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Post From: Volume By Price causes Replay to be so slow it is unusable

[2021-04-28 01:03:40]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
We are still looking at this. The one area of concern with efficiency, did not identify any problem. But we need to look more closely at that.


However, this confirms, there is not a performance issue related to searching for a specific date-time:
If this was the case why is the 1st test so fast? It accesses 15 months worth of data in a 1 Minute Chart in 8 minutes.

If this was the case why is the 1st test so fast? I
Probably you are dealing with an operating system and hardware performance issue.

Would be very unlikely to be a performance issue within Sierra Chart itself. Would not even make sense. So you are asking a question we cannot answer and we do not know the answer to. Sierra Chart is going to work consistently. So I think it is safe to say you are dealing with operating system and hardware performance issues which are out of our control. However, we need more time to look into this. What you have said here, we have heard more than once. There really would not be anything within Sierra Chart which would progressively create a slower performance issue during a chart replay. Other than more memory being allocated in the chart as it gets larger but if you are already loading a lot of data in the chart and you notice that the performance is good as compared to running a replay for a while, which at that moment is loading the equivalent amount of data, then it's not the amount of data.

If your hardware is very fast and you have a lot of memory you really should not notice an issue.

In the end, we think it is very unlikely with what we know, at this point, that we can do anything to help. All evidence at this point, points to the operating system and hardware. That really is the only logical conclusion. However, we do not want to give you the impression that spending a lot of money on new hardware is going to help because we really do not know. But it would be interesting to find out. Maybe we could test on one of our high-performance servers that have about 400 gigabytes of memory.
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