TOS extremly memory hungry and slow after recent update

Discussion in 'Retail Brokers' started by Data09, Mar 7, 2017.

  1. SkyChef

    SkyChef

    TOS is very bloated & sluggish. It also got bugged, crashing system reported then quietly fixed. I have spent considerable time to improve my system, running into bugs and what's not so I don't see any way to get around it besides helping yourself & your system to a tolerable point or move to a different platform. Things that you can do

    1) Have 8GB memory and set TOS memory 2GB-6GB.
    2) Have an Intel CPU instead of AMD CPU system. I have talked to the developer and he said it shouldn't be the issue but I have 2 identical TOS Chart setup, one w/ Intel i7 2.6GHz 8GB, GTX-970M consistently below 15% CPU usage and one w/ AMD Phenom 6x at 3.5GHz, 8GB, GTX-970, consistently in the range of 33-39% CPU usage. Each of them have one main window and 2 detached windows. Each window has 3 charts. The AMD is 2-3 time worse than the Intel setup.
    3) Minimum indicators if you use it. My setup above use simple indicators I wrote to display ranges, high-low swing points w/ minimum resource usage. Try to eliminate charts & indicators then look at CPU usage to see which one causing the most problem then try to live w/o it.
    4) Blank all default windows in TOS if you don't use it.

    Good luck to you.
     
    #11     Mar 7, 2017
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  2. I reported it yesterday. They are aware. Seems better today, so maybe its fixed
     
    #12     Mar 7, 2017
  3. I thought this was a normal problem? If I have 5-6 windows open it typically moves like a turtle.

    It's probably the best software available for the price, but they need to figure out the memory issues.
     
    #13     Mar 7, 2017
  4. I hated TOS because it was so slow loading. The new Tastyworks platform is lightning fast. I'm glad I switched.
     
    #14     Mar 7, 2017
  5. fact is, tos is not particularly slow once its up and running.

    and its sharing the box with two other platforms at the same time.

    on a 6 year old computer with 8 gig of ram

    maybe im just lucky ;0
     
    #15     Mar 7, 2017
  6. Spoke too soon on the latest bugs they introduced. Still leaks like a bastard as day wears on.

    You'd think they would back out a botched update like this instead of making users suffer for a week.

    Too easy.
     
    #16     Mar 7, 2017
  7. Pekelo

    Pekelo

    I hate the slow loading too, but there is a trick against it. Just never turn off the platform. Now against the memory usage, just use an older computer with less memory... :)
     
    #17     Mar 7, 2017
  8. Data09

    Data09

    Latest answer from TOS:

    'so I recommend that you go back to 2gb on the high end as we never want to allocate more than 1/4th of your total. I also recommend that we restart TOS every 2 hours. We should have some fixes for this as the problem is coming from our side of things. No estimation on this however'

    No ETA. Ouch.
     
    #18     Mar 7, 2017
  9. Sad. No excuse for not being able to roll back to pre farked status.
     
    #19     Mar 8, 2017
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  10. Data09

    Data09

    Yes, crazy. Why they not roll back till they are able to fix the issue. We are the beta-tester.

    I guess till the weekend will nothing happen, if at all. No ETA means, they have no clue how to fix it.
     
    #20     Mar 8, 2017