HEM Seriously Lagging Computer

Ok, I know there was a post at FTR a few months ago to help deal with lag issues with HEM but cannot find it. My computer is running ridiculously slow again and doing the same thing as before once I got a ton of hands in HEM and forced me to reformat. I don't want to do that again. Is there a way to fix this? I am pretty sure this would work (but don't want to lose data so have to ask just in case) but can I just dump a ton of HHs that I want onto my laptop? I have a huge external harddrive that I could put HHs in as well but it's connected to my main computer, would that mess it up?

I never use my laptop so having that as my "stats" computer would not make me mad at all if an option.

Thanks guys.

have you tried vacuum analyzing the database? It worked for me before, but now I have to do it manually for some reason. Go to the HM forum and look around, there is a ton of options there.

Didn't know what vacuuming it did so haven't tried it but I see it takes a few hours and I need to use my computer all night so I will try it before bed time. Thanks Jyms.

bit of a longshot here ...? you say you have a ton of hands how much free hard disc space have you got and have you defragmented the drive lately?

309 GB free and have not defragmented the drive lately.

Defragment, also purge hands if ur datamining, and vaccum/analayse it

I bookmarked it from the thread by Daven. Or was it Dozer. Or Dev.

HEM Performance Tips

Assuming you're using xp while its running slow do a ctrl-alt-delete to bring up the windows task manager. Click on the processes tab and then look down the CPU column to find out which preocesses are using the CPU the most .

Thank you guys. Unfortunately none of this has fixed it . I am running vista but here is the CPU screen shot:

Are you serious? your running skype and ituneshelper and who knows what else all filling up your memory? 71 processes is way too many. I am running 58 with all my poker shit going.

was that screen shot taken when it was lagging? CPU usage is 3% so you have plenty of processing power available. Since Phsical memory is 49% its fairly likely that that your page file is getting hammered with lots of hard disc activity ensuing and this is slow.

Click on the performance tab, then in the bottom right theres another button you can click on but I can't remember what its called at the moment and it brings up another window so you can monitor you network , memory and hard disks. Check under the memory one and see how many "hard faults" you are getting . each "hard fault" is when the computer goes to fetch some data from memory and finds that that address has been paged out , so it then has to go and write some of the memory to hard disc and then fetch the actual page of memory it needs from the hard disc before it can carry on where it got to. If you are getting lots of these hard faults its likely that you either need to put more ram in or run less programs .
I'll have to look when i get home but hard disc tab could be interesting as well , if its on the point of failing you could be getting lots of read problems slowing down the swap file but thats fairly unlikely as you're ;likely to be getting lots of lockups and crashes.

What are the machine specs laptop/ tower ram and or make etc. I t could be why reinstalling the OS worked last time , you went back to a minimum number of programs installed, as time has gone by you use more programss and they all clutter up the memory with some code ready for when you run that program again and it all takes up memory.

How are the temperatures? Is it running hot? is the computer well ventilated?

if it was temperature related I can't see how an OS reinstal would have fixed it last time. If it was temperature related then thermal protection on the cpu would kick and slow the cpu down.

Originally Posted by Keith_MM

was that screen shot taken when it was lagging? CPU usage is 3% so you have plenty of processing power available. Since Phsical memory is 49% its fairly likely that that your page file is getting hammered with lots of hard disc activity ensuing and this is slow.

Click on the performance tab, then in the bottom right theres another button you can click on but I can't remember what its called at the moment and it brings up another window so you can monitor you network , memory and hard disks. Check under the memory one and see how many "hard faults" you are getting . each "hard fault" is when the computer goes to fetch some data from memory and finds that that address has been paged out , so it then has to go and write some of the memory to hard disc and then fetch the actual page of memory it needs from the hard disc before it can carry on where it got to. If you are getting lots of these hard faults its likely that you either need to put more ram in or run less programs .
I'll have to look when i get home but hard disc tab could be interesting as well , if its on the point of failing you could be getting lots of read problems slowing down the swap file but thats fairly unlikely as you're ;likely to be getting lots of lockups and crashes.

What are the machine specs laptop/ tower ram and or make etc. I t could be why reinstalling the OS worked last time , you went back to a minimum number of programs installed, as time has gone by you use more programss and they all clutter up the memory with some code ready for when you run that program again and it all takes up memory.

I'm getting 0 hard faults and every once in awhile it'll say 1.

My specs are:
Dell Inspiron 530s
Processor: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz
Memory: 4.00 GB
Hard Drive: 306 GB of 455 GB free

try downloading speedfan to get your system temperatures and cpu-z so you can check what speed your cpu is running at.

Temp1: 85C
Temp2: 42C
Temp3: -62C
HD0: 41C
Temp1: 40C
Core 0: 50C
Core 1: 43C

This thread might help: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/48...indows-597610/

Windows running insanely fast now.

alexos FTMFW

Blah I decided to just reformat again. I've since used Alexos' link which seems pretty useful. I still have a problem though, even though my computer runs fine now, I still see 40+ processes at all times when going to task manager. Any useful links or anything on how to figure out which ones I can get rid of and to get to whatever I should be at?