Dan, it would seem to me that your time (equaling money) would be better spent trading instead of spinning your wheels on the system. I went through a similar experience and found that my trading was impacted by system problems. With that in mind, would it not be better to do some basic things that you will eventually going to have to bite the bullet on?
For example, consider moving to Win2K or XP to clearup all the memory issues. No configuring problems with 3rd party memory managers, ramdisk issues, extra overhead, program compatability etc. This will also provide you with a much more "robust" system because each program will run in its own memory space, therefore, if one program should crash it will not take down or corrupt data of any other program running.
The P2 350 is probably close to maxing out as it sounds like you have a lot of programs and data feeds running continuosly. My prior trading system, a PPro200 (overclocked to 240) had similar problems. The amount of money and time it required to increase performance another 20% (which is all it could attain), in the end the band-aid was not worth it. I finally bit the bullet and went to a dually.
Something to think about.
Regards,
Nick |
