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Yes, as I hope I had communicated in messages via support, I was very very thankful for your assistance, especially as part of it came over the weekend.

I accept your apology, and am sorry too that we've had this (electronically induced) misunderstanding. 

Now, back to backtesting.

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@xxx> wrote:
>
> Sorry, but I did not know that you have posted in 9 days ago. FYI: I am _NOT_ doing group moderation.
> The post date was of today (August 30), so I thought it was posted today.
> And as such it looked to me like unjustified because the issue was resolved.
> 
> If you posted it 9 days ago, I appologize for my reaction.
> 
> And yes, I glad you mentioned that I assisted you through all the problem, on the Saturday and Sunday night
> (I was personally helping you starting from 6pm Saturday till 1am Sunday night my local time and then Sunday
> starting from 11 AM till midnight same day, even though support for weekends is closed), and the "simple sofware setting"
> was something that you did change on your own manually *after* setup / reinstall because 1000 is
> NOT the default setting for "max open positions. The default that is set after first-time install is 4.
> Yet you did not mention that you changed any settings after fresh installations.
> As I wrote you I can not see your computer, and you must describe everything you do in order to speed up the resolution of
> the issue. Without knowledge of cruicial changes to settings it takes way more time to do guessing work
> of what user did.
> 
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> amibroker.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "woodshedder_blogspot" <woodshedder_blogspot@xxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 11:54 PM
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Please Help, AmiBroker Crashing
> 
> 
> > Tomasz, I sent this message to the User's List over 9 days ago. When I sent it, the problem had not been resolved, and I was 
> > getting desperate to figure things out. I have no idea why the message posted well over a week after I sent it. As you recall 
> > Tomasz, I sent you two messages via support where I specifically asked you if you were going to post my message to the User Group, 
> > as it hadn't shown up a day or more after it was posted. You did not reply to my messages, but I can certainly forward them to you 
> > (and to the user group here) again to remind you that I inquired why my post wasn't available on the user's group. I erroneously 
> > assumed you chose not to post my messages to the User Group since the problem was resolved by support a day or two after I posted 
> > to the group.
> >
> > I am upset that you would state that I've resorted to "unjustified bashing" of AmiBroker. Truth be told, I publish a blog which 
> > receives over 30K hits a month, and I often sing the praises of AmiBroker. I have never mentioned your service or software as 
> > being anything other than the best. Perhaps I should alter that practice.
> >
> > Perhaps, instead of speaking highly of your software, I should mention that it took me practically begging you to help me before 
> > you got involved in a meaningful way to resolve my problem. Perhaps I should mention that on your advice, I reformatted my entire 
> > hard drive, and re-installed Windows, as you thought that Windows was the problem, only to find out afterwards that the problem 
> > was a simple software setting.
> >
> >
> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@> wrote:
> >>
> >> It was NOT any problem with AMiBroker just
> >> ridicolously high "max. open positions" setting set to 1000.
> >>
> >> With 26 years of EOD data and 10000 symbols that means
> >> 10GB of RAM!
> >>
> >> And of course he ran out of memory.
> >> Once "max open positions" is reduced to some value
> >> that actually makes sense (100 or less), there are no problems.
> >>
> >> The most annoying fact is that this issue was resolved
> >> via support channel weeks ago, yet AmiBroker is target of some unjustified bashing again.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Tomasz Janeczko
> >> amibroker.com
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "etoketrader" <etoke@>
> >> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 6:28 PM
> >> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Please Help, AmiBroker Crashing
> >>
> >>
> >> > Hi Woodshedder,
> >> >
> >> > are you the woodshedder from ibankcoin? I follow your blog :)
> >> >
> >> > I had lots of crashing issues until I (or rather, Tomasz told me to) set the in-memorey cache size (max. symbols) to 11 and 
> >> > max.
> >> > megabytes to around 850 (in preferences). While it means that AB will run generally slower because it will interact more to 
> >> > your
> >> > hard disk, it will not run out of memory, which was my main issue with AB when I started working with large databases.
> >> >
> >> > I also suspect that the beta is crashing more for you because the new format of the DB contains two more fields and results in 
> >> > a
> >> > larger DB. If you were on the verge before, you definately are over that limit now.
> >> >
> >> > cheers,
> >> > eToke
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "woodshedder_blogspot" <woodshedder_blogspot@> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm running Vista-32, 3gb RAM, on a Dell inspiron 1525. I use Norgate Premiumdata, US-history going back to 1985.
> >> >>
> >> >> I started with 5.20 but moved up through the betas as they were released, until the latest Alpha.
> >> >>
> >> >> AB has always hanged (even before using the betas) or went non-responsive, whenever I attempt to close the program, and 
> >> >> sometimes
> >> >> when I open the database to run the Norgate integration script. It has sometimes went non-responsive when running simple
> >> >> optimizations (never complicated ones). Typically this occurs as soon as the first step completes running. It almost always 
> >> >> has
> >> >> went non-responsive when switching between meta-stock format and local database.
> >> >>
> >> >> When I downloaded the Alpha, everything got much worse. It started during the installation process, when AmiBroker's auto 
> >> >> back-up
> >> >> program crashed. Then, it started crashing/hanging during almost every optimization.
> >> >>
> >> >> I have run Prime95, scandisk, and I defrag my disks regularly. I have never had any problems with this computer, which only 
> >> >> runs
> >> >> Tradestation, office suite, and mozilla, besides AmiBroker.
> >> >>
> >> >> I have moved the original AmiBroker folder, and re-installed 5.20. I have re-installed all of the Norgate/Premium data files.
> >> >>
> >> >> I am still getting crashes directly as the first optimization step finishes. I have been trying to problem-solve this for a 
> >> >> week
> >> >> now and am getting nowhere.
> >> >>
> >> >> Do I sound desperate to get this running again? I feel that way.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks for any help.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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