Memory bloat just from opening NT7

[bluelou]

I'll follow your recommendation but I still didn't get why my messages "spam the log file" and affect NT's performance. Is the following T or F? If, during the same day, the log file has grown to 100 MB due to my "spam", and then on the same day I subsequently shut down and restart NT, is the 100 MB of "spam" loaded into memory?

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Yes, it loads the contents of the log files into the program for the current day. The items you see on the log tab of the control center come directly from the most recent log file.

[bluelou]

But, if I close NT and reopen it during the same day then the log tab appears empty. That's why I don't understand how the contents of the log file effect NT memory. If, upon reopening NT during the same day, the log file were loaded into memory, I should see it in the log tab, right? So, maybe the log file isn't loaded into memory upon reboot, but, nonetheless, a large log file effects performance in some other way. Does this make sense? I'm not trying to be a pain, I'm just trying to understand what's happening so I don't repeat the mistake in some other way.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Yes, you should see the contents of the most recent log file appear in the log tab. You should see this even if you shutdown and restart NinjaTrader. If you're not seeing the contents here, check the Right Click > Filter by Category selection to verify these items are all checked.

There's also a possibility that Ninja encountered difficulty opening and displaying your large file. Please try this with a more reasonable log file size.

[bluelou]

That's not what happens w/NT7.19 on my end. I just checked everything in Filter by Category and the only thing that's in the log tab is a small portion of the most recent backtest and none of the previous backtests. I guess it's one of the many "special features" of NT on my PC that isn't supposed to exist according to NT Support.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Note that it only loads the contents for the most recent log file(today's file). If this still isn't working the way you expect, please send a note to [email protected] Attn:RyanM.

Reference this thread:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=32069

We can work over remote assistance to determine why yours is operating differently.

[bluelou]

Note that it only loads the contents for the most recent log file(today's file). If this still isn't working the way you expect, please send a note to [email protected] Attn:RyanM.

Reference this thread:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=32069

We can work over remote assistance to determine why yours is operating differently.

Ryan,
As I said, the current day's log doesn't load into the log tab as you've described. But, this isn't a big deal to me now that I understand that the log is somewhere in memory even if I can't see it.

However, I would like to take you up on the offer of remote assistance. As you can read in the following link, http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/f...296#post183296 I'm having several problems with bugs that are not being caught by the NT compiler and are not showing up when using StrategyAnalyzer, but only show up in live trading. Thus, I can't trade and I'm trying to use Visual Studio as a work-around to the shortcomings of the NT compiler. Please send me a private mesg so we can coordinate regarding remote assistance.

Thx,
Lou