Make sure that you are not using any data plugin, ie local database. Any realtime plugins is a real drag on performance. change the DB to local before testing.
--- In [email protected], "davemabe2000" <davem...@...> wrote: > > When I create a database and insert 1.5 years of 5 minute bar data, the > optimization I run takes around 2.5 hours. > > When I add more data to the database to end up with 8 years of 5 minute bar > data, the same optimization takes 4 days+ (exponentially worse). > > Even when I restrict the date range to a 1.5 year period in the larger > database, a single backtest is noticeably longer than the same backtest with > just the 1.5 years in the database. > > Is there anything that I can do to improve the performance of the > optimization over the larger period? > > My plan now is to create a database for each 2 year period and run the > optimizations on each individually. > > Any other ideas? Any tricks for getting more performance on a large data set? >
