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[amibroker] Re: Vista users and memory



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Another Win Vista performance enhancement (that may already be well known) is that Windows Defender - the built in virus checker - is enabled by default.  You can disable the real time virus checking mode.  

I found this helped performance considerably when I am receiving real time data from IQFeed.

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--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Henrik Rasmussen <hrasmussen@xxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks for that tip TJ.
> 
> Rik Rasmussen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2009/7/31 Tomasz Janeczko <groups@xxx>
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Those who run Vista, and striving for memory should turn OFF DWM(
> > Desktop Window Manager) a.k.a "Aero" interface.
> > BTW: DWM turned off is the *default* setting for Windows Server 2008.
> > For good reason.
> >
> > Why? Simply because DWM takes tremendous amounts of memory for
> > its eye candy. It is quite normal than DWM takes several hundreds of
> > megabytes of RAM
> > and the value shown in the Task Manager is only HALF of the memory
> > it actually uses. Why? Because it keeps DOUBLE copies of EACH window
> > and each bitmap in the system. One copy in system RAM and one copy
> > on graphic card memory and copies back and forth.
> >
> > Microsoft was well aware of this problem and they addressed it in Windows 7
> > which keeps only one copy of graphics and leads to 50% decrease in memory
> > consumption
> > by DWM as compared to Vista.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Tomasz Janeczko
> > amibroker.com
> >
> >
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