Re: [amibroker] Re: Sluggish mouse in Formula editor, AmiBroker Email List Archive

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Keith McCombs <kmccombs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For a better Task Manager, you can try Process Explorer,
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx

One of the things you can do with it, is display the priorities of all your running processes. And also observe when they are busy (which may be causing your trouble).

BTW, my laptop was making hard drive seeking noises for about 10 seconds, EVERY 30 seconds. Very annoying!! I discovered, using PE, that a Java process, jqs.exe, was doing it, even when I was running no Java programs at the time. I suspended it, and so far, no problems. InteractiveBrokers TWS uses Java, but it seems to display stock prices in simulated trading mode Ok (that's all I've tried so far).

-- Keith

Jan Riek wrote:

reinsley

That is the very problem I have with explorer in XP & Vista.

Any info on how to improve or eliminate this would be very helpful. TIA

Jon

--- On Tue, 5/26/09, reinsley <reinsley@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: reinsley <reinsley@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Sluggish mouse in Formula editor
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 5:03 AM

Hi,

I draw your attention on explorer.exe

Sometimes explorer.exe takes between 55 and 95% of cpu load. (Xp Vista...)
Explorer build an index of the sub-directories.

If so, there is an easy solution in killing a register.

BR

Herman a écrit :
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> Good idea. I will work with my Task manager open for awhile. Actually
> this is quite interesting. AB never seems to take it above 50% CPU
> Usage. Would be nice to be able to read some of the performance
> indicators from afl :-)
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> The trouble with cleaning up applications is that most of their names
> are cryptic and have to be Googled to find out what they are and whether
> they can be removed. I got into trouble doing that before...
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> There are some non spyware programs that are real pigs. Firefox can be
> one, depending on what web sites it has loaded (any one in a tab,
> doesn't have to be the one your looking at, and Firefox can even be
> minimized). I also had problems with AVG 8.0 paid version and
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> Use Windows Task Manager to see what may be using up all your CPU or
> Memory. When my computer gets really slow, it is usually do to Firefox
> (mentioned above) or mixer.exe hogging memory. Usually mixer.exe is
> only using maybe 5Meg or memory, but once every few weeks or so it will
> just go wild and just keep grabbing more and more memory until I 'End
> Process' it using Windows Task Manager.
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> If you run Windows Task Manager minimized, there is still a small icon
> near the clock which indicates CPU usage. Take a look and see if it
> correlates with your mouse problem.
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> -- Keith
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> I have had that happen to me in the past and after running my favorite
> spyware program and it did indeed remove a few, the problem went away.
> Not to say this is your problem, but just an idea.
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