Advise me on computer memory

Bad_Badness said:
What does Task Manager say about how much TOS uses? And you adjusted your TOS memory setting right?
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Task Manager shows TOS ranging from 890,000 K to 918,000 K
Chrome uses about 350,000 K

I have adjusted TOS memory setting. My troubles only started after my first adjustment, increasing setting. I then lowered back to original. Today i lowered below that to next to lowest setting. Will see if that effects it.

I ran this computer with TOS without incident for 2 plus years. That time i ran 1 minute charts, afterwards switched to tick charts (not sure that effected it). Back to 1 minute charts before upgrading memory.
 
Moments ago computer pop up message saying I'm low on memory - close TOS. I then run task manager again and it then shows Chrome using as much as TOS, each using around 650,000 K
 
birdman said:
TOS = Think Or Swim
using Windows 7, no new installs in ages,
Intel i5 4460 CPU 3.20 Ghz
Hard disk = 826 GB free of 919 GB
Total Physical Memory 15.9 GB
Available Physical Memory 12.3 GB
Total Virtual Memory 63.7 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.76 GB
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Win 7 32 or 64 Bit ??

Cause if you've got 32bit that's your issue, no matter how much Ram you throw at it, you've only got 3.7GB's, I get that message at times on my 7-32bit setup, have to restart or it keeps annoying me, not on TOS just in general even closing MT4 at times.
 
Your page file could be corrupted. Reset it by doing the following:

1) set it to "No Paging File". Click OK and Reboot.
2) Go back to memory settings. Set it to System Managed. Click OK and Reboot.

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Also, check your Task Manager for an application running too many instances of itself. Browsers do it this normally and shouldn't be a concern.
 
birdman said:
Task Manager shows TOS ranging from 890,000 K to 918,000 K
Chrome uses about 350,000 K

I have adjusted TOS memory setting. My troubles only started after my first adjustment, increasing setting. I then lowered back to original. Today i lowered below that to next to lowest setting. Will see if that effects it.

I ran this computer with TOS without incident for 2 plus years. That time i ran 1 minute charts, afterwards switched to tick charts (not sure that effected it). Back to 1 minute charts before upgrading memory.
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Perhaps what changed was the version of TOS? Did you track your versions? Tick should be more intensive, all things being equal.
 
Big Thanks to all!

No knowledge of various TOS versions.

@ Xandman - i think you pointed me in the right direction. I maxed out Virtual Memory setting to nearly double what it was, with zero problems afterwards. It's a bit too early to be certain, but looks promising - none of the frequent alerts since.
 
I have the same computer specs as yours. Here is how I have TOS configured, it runs well but is more of a memory hog than the other platforms I trade from.

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To free up more memory for TOS: From TOS go to 'help' click on 'collect garbage'.

This will purge your TOS cache.


  1. Right click on the thinkorswim icon
  2. Left-click on PROPERTIES
  3. Left-click on OPEN FILE LOCATION
  4. In the resulting window, right-click on the USERGUI folder
  5. Left-click on DELETE
  6. Restart thinkorswim.
 
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