2000i: %CPU Usage by Popular Real Time Feed S/W

[Alan Mi <ami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think a lot of stock traders would be interested in
knowing this. If your 2000i uses the following feeds to
collect real-time data for 1,000 or more symbols of the most
actively traded stocks on NT4.0, could you reply to the list
with some performance statistics on CPU percentage usage by
feed software (overhead) and GS?

- PCQuote's Hyperfeed (Internet)
- DBC eSignal (Internet)
- DBC Signal (broadcast)
- BMI (broadcast)
- DTN (broadcast)

Let's take the stats at 20 minutes into the session, Monday
hopefully but not limited to. Please tell us your CPU speed
(dual processor or not), number of symbols for which data
are collected (check the Symbol Collection Template along
with GS portfolio categories), and 2000i Service Pack
number. For broadcast feeds, tell us the transmission media
(Satellite/Cable/FMRadio). Make sure that the CPU are not
constantly running at full capacity of 100% when you take
the stats, or else the data would not be comparable.

To do this, Ctrl-Alt-Del to get to the NT task manager.
Click on the Processes tab. Eyeball the CPU column top to
toe to spot large CPU cycle consuming processes. Skip those
that are OR processes except Server.exe. Report for
Server.exe and feed software: DBC Submanager may be
winros.exe and I don't know about other feeds. If you don't
know which is, report all those whose CPU usage is not 0 and
that are not in the following OR process list.

OR processes: (Server.exe, ORTrade.exe, TS32.exe, ortc.exe,
ORQuote.exe, ORPlog.exe, oredit.exe, orschd.exe, GSW32.exe.
I don't know the rest of the OR processes. At least there is
one for OptionStation. Not all are present, depending what
you are running.)

Even if you don't report, this is a good exercise that
familiarizes you with what's going on and who may be going
wild. Put NT Task Manager in your StartUp folder so that you
will have a CPU load  indicator on your taskbar's right end
all the time.

If you are a 4.0 user and meet all the rest of the
requirements, you are welcome to contribute too.

Bear in mind that lots of us are on the digest format and
won't see it till the end of the day in one lumped email;
avoid overflood the list with the same setup.

Thank you for reporting on behalf of all interested stock
traders!