Multicore processor question

Quote from mgookin:



I go to msconfig and and deselect normal startup. I also go to Add/ Remove Programs --> Remove Windows Components and remove all the crap not associated with trading, and I still get 25 processes running.


Does anyone know where to get the utility that saves the core dedication past reboot? You'd think that since these are "computers" they would be able to accomplish the objective... Where's that guy with a brain that Gnome said was actually workign on software? We need him on this! :)
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Better than removing software , tweaking with some Services to be disabled could be a better way to reduce background Windows processes (google unecessary windows services).

Also about the affinity feature here is a link :http://www.orionsoftlab.com/tm/
feature: Setting the CPU Affinity Mask
Never used it.
 
Quote from Bernard111:

Better than removing software , tweaking with some Services to be disabled could be a better way to reduce background Windows processes (google unecessary windows services).

Also about the affinity feature here is a link :http://www.orionsoftlab.com/tm/
feature: Setting the CPU Affinity Mask
Never used it.
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I've heard there are some registry hacks and other tips and tricks, but I hesitate to do them. With regards to the services disabling, if I were confident I knew which did what, I would jump in there in a heartbeat and disable everything I don't use. But I don't have a bible on services and haven't taken the time to learn about it. Maybe one day.

Thanks to everyone for the great info. We now know how to dedicate tasks to cores!
 
Quote from Godzilla:

Don't knock it.. we got to the moon on 32kb of ram

Apollo 11 had 32kb of ram onboard it's mainframe computer
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Exactly ? And why didn't we ever get back to the moon given today's awesome technology ?
(Hint: "it's the people")
We had great engineers back then.
Not today....gone because of outsourcing.
 
Quote from mgookin:

Does anyone have fewer then 25 processes running at any given time?
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You bet: 23 processes using.....good old...WINDOWS 2000 !
It's about twice as efficient as Windows/XP.
Anyone running a trading platform on a non-tuned XP operating system is asking for trouble. Anyone running XP with a McAfee or Symantec internet security program resident is absolutely insane.
 
Quote from syswizard:

You bet: 23 processes using.....good old...WINDOWS 2000 !
It's about twice as efficient as Windows/XP.
Anyone running a trading platform on a non-tuned XP operating system is asking for trouble. Anyone running XP with a McAfee or Symantec internet security program resident is absolutely insane.
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Nod FTW!
 
Quote from syswizard:

You bet: 23 processes using.....good old...WINDOWS 2000 !
It's about twice as efficient as Windows/XP.
Anyone running a trading platform on a non-tuned XP operating system is asking for trouble. Anyone running XP with a McAfee or Symantec internet security program resident is absolutely insane.
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I would go further and say anyone running McAfee or Symantec on anything is asking for trouble. I have had both of their programs trash systems of mine. I refuse to have anything to do with either of them.
 
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Anyone running XP with a McAfee or Symantec internet security program resident is absolutely insane. [/B]
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Make it a positive-
What do you guys run for security ?


:)
 
Quote from new$:

Make it a positive-
What do you guys run for security ?

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None....while trading.
Why ?
Have you seen ANY of these products with a "Ignore streaming data" option ? No....so TCP/IP traffic keeps them very active....and hoses your CPU.
So here's an software niche that could be exploited:
a security product that understands trading platform's nuances.

On second thought, I wonder if there is a way to configure Norton Internet Security to ignore all traffic related to a particular executable.
Anyone try this ?
 
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