Hi Woodshedder, are you the woodshedder from ibankcoin? I follow your blog :)
I had lots of crashing issues until I (or rather, Tomasz told me to) set the in-memorey cache size (max. symbols) to 11 and max. megabytes to around 850 (in preferences). While it means that AB will run generally slower because it will interact more to your hard disk, it will not run out of memory, which was my main issue with AB when I started working with large databases. I also suspect that the beta is crashing more for you because the new format of the DB contains two more fields and results in a larger DB. If you were on the verge before, you definately are over that limit now. cheers, eToke --- In [email protected], "woodshedder_blogspot" <woodshedder_blogs...@...> wrote: > > I'm running Vista-32, 3gb RAM, on a Dell inspiron 1525. I use Norgate > Premiumdata, US-history going back to 1985. > > I started with 5.20 but moved up through the betas as they were released, > until the latest Alpha. > > AB has always hanged (even before using the betas) or went non-responsive, > whenever I attempt to close the program, and sometimes when I open the > database to run the Norgate integration script. It has sometimes went > non-responsive when running simple optimizations (never complicated ones). > Typically this occurs as soon as the first step completes running. It almost > always has went non-responsive when switching between meta-stock format and > local database. > > When I downloaded the Alpha, everything got much worse. It started during the > installation process, when AmiBroker's auto back-up program crashed. Then, it > started crashing/hanging during almost every optimization. > > I have run Prime95, scandisk, and I defrag my disks regularly. I have never > had any problems with this computer, which only runs Tradestation, office > suite, and mozilla, besides AmiBroker. > > I have moved the original AmiBroker folder, and re-installed 5.20. I have > re-installed all of the Norgate/Premium data files. > > I am still getting crashes directly as the first optimization step finishes. > I have been trying to problem-solve this for a week now and am getting > nowhere. > > Do I sound desperate to get this running again? I feel that way. > > Thanks for any help. >
