Vista - Performance Issues

I am using a readyboost capable flash drive, which has improved performance.
Got me to thinking, if I got a large enough flash drive, could I use that
drive as my swap drive and would that improve performance as well?

Basically, that is what ReadyBoost is doing. It's caching part of your swap
file onto the flash drive. But, after you go with so high, there is a point
of diminishing returns. I've used a 1 GB and a 4 GB flash drive. No
difference in ReadyBoost performance.

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"Simpledog" <nospamcburnett002@san.rr.com> wrote in message
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>I am using a readyboost capable flash drive, which has improved
>performance. Got me to thinking, if I got a large enough flash drive, could
>I use that drive as my swap drive and would that improve performance as
>well?

Most of the articles that study Readyboost points out that more ram is
desireable. If you're getting a noticble boost from readyboost,t hen you
might want to consider getting more system ram. I think one article noted
that 4GB is the largest supported readyboost drive.

On to your question, I don't think you're allowed to make a flash drive you
pagefile, I thought I had trouble with it, when I tried, just for the heck
of it. Plus Flash drives are really good at small 4k reads and large
sequtial reads are better on the hard drive. There was a Microsoft article
on it somewhere.

Here's a pretty good article that does some benchmarks, this always shows
how real ram give s the best performance over readyboost.
http://www.anandtech.com/systems/sho...spx?i=2917&p=5



"Simpledog" <nospamcburnett002@san.rr.com> wrote in message
news:4A39781D-EE81-4048-AF97-73A33FC91EBB@microsoft.com...
>I am using a readyboost capable flash drive, which has improved
>performance. Got me to thinking, if I got a large enough flash drive, could
>I use that drive as my swap drive and would that improve performance as
>well?

I found readyboost actually caused hiccups in frame rate as the device was
accessed.

Could it be because I was using a SD card in a reader? It came up as being
suitable for RB to use.

Joe

"Dale White" <dale.white@NOinsightbb.NOcom> wrote in message
news:O2bRO0leHHA.4064@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>
> Most of the articles that study Readyboost points out that more ram is
> desireable. If you're getting a noticble boost from readyboost,t hen you
> might want to consider getting more system ram. I think one article noted
> that 4GB is the largest supported readyboost drive.
>
> On to your question, I don't think you're allowed to make a flash drive
> you pagefile, I thought I had trouble with it, when I tried, just for the
> heck of it. Plus Flash drives are really good at small 4k reads and large
> sequtial reads are better on the hard drive. There was a Microsoft article
> on it somewhere.
>
> Here's a pretty good article that does some benchmarks, this always shows
> how real ram give s the best performance over readyboost.
> http://www.anandtech.com/systems/sho...spx?i=2917&p=5
>
>
>
> "Simpledog" <nospamcburnett002@san.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:4A39781D-EE81-4048-AF97-73A33FC91EBB@microsoft.com...
>>I am using a readyboost capable flash drive, which has improved
>>performance. Got me to thinking, if I got a large enough flash drive,
>>could I use that drive as my swap drive and would that improve performance
>>as well?
>
>

In article <99F2770C-68D5-4016-A01E-7851A188FDA9@microsoft.com>, Joe
says...
> I found readyboost actually caused hiccups in frame rate as the device was
> accessed.
>
> Could it be because I was using a SD card in a reader? It came up as being
> suitable for RB to use.
>
It's because it is way slower than RAM.


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