I am running my MT4 platform on a VPS (Virtual Private Server). I started off with 2 Gigs of RAM, which I knew eventually I need to increase.
Over the last few weeks the CPU usage was hitting 100% often and staying there which slowed everything down. I increased the RAM from 2 to 6 GIGS which helped some. But it was still spiking to 100% and not recovering.
After doing a little research I came across two postings regarding improving MT4 speed.
The first is:
Optimizing Metatrader 4 performance - Marko Nikolic Investment Research - mnikolic.com
It shows you how to reduce the MAX history bars and bars shown. This one did improve things immensely.
The other one is:
Simple tips to reduce MT4 memory use ‹
which shows you how to turn off several settings you may not need.
Turning off the things you aren’t using is a good practice.
Best Regards & Happy Trading! :59:
Stevecsd