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> Be aware that if you leave the portfolio box open in TS4, you will lose a
> lot of ticks
interesting; so use e.g. "Print Setup".
I leave "Symbol Portfolio" open and comparing my tick counts
(quote.com by internet in Germany) with BMI satellite users in the US, I
have the same or higher tick counts for SP and ES than they. That's
enough for me. I used to open "Print Setup" before and cannot remember
to have seen a degradation in tick counts.
Omega Server hogs the CPU-usage and needs in my case only about
1%. TS-Charting uses in my case about 10% ( a dozen tick charts).
Using WinNT and TS2k the Global Server does not (in my case) hog
the CPU-usage.
Nick
Date sent: Wed, 10 May 2000 09:38:07 -0400
From: "Patrick White" <simgenie@xxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: computer technicals
> 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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