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Wednesday, 12/05/2007 11:05:10 AM

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:05:10 AM

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UPDATE of problems

Upon just recently changing trading platform (forced to) I have come across few hurdles.
This made me fight many things. This also made me realize more stuff happening.

Conclusion :
1) stockcharts WAS guilty of my charts not showing ! (unchanged conclusion)
(when stockcharts gave me problems I still had my old platform)
They did cut my data channel in 1-2 sec, which seems to be fixed now.
They are also guilty of ignoring and not responding to my e-mails toward "support". Worst customer service in the world you can find.

2) SC page looking weird (except for chart itself) has high odds of being caused also by interference of too big flood of data coming at once thus creating a bottleneck in pc thus wrong appearance between other things.
During troubleshooting the platform I did 2 things that either one had a marked effect on SC. a) in task manager I gave my platform a sub-normal priority (just ignore the windows warning blah blah popping up). This placed the flood of data behind any other in line, thus when I refreshed a page of SC I noticed a marked increase in both quality and speed. b) I came across what is the main cause of the flood of data and how to stop it. This also had a marked effect on SC page but less than prior point.
The main flood effect comes from window java with many many streaming symbols (20-30, especially if active). So I made some tabs (windows) with less symbols, and even one blank where I "park" it after checking around.
I still do not know if the flood of data affects/strains the memory/cache or the CPU capacity. Maybe someone knows this better as I'd like to fix this if I may. The CPU at 3 gig with just the static MS wordprocessor and static SC charts and streaming platform looks strained under flood, while MEM at 1.3gig looks available.

I gave back the platform normal priority as I think I need to be it like that, but I took away the flood as explained above.


I hope this may help others with their issues.




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