Symbol Limit Problem

[faisalkhan617]

When I run my application I am geting an error message from
Esignal saying that the password limits the number of symbols.

I was under the impression that the limit was 200 when the
symbols are accessed concurrently, and unlimited when accessed
sequentially.

My application makes a request for History and TimeSales data
for a symbol, and once obtained, releases the handles. It does
this for about 2000 symbols. It also clears the symbol cache,
after every 180 symbols. I was not expecting to run into this limit,
since I am releasing every symbol after getting it's data.

Another problem is that Esignal is also crashing when this
happens.

I would like to know why I am seeing this symbol limit error,
and an explanation for the crash.

Thanks.

[Guest]

The following bug has been reported:

Calling ReleaseSymbol from within OnQuoteChanged may cause eSignal to crash.

This will be corrected in the next release of eSignal (June 2004).


As far as your other issue - If you are requesting 180 symbols 12 times (~2000), then depending on the time interval between requests, I could see your server running into problems. The symbol limits are designed mainly for real-time quotes, but based on the caching, I can see how your application may be having problems. The best solution is to upgrade your account for more symbols.