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If someone has not already mentioned it, there is a "freeware" utility from
Systernals that I just found that will show CPU usage and will run on W9x
systems. It looks great and the price is right. If you are running a W9x
Operating System, please download this and check your total CPU loading plus
load from each running process. It takes a few seconds to start (30 seconds
on my PC booted from W98se) but once it is running, it looks great! The
following is the link to the program:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml
~Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Scott" <rlscott1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Omega-List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 10:37 AM
Subject: Off Topic - TradeStation Crashing
> I recently released a "process killer" which was aimed at making it easier
> for users to close PC processes that were left running due to a
TradeStation
> "crash". Although I released this program due to complaints from a TS8
> user, the program can be used to shut down many PC processes with a single
> mouse click. I've gotten responses from a number of TS8 users and some
are
> seeing TS8 "crashes" and some not. What I strongly suspect is that the
> "crashing" PC's are being overloaded to the point that TS8 finally
> "crashes". I have seen this problem on other PC's running real time data
> feeds and overloading seems to be the root of problem. A CPU can be run
at
> 100% for a few seconds but if data is continually coming in, the CPU will
> continue to get further and further behind and finally "crash". If you
are
> experiencing frequent "crashes" then you need take a look at CPU Usage.
In
> order to see CPU Usage, you can use Windows Task Manager for Windows NT,
W2k
> & XP but for the W9x Operating Systems you will need to invest $35 to get
> the latest TaskInfo version http://www.iarsn.com . IMO, and I will surely
> get blasted for this, anyone running real time processes like TradeStation
> should be running a dual CPU PC which requires Windows NT, W2k or XP for
> dual CPU control. This does not have to cost a lot of money. As I'm
> writing this in "Lookout Express", I'm also running TradeStation 4.0 which
> sucks up 100% of one CPU plus running two instances of QCharts and a
number
> of other programs. The attached CPU Usage GIF shows a total usage of 58%
> and TS4 is responsible for 50% of that number (note the righthand CPU is
> running "full tilt"). The PC I am using is 4 years old running two 1GHz
> Xeon PIII CPUs (133 MHz FSB) on Windows XP Pro and I paid $500 for it used
> when it was a couple of years old. By today's standards, this is a slow
PC
> but I'm running over 40% CPU Idle so all is fine. What percentage CPU
Idle
> time are you running?
>
> The message here is that if you are experiencing program "crashes", it may
> not be strictly the fault of the program.
>
> Good Trading!
>
> ~Bob
>
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