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Dear Group,
I am running TS 4.0 bld 23 on a P233 with Win NT 4.0 SP 3 --- this is not my main
TS machine, as I use this computer mainly for dedicated Internet access,
primarily the LOS Squawkbox. By the way, I upgraded from bld 21 to bld 23 a week
ago, and the upgrade worked flawlessly. Furthermore, I have been running TS 4.0
bld 21 on this machine for over a year now, and I don't remember having a single
crash. I initially loaded Win 98 followed by TS 4.0 bld 21 on this machine and
was unable to go a single day without a crash. After a week of that, I
reformatted my harddrive and installed Win NT and TS, and I don't recall it
crashing since.
As a result of reading this thread, I found the Diskeeper website, and on it was
a free download of Diskeeper 4.0 Lite
http://www.execsoft.com/dklite/download.htm
I downloaded and ran it. It first analyses the amount of disk fragmentation, in
both the C (DOS) and D (NT) drives, and thereafter defragments them. It found
that my C drive was slightly, but my D drive was heavily, defragmented, the
latter so much so that it said that the fragmentation would necessarily cause
substantial slowing of my computer analysis. (I have never before defragmented
this computer, which is a little over a year old.) Both the download and the
analysis/defragmentation went flawlessly. I recommend the program.
The Lite version is free. The full version I ran a price check on and found that
it was selling at discount on the Internet for around $40. As much as I can
determine, the only advantage for me for the full version is that is can do a
defragmentation automatically at a user-determined, pre-set time (as Ullrich
indicates below) --- the Lite version defragments only manually. For $40, I
figured I will defragment after the close of the markets on Friday afternoon.
For any Win NT user, Diskeeper Lite sounds well needed and a true bargain.
Sincerely,
Richard
Ullrich Fischer wrote:
> 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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