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Be aware that if you leave the portfolio box open in TS4, you will lose a
lot of ticks. I have experimented with this on both fast and slow computers
and have found this to be the case. I believe this has been covered in the
past on this list in great detail. Unfortunately TS4 hogs all the available
CPU time to capture ticks, regardless of which OS you are using. If anybody
is getting different results, let me know.
The points about RAM are very important. Just running Windows 98 without
really loading any programs and you are up to about 64MB RAM. If you start
opening programs and you only have 64MB of physical RAM, you will be using
the hard drive swap file on a regular basis, which will lead to much slower
overall system performance. Best performance gain is to install more RAM as
Nick states below. I have used many of the RAM memory boosters, and have
found that the best is AnalogX's MaxMem www.analogx.com - which is also
free. This site also has a large number of other free utilities which I find
useful.
Patrick White
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----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Malzahn
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 7:27 AM
Subject: computer technicals
Ted,
looking at your hardware, I suspect you run TS4 (not TS2k) under Win9x (not
WinNT or Win2000).
If so, do an experiment:
Start Omega Server; you will notice CPU-usage increasing to almost
100% and staying there.
Now open the menu "File"; you will probably notice that CPU-usage
drops to (in my case (Celeron 333MHz)) about 10%;
Open (let's say) "Symbol Portfolio" and leave it open; CPU-usage will stay
low. Now open TS-Charting; CPU usage will increase by 10% to 15%.
The limiting factor in charting is: Windows-Resources in Win9x (WinNT &
Win2000 don't have this problem); namely System%, User% and GDI%; if they
are too low (in my case under 10% the system will stop working.
Do yourself a favor and upgrade your RAM to at the minimum to 128MB better
196MB or 256MB and install a memory manager like WinRamBooster or
WinRamBooster Pro. Windows won't permanently swap to the disk (which is 100
to 1000 times slower than RAM). I never have to use the swapfile and
therefore a very fast system (with 3 large monitores, two dozen permanently
running utilities and only a Celeron 333MHz)
Nick
Date sent: Mon, 8 May 2000 21:01:15 +0200
From: "ted stampeen" <tedco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: computer technicals
> hi all,
> I was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to answer
> some questions .
> 1> I have noticed my CPU at 100% when I open TS.,,
> is this normal, running a 366 celeron, 64mbs.
>
> 2> how many charts can I have open collecting intra-day data
> without affecting the ticks
>
> 3> how many indicators can I apply per chart , without slowing anything
> down.
>
> if anyone could help in this I would be most grateful
>
> thanks and goodtrading / Ted
>
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