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I have a fair bit of crap (err...ah... excellent 3rd party software) on my
NT machine and it still works just fine with TS2Ki, eSignal, eudora email,
Lotus 123, Excel, MSword, and 3-4 IE 5.0 browser windows running. The key
to stability on my system was to add Diskeeper 5.0 from Executive Software
with automatic defrag set to happen between 1am and 6am every night. I
don't have any games installed on my machine, just MS Office 97, Lotus 123,
and a few other utility and graphics packages which I never run during
trading hours. I had McAfee antivirus installed briefly but that made the
system very unstable, so I went back to relying primarily on
F-PROT (available free for individual home use from www.complex.is) for
virus protection. -uf
At 12:40 PM 9/4/99 -0700, you wrote:
>On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Martin Warlich wrote:
>
> > S-O-R-R-Y, but I use this beast realtime running every day and night
> since it has
> > become available here in Germany in April.
>
>I'm glad to hear it! There is hope for us all.
>
> > Just to get things right: of course *I* reboot the system every weekend
> doing disk
> > defragmentation, virus scans etc., but I never had a crash using TS.
> The key for
> > stability is to have an absolute clean NT system with service pack>=4
> because of
> > the updated ODBC drivers and no other software installed than TS and
> datafeed
> > software: no betas, no shareware, no games, no.... you get it.
>
>Ahhh... Now we are getting to what one has to do to get it to run.
>
>I found that TS4 runs *much* better in a dedicated, empty machine.
>Perhaps TS2k would also be better on a dedicated machine.
>
>Are the folks reporting good operation doing very little else on the
>machine?
>
>Are the folks having trouble doing other things - surfing the net (this
>has been the primary cause of most non-code-development troubles on my
>non-TS machines), running Office, playing games <g>?
>
>If not, what *are* the differences between those folks who get it to run
>and the ones having lots of trouble?
>
> > So, there are no **stability** problems with TS2k, BUT the thing is
> >
> > S_L__OO___WWWW like hell !!!
>
>How many symbols, charts; how much chart complexity? These factors may
>also help define what is practical to do with TS2k.
>
>
> > Of course, we all know that besides of speed there are a lot of other
> things that
> > should be done by Omega to improve their software, especially regarding
> the 4-plot
> > limitation, global variables, double precision math, continuous
> intraday contracts,
> > plotting in subgraphs etc...
>
>It would seem that 2k is mostly just a repackage of TS4, with more eye
>candy added. We'll have to wait for improvements in functionality - they
>don't contribute to the glitz, they just help traders.
>
> > I don't care if you think I'm a newbie, an Omega-fan, a Cruz-employee
> or what else
> > you might think. These are just my experiences, I'm sure you have your's.
>
>Hey - I don't care what you are <g> - thanks for the info...
>
>Larry
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