Optimizer improvement - PAUSE button

[misova]

Hi,
I would like to suggest to add a PAUSE/RESUME button to all optimisations.

Reason is, that optimization can take a lot of time (many hours, sometimes even days),
and it eats all CPU resources/cores. It would be very convenient to be able temporary
pause this time-consuming optimization if needed, to be able to run other tasks/applications, and then resume the optimization process later.

[sledge]

Or you could set task priority in task manager to very low. This should free up your system enough. And you could go further and set it down to one core in processor affinity in task manager.

[misova]

Maybe one additional/different point of view, would be to preset a PRIORITY when running optimisation
and this priority could be used to set priority of the threads, created by that optimisation window.

There would be only 2 useful settings - DEFAULT and LOW priority.
These is need for HIGH priority.

Benefits of this approach is,that it non-intrusive and very easy to-do change.
When user expects the long-running optimisation, how could select low-priority, that
would not significatnly block his computer, during long hours, that optimisation can take.

[misova]

Or you could set task priority in task manager to very low. This should free up your system enough. And you could go further and set it down to one core in processor affinity in task manager.

I really see this as an acceptable solution .. Good idea.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello misova,

Thank you for your post.

Overall performance of the NinjaTrader application and improvements to the Strategy Analyzer are major enhancements that will be included in the next major release of NinjaTrader. For a list of the major enhancements please take a look at the following link: http://www.ninjatrader.com/downloads...njaTrader8.pdf

Please let me know if you have any questions.