the problem is that if i pull up Windows Task Manager and watch the Performance tab i see memory consumption increase linearly with time until after about 30 - 60 minutes all 8GB of system memory are consumed. at this point the app and machine become sluggish. i've tried a couple different things. i've tried doing 'abort', then once that finishes up i reboot the machine and then relaunch the same download job. problems with this approach are:
1) risk of corrupting the data base if the abort doesn't go well
2) symbols are not downloaded in alphabetical order nor does the app give any indication of progress of the overall download job so i have no way to know if i'm making my way through the download job or if i just keep redownloading the same symbols every time i restart but after 3-4 days of this i am concerned it's the latter.
3) i am restricted to downloading during hours when i am awake and available to reboot my machine every 30 minutes. that is, i can't do downloads overnight while i sleep cause it pegs memory and seems to stall eventually. plus i'm concerned that it's thrashing on my solid state drive which could wear it out prematurely.
3) it's inconvenient
i have tried just letting it run overnight and that just stalls a some point in the night. i have to kill the entire NT process and reboot machine to get things going again.
A) is this normal/expected?
B) is there a way to know status of the overall download job?
C) when i 'abort' then reinitiate the download on this same instrument list does it start all over from the beginning or is it smart enough to know that some of the symbols are already downloaded/saved and don't need to be redownloaded?
setup: NT 7.0.1000.22 64 bit, Kinetick paid subscription
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