Yes, as I hope I had communicated in messages via support, I was very very thankful for your assistance, especially as part of it came over the weekend.
I accept your apology, and am sorry too that we've had this (electronically induced) misunderstanding. Now, back to backtesting. --- In [email protected], "Tomasz Janeczko" <gro...@...> wrote: > > Sorry, but I did not know that you have posted in 9 days ago. FYI: I am _NOT_ > doing group moderation. > The post date was of today (August 30), so I thought it was posted today. > And as such it looked to me like unjustified because the issue was resolved. > > If you posted it 9 days ago, I appologize for my reaction. > > And yes, I glad you mentioned that I assisted you through all the problem, on > the Saturday and Sunday night > (I was personally helping you starting from 6pm Saturday till 1am Sunday > night my local time and then Sunday > starting from 11 AM till midnight same day, even though support for weekends > is closed), and the "simple sofware setting" > was something that you did change on your own manually *after* setup / > reinstall because 1000 is > NOT the default setting for "max open positions. The default that is set > after first-time install is 4. > Yet you did not mention that you changed any settings after fresh > installations. > As I wrote you I can not see your computer, and you must describe everything > you do in order to speed up the resolution of > the issue. Without knowledge of cruicial changes to settings it takes way > more time to do guessing work > of what user did. > > Best regards, > Tomasz Janeczko > amibroker.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "woodshedder_blogspot" <woodshedder_blogs...@...> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 11:54 PM > Subject: [amibroker] Re: Please Help, AmiBroker Crashing > > > > Tomasz, I sent this message to the User's List over 9 days ago. When I sent > > it, the problem had not been resolved, and I was > > getting desperate to figure things out. I have no idea why the message > > posted well over a week after I sent it. As you recall > > Tomasz, I sent you two messages via support where I specifically asked you > > if you were going to post my message to the User Group, > > as it hadn't shown up a day or more after it was posted. You did not reply > > to my messages, but I can certainly forward them to you > > (and to the user group here) again to remind you that I inquired why my > > post wasn't available on the user's group. I erroneously > > assumed you chose not to post my messages to the User Group since the > > problem was resolved by support a day or two after I posted > > to the group. > > > > I am upset that you would state that I've resorted to "unjustified bashing" > > of AmiBroker. Truth be told, I publish a blog which > > receives over 30K hits a month, and I often sing the praises of AmiBroker. > > I have never mentioned your service or software as > > being anything other than the best. Perhaps I should alter that practice. > > > > Perhaps, instead of speaking highly of your software, I should mention that > > it took me practically begging you to help me before > > you got involved in a meaningful way to resolve my problem. Perhaps I > > should mention that on your advice, I reformatted my entire > > hard drive, and re-installed Windows, as you thought that Windows was the > > problem, only to find out afterwards that the problem > > was a simple software setting. > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@> wrote: > >> > >> It was NOT any problem with AMiBroker just > >> ridicolously high "max. open positions" setting set to 1000. > >> > >> With 26 years of EOD data and 10000 symbols that means > >> 10GB of RAM! > >> > >> And of course he ran out of memory. > >> Once "max open positions" is reduced to some value > >> that actually makes sense (100 or less), there are no problems. > >> > >> The most annoying fact is that this issue was resolved > >> via support channel weeks ago, yet AmiBroker is target of some unjustified > >> bashing again. > >> > >> Best regards, > >> Tomasz Janeczko > >> amibroker.com > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "etoketrader" <etoke@> > >> To: <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 6:28 PM > >> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Please Help, AmiBroker Crashing > >> > >> > >> > 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_blogspot@> 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. > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > ------------------------------------ > >> > > >> > **** IMPORTANT PLEASE READ **** > >> > This group is for the discussion between users only. > >> > This is *NOT* technical support channel. > >> > > >> > TO GET TECHNICAL SUPPORT send an e-mail directly to > >> > SUPPORT {at} amibroker.com > >> > > >> > TO SUBMIT SUGGESTIONS please use FEEDBACK CENTER at > >> > http://www.amibroker.com/feedback/ > >> > (submissions sent via other channels won't be considered) > >> > > >> > For NEW RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENTS and other news always check DEVLOG: > >> > http://www.amibroker.com/devlog/ > >> > > >> > Yahoo! Groups Links > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > **** IMPORTANT PLEASE READ **** > > This group is for the discussion between users only. > > This is *NOT* technical support channel. > > > > TO GET TECHNICAL SUPPORT send an e-mail directly to > > SUPPORT {at} amibroker.com > > > > TO SUBMIT SUGGESTIONS please use FEEDBACK CENTER at > > http://www.amibroker.com/feedback/ > > (submissions sent via other channels won't be considered) > > > > For NEW RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENTS and other news always check DEVLOG: > > http://www.amibroker.com/devlog/ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > >
