disciple33 Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 Occasionally MT uses a lot of CPU on my computer. It comes and goes - I haven't figured out what brings it on or when it leaves. It is not related to busy times in the market. Currently (10:15 AM PST on a Tuesday), Medved Trader is using about 85% of my laptop's CPU. Normally it uses about 10 or 15% or so. I don't know where to find the version I'm running currently, but it is the latest one I was prompted to download (a day or two ago, I believe). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 not aware of any CPU issues in the current version. Can please email me the log and settings... go to FILE / Export Settings. Leave the checkboxes already checked, and also check LOG FILE. Export, then email me the exported file please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vrtrader64 Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 I previously ran into performance problems when the AntiVirus I was using interacted with MT. Now I run an AV program that allows exclusion of those programs/directories used by MT and performance has been smooth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Medved Posted April 22, 2015 Report Share Posted April 22, 2015 MT does write to disk quite a bit. It uses memory-mapped files, so changes it makes (as data comes in) get flushed to disk. Antivirus programs monitor disk writes and will slow things down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disciple33 Posted April 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2015 I tried adding MT as an exception in Avast, and it didn't make a difference. I also shut my antivirus off for a few minutes, and it didn't help. I minimized all MT windows, and that brought the CPU load from MT quickly down from about 80% to less than 5%. Unfortunately, restoring the windows caused the CPU load to move back up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted April 27, 2015 Report Share Posted April 27, 2015 can you please export the settings and email them to us (refer to the first reply) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stock777 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Saw this post and tried that minimize thing. Indeed, reduces cpu usage sharply, from the 50% average range to 15% or less! I have a pretty fast video card, so don't know what MT is doing to hog so much cpu. I'm using mini charts, so I assume they are the culprit, but you'd know better. Isn't there something that can be done about this high CPU? I run other apps (tws and TOS) and it bogs down the machine. Less frequent updating of mini chart poss? Say every few seconds instead of constantly, user can select delay? PS also back to using a full 2 gig of ram, seems a lot . 30 day setting on data store. 1 day consolidation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stock777 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 did notice something odd. with Firefox closed your cpu usage is much lower. not sure the reason here. edit: now up to 2.3 Gig of ram. Really? lets say I have 150 symbols, I have less. thats 15 meg per symbol. with only todays action as tick data. I know theres other overhead, so call it 10 meg. I don't get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 don't know about Firefox. We certainly don't do anything special for it. when minimized, the charts do not update, so they don't use CPU. Same with portfolios. So if you have some portfolios updating simply so you can get alerts, I would minimize those. We do have internal throttling of chart and inline chart updating. Will add some user control for that in upcoming versions As for memory - which setting exactly are you looking at? If regular Windows Task Manager on Windows 7, are you looking at Working Set (Memory) Memory (Private Working Set) something else? A lot of those values are not quite what they seem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stock777 Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Looking at both memory readings. Right now, they are at 2 gig 1.8 gig and commit set to 1.9 gig. Thinkorswim for example, a java app, using only 1 gig , and I have quite few windows open . Of course they don't cache all the data, I get that. If I was running only MT, cpu usage would probably not be an issue, but the spiking to 50% every few seconds , even on a quad core, does seem to cause performance issues. Not sure how much control you have of this , in whatever dev platform you're using. Normally I wouldn't care, but I'm noticing other apps lagging because MT is taking up so much cpu. For example , moving the cursor in TWS (IB) gets slow. As for firefox, I don't think theres a direct connection , but it looked like MT ran better when FF was closed. Who knows. I created a new clean profile in FF just in case there was something in there causing some system slowness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted October 4, 2015 Report Share Posted October 4, 2015 the next build should have better performance on charts, plus user control for chart performance settings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stock777 Posted October 5, 2015 Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 Looking much better today. good job on this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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