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For me, by far!!!, the bottleneck is the hard drive --- even though I
have a 7200 rpm ultra-100 version. I can see the hard disk light
staying on chugging away, chug, chug, chug, chug. I have 512 megs of
RAM. It just appears that MetaStock likes to write out a whole heck of
a lot of temporary stuff to the hard disk, and that takes a huge amount
of time.
Solutions???:
1) MetaStock will have to rewrite the program so that all 'temporary'
work can be written to RAM, not the hard disk;
2) 15,000 rpm ultra-160 hard disk
Nicholas
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of neo
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 2:11 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Metastock speeding up + hardware?
>From a hardware standpoint, by far the slowest link is the hard drive. A
flash RAM hard drive would help a lot but they are expensive and hard to
find. Suggest decent speed CPU and 256M RAM.
neo
At 06:11 PM 11/7/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Hello List,
>
>Which way is the best way to go about speeding up optimization in
Metastock?
>A. Fast disk, B. A lot of RAM, C. CPU?
>
1) Optimizing your code is probably the most effective.
2) Reduce the opt ranges by running two at a time and reducing them to a
narrower range around their optimum values is another way. If later some
of your optimizations return limit values you can shift the ranges to
ensure proper margins.
By halving the number of tests you cut your time in half, so range
reduction is the best way - and it doesn't cost anything :-)
Good luck,
Herman.
>Also, is it possible to run 2 separate instances of Metastock at the
>same time? A. Under the same OS,
>B. Under the same OS, but on 2 separate (physically) drives
>C. Have 2 separate physcial drives with Windows+Metastock installed on
each
>and run them at the same time. I've no idea whether this is possible,
for
>all I know software like Partition Magic lets you choose which OS to
boot
>from, not run both OSs at the same time on the same machine.
>
>Thanks, and all the best
>Yarroll
>
>
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