Tips to increase speed in importing purchased hands and general HUD performance

[Arizona Willie]

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These might be good for someone playing WOW or something similar.
But I'm almost always multi-tasking and would be leery of having my background processes shut down.

I found it annoying that it took so long to import purchased hands so I experimented with raising the priority and that made a nice difference. Also raising the priority of the hmhud.exe seems to make the HUD perform better.

My system runs fine for playing Mass Effect but then I'm not playing war games online against live players. That game booster would probably help those who are doing that though.

[_Loki_]

@Arizona - not just WOW

Its called 'Game Booster', but people use it for other reasons too - the point is YOU can choose the setup mix that activates when you put your PC into 'game mode' using Game Booster

Therefore you can choose a setup for say HH importing & it will be remembered for when you need it

I don't know if it only remembers one setup - I suspect so

[DeepBlue]

I was wondering - has anyone experimented with boosting the poker site's software thread priority as well, or would that be prioritizing too much (and thus taking away from the benefit)? I guess any delay one sees is from the HUD and the import, not really the poker site, right?

[Arizona Willie]

I would think the speed of the site would be regulated by your internet connection and by the traffic on the net. I doubt if raising the priority of the poker client would help much. Wouldn't hurt to try it though.

But you will probably get the biggest bump from upping the priority of the things running on your computer such as HM rather than things bringing data in over the net.

I've discovered killing my virus program while importing or doing data base maintenance really speeds things up ( but shutting down my modem so I'm not vulnerable on the net during the process ). Using Process Monitor in Windows 7 I could see my virus program was watching every read and every write and that really slowed everything down. Normally you only read a small bit of data and write a small bit so the virus program supervising doesn't have much effect. But when importing hands or scrubbing the database it is a matter of constant reading and writing and having the virus program supervise each read and write creates tremendous overhead and drastically slows operations. And, since these files were created on your computer by your computer or are purchased hands from a trusted source there is almost zero chance of any virus infestation. Just don't forget to shut down your modem so you are disconnected from the net.

[DeepBlue]

Right, I learned a long time ago to simply not run antivirus on my poker virtual machine. I don't surf the web at all so there's no chance for infestation except for any vulnerabilities in Windows (but I am behind NAT and the Windows firewall is still active).

The thing is I just see such a difference when running 10+ tables with the HUD on vs. off that I think a computer upgrade is inevitable (I've posted elsewhere about it but basically I'm running on a seven year old machine right now - I could use my fairly recent Macbook Pro but I don't like having only one external monitor, but still I guess I could try it again now that I'm ten tabling just to see if the speed increase is there, with the same virtual machine so that nothing else will change).

[michty6]

Hi

Prolly a newbe question but, I've been trying to do this (set affinity/priority) in Vista but it keeps popping up saying 'The operation could not be completed. Access is denied'. Any ideas what to do?

I assumed it was something to do with user privileges but I am logged on as the administrator and running the program as the administrator...

[Arizona Willie]

You can disable User Account Control --- or upgrade to Windows 7.
If you're logged in as administrator I don't know why you are getting that message. Hmmm, perhaps you need to click on the program and set it to run as administrator before you try to set the priority.

[michty6]

I disabled user account control and that worked - I had already tried running the program as an administrator to no avail... Weird. Thanks!

[absolid]

You may all know this already but I havn't seen it anywhere so far in any of the performance threads.
When I have big batches to import like 1million, I make the batches smaller say into 100k or 200k lots and import them that way. I have tried all the performance increase tips and can usually get around 40-50 h/s, but if I make smaller batches I can get this number to double.
This however is on a brand new quad core, 4gb ram, 2 500gb in raid-0, with a relatively small data base. Making the batches smaller is the biggest speed difference I have noticed.

[rowhousepd]

Does anyone know if you should also be setting the POSTGRES processes to high as well (& keep them that way)? Wouldn't that also boost performance, perhaps just as much as setting the HEM processes to high?