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Post From: SC burns CPU resources on continually accessing data files even with markets closed

[2016-04-02 03:26:01]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
We will look this over and improvements are coming in this area but we have never known any case where frequently reading the last record which is cached by the operating system presents any measurable or noticeable load.

You should notice the CPU usage remain at 0 percent.

Either something is not right on your system, or the CPU usage is coming from somewhere else.

Also if you are using an extremely low Chart Update Interval, that might be contribute to the problem but still we do not think this would be measurable. Certainly not 8 to 10 percent.

At this point in time, anyone else checking their CPU usage so long as they are not using studies which continuously update they are not going to notice the CPU be higher than 0 percent as long as they are not interacting with Sierra Chart.

For example running Sierra Chart on our system we notice 0% CPU usage. We have 50 charts open. What you claim to be the problem is not. It is something else on your system, like antivirus software, or with what you are doing.
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Date Time Of Last Edit: 2016-04-02 03:32:49