed here
at some length about a year ago and the consensus that emerged was to avoid
Readyboost and buy extra RAM. Some of us had our thumb drives made unusable
when we tried it. If you still want to have a go I suggest you retain part
of the thumb drive space for normal use so you can access the drive to
reformat it. I gave the whole space to Readyboost and although I could see
the drive in the Computer folder, when I tried to reformat it I got a
message something like "Drive not found". After wasting a lot of time trying
to resuscitate it I ended up consigning an almost new 4GB thumb drive (quite
expensive then) to the bin.
Doug
 
What is roughly the gain using readyboost?
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don't disable ReadyBoost - or you will slow down Vista booting significantly,
because it includes (for some murky reasons) ReadyBoot.

Best 2 services to disable (performance-wise) are Indexing and Superfetch.
 
Hmm... well initially yeah I thought Readyboost made no difference at all...
but I still left a 1 gig drive stuck in there anyway just in case.

A few months later a kept getting "computer running low on RAM please close
some programs" messages, "excessive paging" msgs and my computer was slowing
down... I had no idea why becuase I was running a lot of memory intensive
programs including Google Earth, but nothing more than usual.

Then I realised my readyboost drive wasn't in, and that's when I realised
how much of a difference it made.
 
That's such a load of crap.

Josh

Andrew Rybenkov said:
don't disable ReadyBoost - or you will slow down Vista booting
significantly,
because it includes (for some murky reasons) ReadyBoot.

Best 2 services to disable (performance-wise) are Indexing and Superfetch.
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Hmm... well initially yeah I thought Readyboost made no difference at all...
but I still left a 1 gig drive stuck in there anyway just in case.

A few months later a kept getting "computer running low on RAM please close
some programs" messages, "excessive paging" msgs and my computer was slowing
down... I had no idea why becuase I was running a lot of memory intensive
programs including Google Earth, but nothing more than usual.
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Usually happens when you don't have a pagefile set - or it's not large
enough. Has nothing to do with Readyboost per se.
 
Some comments:

Most likely the "computer running low on virtual memory...." vice "RAM".
Major cause is not lack of RAM or virtual memory but an application or
utility not releasing resources to the memory manager. Quick solution,
other than determing application at fault, is to reboot.

Vista 32 bit will only use 2 - 3 gigs for system memory (Note: System
memory - not "working sets") regardless of amount of RAM.

Amount of RAM determines default setting of the page file (form of virtual
memory - the Memory Manager also uses virutal memory in utilizing RAM).
Defaulkt setting is 1.5 times amount of RAM.

ReadyBoost performance depends primarily on its Read/Write specs (or HD
specs - reason ReadyBoost is most effective on laptops))and type of
activity - non-sequential read/writes are directed to the ReadyBoost device
and sequential to the HD - in concert wsith Superfetch.

Little mentioned fact is that ReadyBoost works with Superfetch in
monitoring, over a period of time, startup appications and computer "usage"
to provide info for quicker startups and loading.

This info is also utilized by the Vista defrag processs to "move" the items
to beginning sectors on the HD - all to aid performance
 
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