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I believe Microsoft's web site says that Win98 has the 512 meg limit and
Win2k doesn't have such a limit.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Kaucher [mailto:steinbr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 4:12 PM
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: TS4 I/O buffer buildup
Just a follow up to the excellent comments made below. I have been told by
a fairly active custom system builder that W2K can only effectively handle
memory up to 512 Meg. If you load memory over that amount you should error
correcting memory but still expect a performance hit.
I doubt this is your sole problem. TS2000 is the problem :>)
>Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 18:26:53 -0800 (PST)
>From: Jim Osborn <jimo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: TS4 I/O buffer buildup
>Message-Id: <200111080226.SAA27113@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>"Jim Erven" <ervenj@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>>So what are we saying here, a higher speed serail post with more
>>buffer might help, definitely solve this, or try it and see (lol)?
>>
>>Kinda frustrating sorting this all out, thot the P3-850 CPU wud do the
>>trick. I am only collecting the e-mini, naz mini, and 12 indexes, no
stocks.
>>But guess the serial port still has to read the whole data stream to
strip
>>out my symbols, then chart them with all the studies.
>
>Yep, it doesn't matter that you're only collecting a few symbols;
>the BMI box throws the entire feed at your computer, and the TS
>server has to sift out what you're interested in. A buffer card
>of some sort has always been considered mandatory with BMI, My
>trusty old 486 did fine with the classic TPort (r.i.p) under Win3.1.
>Win32, of course, is another matter, much slower "os."
>
>The current favorite seems to be the Turbo960, I believe.
>You need space to hold the output of the hose, until TS can
>consume it. It may not solve your problem, but you probably
>won't solve your problem without it. Even with a fancy CPU,
>you don't want it just servicing an I/O stream.
>
>Also, make sure your BMI box isn't permissioned for things
>you don't want. I used to often find they'd turned on this
>or that free service. At least you can filter out that portion
>of the feed at the box.
>
>Jim
Charles Kaucher
One who is confused in purpose cannot respond to his enemy.
-- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
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