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superfragalist,
>P4 with at least 500 megs of RAM. If you can afford 2 gigs of
>ram, you can set up MS to run on a ram disk and you'll see a huge
>speed improvement.
Ok then a P4 with 1 gig of on board memory with a 2 gig hard drive
should work then. And if I want to make things run even faster you
say download http://www.cenatek.com/product_ramdisk.cfm and then run
MS that way, will give it a shot.
>Most MS speed issues intraday are based on the I/O pipe. Esignal
>doesn't have the fastest data feed in the world, and MS has a lot of
>problems when the data isn't there on time.
Really - I thought Esignal was a good data provider? I find them
better then Qcharts - if that's the case man there seems to be not
one data vendor out there with a good clean accurate feed.
>The shorter the time period, the more data points or the more I/O
>calls on a chart, the more problems for MS.I can open somewhere
>four indicators on them. However, any period under sixty minutes,
>say 5 minutes, I usually open 10 or fewer charts. If Esignal is
>humming along, I might open 15 charts.The point is there is more
>than one problem with MS and speed. In general, the fewer data
>points you need and longer the time frame, the more charts you can
>open.
(For intra day live charts) Ya I know it seems that MS has
absolutely no ability to refer to the past. Each new bar MS has to
recalculate ever loaded bar - really stupid if you ask me you think
that MS could simply "remember" the moving average of two bars ago
and pull it from memory. But is does not, MS re-calculates all
formulas (and even has to re-load the price data) for each and every
bar for however many bars are loaded into the chart - then before
the calculation returns, it looks up the value two positions back in
the data array. At the end of the next bar it does that all over
again - no memory or use of prior values because there is no storage
or provision to keep anything. If they corrected this issue I bet MS
would fly.
I will look into the ram disk software hopefully that will help -
because I do run 5min thru 10min charts at once and I would like to
run 5 to 10 of them to. I have been clocking the amount of time it
takes to go thru the bars each time MS recalculates and I'm not
happy with the values anywhere from 20 sec's to a minute, that does
not help me when time is key. Hopefully your suggestions will
improve MS performance.
Thanks for the advice
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