512M is a suggesting used as a starting place that assumes you will want to do backtesting and optimizing. Clearly you would not do those on a micro instance - you would just do trading (which uses MUCH less memory, because you are not loading months of data into RAM).
256M of ram is enough to run Gnome, TWS, and JBT. I have been doing it for months. On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Knm <[email protected]> wrote: > I've noticed the IBGateway run param specifies -Xmx512M. Since the > micro instance only has 613mb memory, I don't think micro is > sufficient to run both Jbooktrader and gateway simultaneously.... > > > On Aug 14, 6:39 am, Klaus <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Nonlinear: two questions: > > - regarding the free micro instance, I suppose you mean the one year for > > free option? > > - did you already have experiences? Does it work for you? > > (I suppose the highly volatile market in the last two weeks should > place > > extraordinarily high demands. If a micro > > instance is sufficient then, then it is probably always sufficient..) > > > > Klaus > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "JBookTrader" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JBookTrader" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader?hl=en.
