Re: TS4 and Dual Processors or Hyper-Threading

["Robert Scott" <rlscott1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Romi,

Well, it is said that "a picture is worth a thousand words" and I guess I
should have used a few more words in explanation.  The snapshot was taken at
3:26pm Eastern Standard Time which is while the market was open as opposed
to closed but not "at" market open.  Over the first 30 minutes after market
open the average quote rate was 850 quotes/second and later dropped to 600
quotes/second.

Thanks for keeping me honest and I hope that clears up your questions.

~Bob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Romi Ghose" <r.ghose@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Robert Scott" <rlscott1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Omega-List"
<omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: TS4 and Dual Processors or Hyper-Threading


> >>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
> >
>
>