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Mark,
I understand your reasoning completely. There are a couple of things
that lead me to believe the way I do. The easiest one is I added
memory and it made a huge difference. The second is based on working
with the manager of Omega's technical support for a very long time. I
got the best answers needless to say. First clue was to use
pagefiles to help TS2ki work better. Well if a program is using the
hard drive as temporary memory then why is it? This is a substitute
for RAM. Swap file as we used to call it. RAM is so much faster that
actually we would be better off if RAM was large enough to handle the
job. At one point I set my Pagefiles to something like 2,500 MB. I
was using DTN Sat. back then. Then I overloaded TS2ki so that in the
Global Server you could see the pagefiles growing. You can do this
several ways but simply adding tons of tick charts with indicators
will do it or optimize a system during a busy market. The data is put on
the drive when the RAM can't handle it all. The CPUs are still
cranking it out but at or near their limit. Data has to go somewhere.
Add to this that you have more than one thing going on in TS2ki at all
times. There are several programs actually running like ts32.exe,
Ortc.exe, server and ORQuote.exe. Data is being passes to the hard
drive and to charting and quotemonitor. Busy busy busy. Writing to
the hard drive gets behind so what happens. Quotemonitor and charting
will run behind and then zoom to catch up. Now TS2ki will manage what
gets behind then it stops and allows say Quotemonitor and charting to
catch up. Where we really get in trouble is when it doesn't manage
well and falls behind hopelessly. Then we get the crashes. Omega
has worked on this. Remember SP4c. I tested the new GS back then.
So we got a new Global server. It changed the priority for the way
something was scheduled to be processed.
Ok simple answer. At 256 MB ram I could no longer optimize a system
now with 512 I can. So why don't I get more RAM? Well mine is that
high dollar Registered... stuff so at over $200 per stick for 256mb
I'm not buying more than I need to get by. I could build a new
computer for the cost of the RAM and new RAM is cheap.
What do you think Mark??????
Best regards,
Jimmy Snowden
mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxx
Friday, October 10, 2003, 1:03:59 AM, you wrote:
MS> Jimmy - I agree with most of what you are saying....
MS> and especially the implication about the architecture of TS2000i:
MS> Although pretty sophisticated, a lot of the implementation was done
MS> poorly....
MS> event management for one thing.
MS> I totally disagree with you about memory requirements....adding more memory
MS> to
MS> a CPU-bound application is like trying to get your car to run faster by
MS> adding more gasoline....
MS> it just won't do anything.
MS> Because of architecture issues, TS2000i requires lots of horsepower, and
MS> even at the current
MS> 2.5+ gig processors, it can still max them out under certain conditions
MS> where tick charts are prevalent and update-every-tick is set on.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jimmy Snowden [mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 12:51 PM
>> To: Henry Amand; Omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re[2]: TS Slowdowns
>>
>>
>> Yes the problem is Tradestation and the company itself. The structure
>> of their program was not designed to do the work. The program is much
>> more an end of day program. You tack on real time and it isn't
>> designed from the ground up to do that efficiently. Even TS7 is just
>> a chop job on TS2ki. Whack off the GS and transmit the data from
>> Florida to charting on your machine. Actually TS4 worked pretty good
>> real time. TS2ki is a big departure from TS4. They added the ability
>> to receive data via internet and changed the whole program around to
>> be more suitable for internet delivery. It works but just barely.
>>
>> If you are really serious about running TS2ki you need to build and
>> tweak your machine and OS to handle it. Put all your programs on your
>> old machine and TS2ki on a new dual processor machine with super fast
>> everything and huge memory or at least a really well designed single
>> processor machine. I have built a few computers but for Tradestation
>> I would buy a Dell business machine. Call them on the phone because
>> what you want has to be designed so everything works together really
>> well. If you are Mark Brown then you can build your own. I'm not
>> willing to learn all that Mark knows. I might not be able to either.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jimmy Snowden
>> mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> Monday, October 8, 2007, 10:55:05 AM, you wrote:
>>
>> HA> Jimmy Snowden wrote:
>>
>> >> If I can keep up with a dual 850 with 512 meg RAM running
>> >> esignal and at least five other programs along with Tradestation then
>> >> you guys should be able to do it with your multi GIG processor and
>> >> fast bus speed machines I think.
>>
>> HA> So the problem is not realy TradeStation :-)
>>
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