RE: Pentium 4 slowness?

["Richard Dale" <rad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have also found that under Windows NT/2000/XP that certain things like
Expert Advisors seem to "thrash" the disk especially when they're
complex.

This looks to be a design flaw in Metastock.

The Metastock database format is the real culprit.  It takes me about 4
minutes to update an entire day's US market data (about 12000 symbols)
yet I can write 12000 records in a database format in about 15 seconds.

Cheers,
Richard.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Kormanik [mailto:nkormanik@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2002 2:50 AM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Pentium 4 slowness?



Seems to me that the biggest bottleneck is disk access.  Best to have
lots and lots of memory, and a very, very fast disk system.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Dale
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 8:09 AM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Pentium 4 slowness?


I've found that converting your file system to NTFS slows down the
Metastock file format.  Use FAT where possible with Windows NT, Windows
2000 and Windows XP to speed up your Metastock performance.  (Of course
you'll lose out on some file system functionality this way too but blame
Computrac in the 1980's when they decided to put one stock in each
file!)

Best regards,
Richard.

-----Original Message-----
From: voltage [mailto:voltage@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2002 2:47 AM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Pentium 4 slowness?


I have upgraded my PIII 800Mhz Operating System  from Windows 98 to
Windows 2000 Professional and have noticed that the data download times
are twice as long.WHY????????????


----- Original Message -----
From: "John M Stec" <stec@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 2:45 AM
Subject: Pentium 4 slowness?


> I run an IBM NetVista Pentium 4 (1.3GHz) with 640 MB memory, Windows 
> 2000 pro and v7.2 MetaStock with a build date of 3-20-2001.
>
> I notice that my more complex system tests take TWICE as long to run 
> on
this
> machine as they do on my 450MHz PII as well as my Celeron 600MHz 
> laptop. I defrag the drives, etc and notice no slowness on other apps.
>
> Any ideas why??? I have reported this previously to MetaStock support 
> on
the
> phone. They tell me that there have been recent similar reports but 
> they thought that it was due to the XP O/S, but then I said that since

> most XP machines are also running P4's they said that the P4 may be 
> the issue and they would look into that, but no reply after a month.
>
> Anyone else done speed tests on P4 vs PII or PIII and/or Celerons?
>