High CPU usage fix!

[cpatte7372]

Fibgann,

Even when I run one chart in playback winsig.exe is totally saturating my cpu.

To be honest this is the one area where Esignal truly fail. In almost everything else Esignal is a winner. And for those of you who think that this is not important you wait until you have to trade - you'll pull your hair out.

I just don't understand why ESignals engineer won't take care of this.

Carlton

[fabrizio]

Originally posted by FibbGann
Fabrizio,

I don't have any problems messing with my BIOS, not sure what the problem is your refering too. This is actually a very common procedure for Dell PC's.

Cpatte,

What type of PC specs do you have? How many efs's are you running? How many windows?

Fibbgann

No i have no problem , never ever had since the first PC AT in sfo in 1981 . But honestly never touch myself the bios. And see top EDP manager having troubles messing it.

[FibbGann]

Cpatte,

I do not have this problem at all! I personally think your PC is under par for esignal applications due to experience. Running playback with 3 efs's could very well max out your CPU usage. Due to all the calculations it is trying to make. I also do not know what efs's you use, they could be heavily coded. The only problem I ever occur with esignal that I particularly do not like is the slow loading of charts. Some setting on your PC or depending on the OS you are running can also contribute to this too. My first suggestion would be to get a PC that is built to handle these trading applications.

Fibbgann

[Guest]

I suspect FibbGann is correct. I would encourage you to try the playback mode again and remove the efs's one at a time while watching your efs performance monitor and see if one of the efs's has a problem. As you are removing the efs's, if the performance issue sticks around, I would create two new advanced charts which duplicate the original without the efs's and see if there is still a performance issue.

There are other things you could do such as increase memory (although I think you have as much as the P3 can effectively use), reinstall windows on a new hard drive (in effect making a new machine). However, doing this may be throwing good money at an older system that could be better spent towards a new one.

Two other suggestions (btw - when running spell check, I had mispelled "sugestions", the spell checker said it had "No Suggestions" - pretty funny), try defragmenting your hard drive. With the 100% usage, I bet your hard drive is being used to data in and out of memory quite a bit so it could be significantly fragmented.

The last suggestion is to run a utility on the net, called PCPitstop.com. My old P3 had a score of 20, my dell 2.0 had a score of 160 (utility said I had very slow hard drives), the new 2.6 hyperthreading ones have scores over 1,000. The scores are relative and should be taken with a grain of salt, but it may point you in a direction short of a complete PC upgrade.

[cpatte7372]

OK,

I'll give it a go and see how I get on.

Thanks for helping out.

Carlton

[Bob A.]

High Cpu Usage fix

Carlton,

To set the record straight, I was redlining my 1.6 GHz, 1GB RAM CPU trying to run what eSignal now defines as a Power User load until early December. I then tested ( quite coincidentally ) a 2.6 GHz 1GB RAM system which is now defined as the Power User Requirement and it managed my load OK. So I bought a 3.0 GHz with 2GB RAM and it handles my load fine.

Regards,
Bob A.

[pj909]

Originally posted by FibbGann


... The only problem I ever occur with esignal that I particularly do not like is the slow loading of charts. ...

Fibbgann

I have this same complaint. Sometimes it even seems as though my system is locked up. Anyone else have similar results?

[JayF]

pj909,

This issue is not as wide-spread as the forums can sometimes make it seem. In speaking with many Technical Support Phone Reps, they actually receive only a handful of these reports. In response to the CPU issues we did receive, we revisited our System Requirements page, and included a new section for Power Users.

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[FibbGann]

JayF,
In reference to the chart loading PC spec sare not an issue here. It seems that half the time the charts just don't want to load. I have incurred this problem at 5 locations on 12 differents pcs. So, this must be an internal issue. What it is I have no idea?
As far as the high CPU usage, I well designed pc does resolve that problem, with no doubt.

Fibbgann

[pj909]

I am using a task monitoring utility from www.IARSN.com that measures CPU as well as a variety of other system components such as User/GDI Objects, RAM usage, File IO, TCP packets in and out, etc. CPU usage will peg 100% when loading an active issue such as QQQ with no additional lines, but a thinly traded stock (with lots of lines) will barely push the CPU beyond 50%. While obvious things like the number of active windows will dramatically affect CPU the problem still seems to be with bringing the data in. Does anyone have an explanation why an active issue would load more slowly?