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To: Nick Morvay who wrote (22987)	10/22/2001 9:42:12 PM
From: Dan Duchardt	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110652

Nick, Thanks for the input. I've been starting to think along the same lines, especially after the problem I posted recently where a program could not run with the full RAM installed even though Windows memory was limited to 384M. Besides that, I'm not convinced I've reduced the processor load all that much by eliminating the swapping. Today was not a good test because QCharts was out to lunch all day. I did have a stable system with 512M in the box and Windows limited to 384M. It grabbed about 60M for cache initially, and is now up to about 95M after a day of use. I will limit that to 32M before my next start and see what happens. I never did see a swapfile appear, but the few times QCharts (actually RavenQuote) was working the processor use meter still went to 100%. I need to see it when QCharts is actually running, but I expected to see more of a load reduction than I think I am getting. Any preference for XP vs Win2K?? Am I likely to see a performance improvement with this processor and memory if I upgrade the operating system? Would a new processor on my ABIT BH6 motherboard make any sense, or is the clock rate on that board going to do me in anyway? Wish I knew more about this stuff, but as you say.. I really want to focus on my trading. Dan

To: Nick Morvay who wrote (22987)	10/23/2001 9:38:03 PM
From: bosquedog	Respond to of 110652

I finally bit the bullet and went to a dually Maybe something fun to try. Found this following Kaycee's link to Mike Lin programs. mlin.net SMP Seesaw is a small utility for dual-CPU workstations that allows the user to finely tune how Windows balances the processing load between the two CPUs. By default, Windows tries to balance the processing load as evenly as possible: when one process is running on CPU 0 and another process needs to execute, Windows runs it on CPU 1. This greatly improves multitasking performance under Windows NT and even moreso under Windows 2000. However, it is sometimes useful to dedicate an entire CPU to only one or two processes to get maximum performance from them - single-threaded games, software-based DVD playback and VMware (www.vmware.com) are good examples. The Windows 2000 task manager allows the user to set "process affinities" that force a process to execute on one processor only. However, there is no practical means to isolate one or two processes to a CPU and keep other programs on the other processor. SMP Seesaw provides a means to do this. Note: SMP Seesaw is entirely useless if you don't have a dual processor system or don't use Windows NT 4.0 / 2000. Currently it does not support quad or even more insane systems.