`O&O CleverCache' Software experiences and comments

[Trish]

If anyone has any experience, comments, and recommendations about the `O&O
CleverCache' program, would very much appreciate your post. If the program
works as indicated, this would be an excellent software for every Computer.

http://www.oo-software.com/en/products/ooclevercache/

Thanks for all the replies.

Trish


O&O CleverCache V6 Professional is a unique tool that optimizes the File
Cache Management for Windows NT, 2000 and 2003 and Windows XP. This results
in an enormous increase in performance boosting a system's performance at
times to up to twice its original speed. All this is achieved without the
need for additional software or any reduction in your system's stability.
You simply install O&O CleverCache V6 and you’re ready to go – no need to
reboot. It automatically recognizes your configuration, and within 5 minutes
you can unlock the hidden resources on your Windows system! The more the
file cache grows, the less memory is available for running applications. The
result is a significant decrease in performance as requests for memory lead
to the so-called "swapping" of memory. This occurs when unused memory
segments are paged out to the hard disk's paging file. Because hard disk
access is slow relative to Memory, loss of performance is inevitable. O&O
CleverCache V6.0 Professional Edition is optimized to meet the day-to-day
needs of individual users. The software is optimized to run on Windows NT4
Workstation, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, and Windows
XP Professional.

 

[Robert Moir]

If anyone has any experience, comments, and recommendations about the
`O&O CleverCache' program, would very much appreciate your post. If
the program works as indicated, this would be an excellent software
for every Computer.

Only useful for users who have very specific needs, or who don't
understand how their computers work and believe anything a nice looking
website tells them.

It *does* work as "indicated" as far as I know, but in at least 99% of
cases, Windows XP is far better allocating cache and virtual memory by
itself without any help. At best you'll see a short term gain in
responsiveness "on the desktop" but you will do little to help long term
effectiveness, and indeed might hinder it.

And you need to be very careful of weasel words such as "up to" in a
product's description. Let's say I sell you a $1 ticket for a lottery in
which you can win "up to $1,000,000". Not bad eh? But... A single penny /
cent / $0.01 counts as "up to $1,000,000". Don't spend your winnings all
at once now.

Apply that knowledge to their "up to twice its original speed" statement
and see what you think of the guarantee now.

--
--
Rob Moir, Microsoft MVP for Security
Blog Site - http://www.robertmoir.com
Virtual PC 2004 FAQ -
http://www.robertmoir.co.uk/win/VirtualPC2004FAQ.html
I'm always surprised at "professionals" who STILL have to be asked:
"Have you checked (event viewer / syslog)".

 

[Ron Martell]

If anyone has any experience, comments, and recommendations about the `O&O
CleverCache' program, would very much appreciate your post. If the program
works as indicated, this would be an excellent software for every Computer.

http://www.oo-software.com/en/products/ooclevercache/

Thanks for all the replies.

Trish


O&O CleverCache V6 Professional is a unique tool that optimizes the File
Cache Management for Windows NT, 2000 and 2003 and Windows XP. This results
in an enormous increase in performance boosting a system's performance at
times to up to twice its original speed. All this is achieved without the
need for additional software or any reduction in your system's stability.
You simply install O&O CleverCache V6 and you’re ready to go – no need to
reboot. It automatically recognizes your configuration, and within 5 minutes
you can unlock the hidden resources on your Windows system! The more the
file cache grows, the less memory is available for running applications. The
result is a significant decrease in performance as requests for memory lead
to the so-called "swapping" of memory. This occurs when unused memory
segments are paged out to the hard disk's paging file. Because hard disk
access is slow relative to Memory, loss of performance is inevitable. O&O
CleverCache V6.0 Professional Edition is optimized to meet the day-to-day
needs of individual users. The software is optimized to run on Windows NT4
Workstation, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, and Windows
XP Professional.

The flaw in most such optimizing schemes is that they fail to
recognize that file usage is very often recursive - the files that
were previously used are very often needed again later. That is why
the file cache exists - so that the second, third, etc. time that a
file is needed it is available much faster.

Next time you start up your computer try timing how long it takes to
launch a major application such as Internet Explorer or Microsoft
Word. Then close the application, wait a few minutes, and open it
again and see how much faster it opens the second time. That is your
disk cache in operation.

Windows XP memory management always strives to maintain a balance
between disk cache size and pagefile usage, and in my opinion it
usually succeeds quite well.

It would take a series of timed benchmark tests in order to determine
if this particular product is able to provide any results that are in
fact beneficial.

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."

 

[Earl Addams]

Next time you start up your computer try timing how long it takes to
launch a major application such as Internet Explorer or Microsoft
Word. Then close the application, wait a few minutes, and open it
again and see how much faster it opens the second time. That is your
disk cache in operation.

What happens in a few minutes that doesn't happen in less than a
second?

Within that scheme of things, where does prefetch fit in?