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>>I have
> attached a GIF showing a TaskInfo2003 view of a dual 1GHz PIII PC running
> TS4/Dynastore during market open. <<
Hi Robert,
Thanks for sharing this info. However curious what the date and time (2/06
3:26 pm) refers to (in the last but two lines in your attached snapshot),
if you were measuring at market open.
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Scott <rlscott1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Omega-List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 11:04 AM
Subject: TS4 and Dual Processors or Hyper-Threading
> Due to the continuous poll of the serial port in TS4 the program will
> utilize 100% CPU and become sluggish to other applications. For this
> reason, I have always run the 16 bit TS4 program on a dual CPU PC which
> leaves one CPU free to do other applications. Recently I was talking to a
> friend who is running TS4/Dynastore on a fast dual CPU PC and he told me
> that his CPU usage was 98%. I thought that was high and asked him to set
> the TS4 NTVDM CPU Affinity to CPU 1. After setting the CPU Affinity to
CPU
> 1 the CPU usage went down to 50% when measured in post market. I have
> attached a GIF showing a TaskInfo2003 view of a dual 1GHz PIII PC running
> TS4/Dynastore during market open. The portfolio contained 500 of the
> highest trading equities and at the time the snapshot was taken quotes
were
> being processed at the rate of about 600 quotes/second.- price, volume,
best
> ask and best bid. Note that the PC is running all this with 39% Idle
which
> makes the PC quite useful for many other applications.
>
> If anyone is running TS4 on a late model *single* processor that supports
> Hyper-Threading I would like to know if TS4 be restricted to one CPU in
the
> same manner as a dual processor setup. This would be a definite advantage
> if this could be done.
>
> If anyone is interested, I have written a utility that will automatically
> set the CPU Affinity for dual CPU systems.
>
> ~Bob
>
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