Speedy Servers

[KateMoloney]

Just wondering if anyone else has had issues with speedy servers running out of ram?

For the first time in 5 months, I was not able to login this morning – due to ram being overloaded.

I am running the 4GB plan and TWS takes 2GB of that ram.

Only the API & TWS running on the server.

Currently talking to Sam from speedy about it, whether I upgrade or see if it was just a once off.

Curious to know if any others have had this issue?

[Nick Radge]

I use 2.25GB and have had no issues in the last 2-years

How many API instances are you running?

[KateMoloney]

By API instances do you mean number of API programs?
I have one API managing 2x MOC strategies. Should I have one API per strategy?

Sam got me to check something and there were no RAM overloads or errors reported in the last 24 hours.

[Nick Radge]

An instance = number of APIs. One shouldn’t be dragging the system down.

[SladeChisholm]

My 2 cents.

TWS has a large RAM footprint which slows down my VPS.

To mitigate this I do the below:
Keep open applications on my VPS to a minimum. Closing AB, Norgate, Excel etc when not running explorations.
Close TWS screens when not in use eg Trade Log, Account screen etc.
Minimise TWS when idle so it doesn’t need to render any graphics.
Review RAM usage for each application in Windows Task Manager before I disconnect.

You can configure the amount of RAM used by TWS in the TWS config screen under Configure -> General -> Memory Allocation in MB (the default seems to be 768mb). I would be reluctant to reduce this.

I would think 4gb should be enough to run our processes with reasonable performance. If not, you could try a reboot of the VPS which helps with most problems.

Cheers

[JulianCohen]

If you run Gateway instead of TWS that will reduce the RAM usage

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