cpu usage w/multiple monitors

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alanack

I've been trying to figure out a problem with excessive cpu usage with my P4, with 2 monitors. I'd like to ask all similar users a question... How much cpu usage do you typically see(30%, 50%, etc.) when bringing up 6, 8 or more charts on two or three monitors? Is response time slowed noticeably when accessing the internet when these charts are up? Thanks.

Alan
 
I have a 4 mon setup with a amd athlon 1.8 with 512 mb

With charts running i have about 4% cpu usage.

Happy trading,
Sittas
 
To give you a radical comparison, I just loaded a workspace on an older Pentium II 400 MHz machine with dual monitors - with nine charts (each with scrolling T&S and multiple technical studies), four action maps, eight market scanners, two trend channel scanners, and three Gann Frame scanners it's only running at about 20-25% CPU.

On the P4 it's only 3-5%.

What operating system are you using? How much RAM do you have? What software are you using?
 
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To give you a radical comparison, I just loaded a workspace on an older Pentium II 400 MHz machine with dual monitors - with nine charts (each with scrolling T&S and multiple technical studies), four action maps, eight market scanners, two trend channel scanners, and a three Gann Frame scanners it's only running at about 20% CPU.

On the P4 it's only 3-5%.

What operating system are you using? How much RAM do you have? What software are you using?
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Quote from ArchAngel:

To give you a radical comparison, I just loaded a workspace on an older Pentium II 400 MHz machine with dual monitors - with nine charts (each with scrolling T&S and multiple technical studies), four action maps, eight market scanners, two trend channel scanners, and a three Gann Frame scanners it's only running at about 20% CPU.

On the P4 it's only 3-5%.

What operating system are you using? How much RAM do you have? What software are you using?
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I am using XP home, 896 Mb ram. Software providers are MBTrading for trades, DTNIQ for quotes.
 
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I've been trying to figure out a problem with excessive cpu usage with my P4, with 2 monitors. I'd like to ask all similar users a question... How much cpu usage do you typically see(30%, 50%, etc.) when bringing up 6, 8 or more charts on two or three monitors? Is response time slowed noticeably when accessing the internet when these charts are up? Thanks.

Alan
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Your excess CPU usage is probably due to an application. Hardware won't chew up your CPU unless perhaps you have incompatible chipset/video. :D
 
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Your excess CPU usage is probably due to an application. :D
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Could you be more specific? I've used different versions of MBTrading's software, also different versions of DTNiq's software. I have been told sometimes something will be running in the background that is hard to locate. But I've done a complete system restore, tons of other thing to try to locate this problem, and it seems pretty consistent no matter what. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Alan
 
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Could you be more specific? I've used different versions of MBTrading's software, also different versions of DTNiq's software. I have been told sometimes something will be running in the background that is hard to locate. But I've done a complete system restore, tons of other thing to try to locate this problem, and it seems pretty consistent no matter what. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Alan
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Do a minimal load-up. Then add one application at a time and keep checking Task Manager to see which one is gobbling up your CPU... the culprit should be obvious. (Couple of years back I loaded up a cool emini app. Problem was that it ran only about 40 minutes before overloading my W98 resources and I had to reboot. Needless to say, couldn't run it for trading.)
 
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