MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

Dear Support,

I've just updated form MC 6.0 to MC 6.1 and now MC gives me this warning :"Your Pc is running out of memory".
I'm always using the same workspace as before and form the Task Manager there are no issues that my pc is running out of memory (2.8giga used on a total of 6giga).
My workstation is a HP quad-core with Win7 and 6giga of RAM.

In attach you can see the message and my task manager, with Multicharts using 357,000KB of memory.
Where is the problem?

Thank you for the support

Same for me.

I know this is listed as a feature in the release notes, but it seems there ought to be a way to control the threshold of notice on 64 bit machines with lots of memory.

Yes, I know that MC runs each process as a 32 bit process, but they should be able to use up to 3GB (true?) per process to the total of the real memory.

So it seems reasonable to be able to set this higher for a machine, true?

You may want to check the following thread:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7669

Thank you tcat, very usefull.

I don't know if it is possible to allocate 3 giga to a 32bit process, but someone knows if can we lunch 2 copies of MC (2 process of 2 giga ) in order to find a workaround to this virtual memory "limit"?

thx

Dear ilt000,

If the most of the memory is consumed by the multicharts.exe process, then running multiple instances of MC will help you. However, if it is tsserver.exe which consumes the memory, there is no point in running multiple instances.

Thank you Dave,

Yes, I've checked with Process Explorer in order to see the virtual memory consumed by the process and I've got Multicharts.exe always near to 1giga.

Do you think is it better to run another Multicharts.exe process or gave more memory to the only one Multicharts.exe process with a largeaddressaware?

Thank you

Dear ilt000,

It is better to to run another Multicharts.exe process.

It's often said that MC displays the "out of memory" message when it reaches around 1.5 GB. I've always seen the message appear well below that threshold - often around half that. It's a bit silly since even with 32 bit PC, it should be a lot better than that. Remember virtual memory can exceed the physical memory, although things will slow down significantly due to page faulting. The 32-bit limit restricts the address space of windows processes to 2 GB by default, which can be extended up to 3 GB using appropriate switches in the boot.ini file. So, I don't understand why MC gives up well below these limits.

Dear janus,

When the memory consumption goes higher 1.6 GB, the application may behave incorrectly, that is why we have introduced this warning message. If you extend the address space of windows processes to 3 GB using switches in the boot.ini file, it will not affect MC performance. To make MultiCharts take advantage of this enhanced 3 GB limitation, you need to recompile it. Basically we will nee to create a special version of the program, like the version for a different OS.

Again, all the problems related to 2GB limitation of 32 bit processes will be solved once MultiCharts transitions to 64 bits.