Problems Loading Markets

[Castillo]

Thanks. What you say backs up what I have found. It looks like there is a memory leak. I am pretty sure I know where the leak is now so I am going to plug it.

I'm glad that you were able to find a memory leak. Since Wed night I've closed and created quite a few tabs along with numerous market refreshes and this morning’s memory usage for BA is 1,156,500K

I think my problem is that I leave the same instance of BA open & running for over a week, so over time the memory usage is gradually increasing.

But by creating a massive page file as a temporary measure, at least I'm not getting the retry errors on refreshing markets anymore.

[Dai_Young]

FWIW I have found that going into Preferences > General and lowering the option 'Record up to X hours of chart history' to zero seems to reduce the memory load.

[mak]

Thanks. What you say backs up what I have found. It looks like there is a memory leak. I am pretty sure I know where the leak is now so I am going to plug it.

I'm glad that you were able to find a memory leak. Since Wed night I've closed and created quite a few tabs along with numerous market refreshes and this morning’s memory usage for BA is 1,156,500K

I think my problem is that I leave the same instance of BA open & running for over a week, so over time the memory usage is gradually increasing.

But by creating a massive page file as a temporary measure, at least I'm not getting the retry errors on refreshing markets anymore.

I think you are right about it...I had some troubles with memory also, and by "experiment" I noticed that it is better to restart my vps every morning...

Can you give me an example of what you have done with page file, please?

[Castillo]

FWIW I have found that going into Preferences > General and lowering the option 'Record up to X hours of chart history' to zero seems to reduce the memory load.

Thanks for the tip, but as I never use the ladder interface the setting for the chart history was already set to zero.

I think you are right about it...I had some troubles with memory also, and by "experiment" I noticed that it is better to restart my vps every morning...
Can you give me an example of what you have done with page file, please?

As I've previously mentioned I was getting Market Refresh problems because the system had got so low on Virtual Memory.
The PC is XP SP3 with 4GB of RAM, so I've reset the page file to a fixed size which seems to have cured the retry errors....

1.Start Button -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System -> Advanced tab.
2.Under the "Performance" section press "Settings" button -> Advanced tab
3.Under the "Virtual Memory" section press the "Change..." button.

I've now set the page file to a custom size (The Recommended size of the paging file is 1.5 to 3 times the amount of RAM you have) but also keeping the min and max limits the same so to avoid having the paging file constantly shrink and grow.

[mak]

Thanks Castillo
I will give a try