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Sean Cassidy
To: <A title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
href="mailto:realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 2:02
PM
Subject: Re: [RT] Benchmarking Hard
drive
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,
Aha!! Win98! I think there lies
the problem. Win98 is lousy at managing memory. It doesn't
recognize memory that has been released. As you may have guessed, I
have Win98 and I have been down the same path. I bought a
program on the internet that has helped with this, It is called MemTurboII.
You can try it for free for a month. If you like it, I think it cost about
$20.
Here is their website. <A
href="http://www.memturbo.com/";>http://www.memturbo.com/
Another way to speed up your computer, is to clean your cache of all temporary
internet files. To do this, go to your browser, click on tools, internet
options, delete files and include off line files too. Last week, I
eliminated about 1 gig of this junk from my computer just from eliminated
the temp internet files.
Let us know how it goes.
Regards,
Norman
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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less than 1 Meg graphic card running Windows 95 is way outdated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
drive
--- 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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