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Not getting defensive....but my pc is 2-3 years old
with a pentium 700 and 640 mbs ram. Just want to make sure its the pc. And I run
win 98. Just want to be sure thats the real issue first.
SMC
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Ray
Raffurty
To: <A title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
href="mailto:realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:57
PM
Subject: Re: [RT] Benchmarking Hard
drive
I doughty he has a 1 Meg. card based on the age
of his computer and the fact he has not upgraded anything else.
Actually, earlier I suggested he needs an entire
new computer, but he has rejected that. At more than 5 years old his
Pentium-1, with a slow hard drive, dial-up internet and probably less than 1
Meg graphic card running Windows 95 is way outdated for what he
wants to do.
He should update the hard drive, graphic card,
mother board, CPU, memory, operating system, and internet
connection. Perhaps the case, fan, power supply, and modem (as a
back-up) could be salvaged, but with excellent computers in the $400.00 range,
why bother?
Good luck and good trading,
Ray Raffurty
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<A title=tradewynne@xxxxxxxxx
href="mailto:tradewynne@xxxxxxxxx";>tradewynne
To: <A
title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
href="mailto:realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:31
PM
Subject: Re: [RT] Benchmarking Hard
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--- In <A
href="mailto:realtraders@x";>realtraders@x..., "Ray Raffurty" <<A
href="mailto:r.raffurty@x";>r.raffurty@x...> wrote:> I doughty
your hard drive is at fault. What is your graphic card?I
"doughty" it's your graphics card. I've run TS off 2MB cards. If your
system is redrawing your WHOLE screen every tick you need to fix that
first. This is a fixable and well known TS2K issue. I think DB at
Dynastore posted a fix several years back.Drawing a chart is
actually NOT an intense graphics applicationcompared to video or gaming
or whatever. Think about it: if you are re-drawing the latest bar a few
times a second (and maybe your indicators if they are set to update
every tick), how does that compare to an actual video? Anyway,
I'm not saying it's fer sure the HD, but fer sure your HD is slow and
you are accessing it every "tick" using your virtual memeory.BTW,
did you Benchmark your "write speed?" As lots of new data comes in, like
on the open, TS "writes" it to your HD. If your HD gets behind the delay
will snowball and get worse over time. If your entire system is using
virtual memory (your's is), that'll add to the problem. The read speed
would apply to opening up new charts.I'm no computer expert :-), but
I've been my own TS trouble shooter for 12 years. I can tell you your
HD, and the condition of the files on it, can and do effect TS
performance.FWIW, if you only have one HD in your machine you should
get a second one anyway and use your old one as a
backup....BW>Is it built into the mother board?
That is far more likely to be the problem. Intense graphic
applications, like redrawing a screen every tic, require a state of the
art graphic card. Graphic chip sets built into the mother board
are cheep and suck processing power. Likewise an underpowered
graphic card will do the same.> > No offence, but if you
valued your time at $30.00 you have spent enough time trying to fix this
computer to afford a major upgrade. The road to success in trading
is littered with people who tried to get by on the cheap, cheep (or old)
computer + cheep internet connection = disaster. Frankly if you
cannot afford to upgrade your equipment and service, you can not afford
to trade. I and most people here have learned this, sometimes the
hard way. Trading is a business, if you don't have enough capital
for decent equipment, you don't have enough capital to properly fund a
trading account to withstand the inevitable draw downs. Please do
yourself a favor: Prepare a business plan, including funds for
equipment, services, office and living expenses, etc. before you begin
trading. Take the time to set your self up as a business and you
will reduce the risk of failure.> > Good luck and good
trading,> > Ray Raffurty> ----- Original
Message ----- > From: Sean Cassidy >
To: realtraders@xxxx > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002
12:16 PM> Subject: [RT] Benchmarking Hard drive>
> > Sorry to take so much time with this.....but
hopefully its helping some others as well. I benchmarked my hard drive
with that program and took several readings. Most were between 4300 and
5200 kbps when the defaults were used. I cant find any info about
whether or not this is good. I have a 3 year old, 9.5 gb hard drive with
about 4 gbs left. Is this as expected?> >
SMC> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tradewynne
> To: realtraders@xxxx
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:07
AM> Subject: Re: [RT] Offtopic Still slow
data> > > --- In
realtraders@xxxx, "Sean Cassidy" <scassidy@xxxx>
wrote:> > If I ran TS with no indicators
etc......I wouldnt need it. At this >
point, my PC seems fine, was just hoping someone could tell me if my
> limited bandwith could cause my data to
slow during the day. It ran > fine until
930 this morning, then immediately clogged up after the
> open. >
> Then it doesn't sound "fine" to me. Do you
have win2k+ installed on a > clean fast
HD? Have you cleaned your registry? Freebie
RegCleaner> (works fine, but use with
care, backup your registry):> > <A
href="http://www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/regcleaner.shtml";>http://www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/regcleaner.shtml>
> You said the same indicator works fine on
your friend's 'puter....> maybe your
computer isn't "fine."> > > <A
href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/realtraders/message/19918";>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/realtraders/message/19918>
> > Ok i think I found the problem.....I
only have 14% of resources > free, so how
do I fix?> > "Make sure you aren't
starting programs you don't need and then >
reboot.> > or>
> Clean install of Win2K.>
> How about your HD? Is it old, slow, and/or
full? A freebie called > MPower can
benchmark your HD. A slow or corrupted HD will cause your
> data to back up when your 'puter tries to
write it to the HD.> > FWIW, I have an
old AMD 900, 400 symbols/ 30 charts+, QCharts,
> Dynastore, TS4, and NO delay.>
> BW"> > >
> I just bought some great software that
really helps with > trends....but i cant use
in intraday.> >
> > SMC>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ernie Bonugli
> > To: Sean Cassidy
> > Sent: Thursday, December
05, 2002 8:51 AM> > Subject:
Re: [RT] Offtopic Still slow data> >
> > >
> Sean,> >
> > I have not been keeping up
with this thread, but, if you are>
> using tradestation, have you tried running TS with only
one> > simple workspace that
has a single chart and no indicators?>
> It could be that you have overwhelmed
TS.> > >
> > >
Regards,> >
Ernie> >
ebonugli@xxxx> >
> > > >
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