Running 100 MT4 Terminals
- Depending on the number of charts open and number of bars on chart and number of objects EA creates, terminal takes 150-300mb ram. Better have 30GB on your system.
- Depending on how much cpu the EAs take, assuming 10% of 2GHz you'll need a 8 core 2.5GHz cpu
- With 32 charts open I get 1.5KB/s so plan on a 150 KB/s network minimum.
- MT4 run on WINDOWS only.
Hi there,
I am currently working on a project that will require me to run 100 MT4 terminals simultaneously. Can someone tell me what are the hardward & operating system required to run 100 MT4 terminal simultaneously? Is it better with Linux or Windows. Can I do this on a QUAD PC or Dell Server?
Your help is greatly appreciated.
I will have to disagree with my learned colleagues here. I think you haven't got a chance in hell of running this on one machine, regardless of the number of cores. You can only run one instance of MT4 on a machine anyway (with the standard installation).* You can run multiple accounts using the multi-account (name?) version of MT4 ( a different program). If you want 100 users, each using their own MT4, that is quite different. (All of this is well beyond my expertise and experience I hasten to add). My dual core 2GHz AMD on XP with 4GB RAM is noticeably slow when changing accounts and timescales (>10 seconds) probably because the charts are long (100,000 bars).
Since each instance is going to be down loading its own price data your internet traffic could get pretty high. I would experiment with this and get 4 working so you can really get a feel for the problem in order to quote on it sensibly. I think you are going to need racks of computers, not just a high power system.
*Apparently you can run multiple instances of MT4 as mentioned in the posts below.
I will have to disagree with my learned colleagues here. I think you haven't got a chance in hell of running this on one machine, regardless of the number of cores. You can only run one instance of MT4 on a machine anyway.
I have 4 instances of MT4 running 24/7 on a i7 machine with 6GB RAM with no issues at all.
Interesting. Thanks for the info.
Are you running the Multi-terminal MT4 or, if not, how are you getting them to run on the same machine.
I have 4 instances of MT4 running 24/7 on a i7 machine with 6GB RAM with no issues at all.
I have got running 4 instances, each with an EA on a AMD 3700+ wit 1 gb of ram. no issues at all.
Ok, I guess I'm being a bit thick :-(
I'm now guessing that if you copy the MetaTrader directory to a new directory like MetaTrader_A you can run another instance in that one too. I just tried copying my MT4 directory, but at 7GB that seemed boring as an experiment, so I cut it short. I normally run another instance on my laptop, as that gives me more screen area as well.
Ok, I guess I'm being a bit thick :-(
LOL . . .
I have instances running with different Brokers ;-) and each in it's own directory.
The requirement for multiple simultaneous terminals on one machine is that the terminals are installed into different directories.
I have 1 live, 2 demos, and 1 testing/development running simultaneous on my workstation... no problems at all.
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Hi there,
I am currently working on a project that will require me to run 100 MT4 terminals simultaneously. Can someone tell me what are the hardward & operating system required to run 100 MT4 terminal simultaneously? Is it better with Linux or Windows. Can I do this on a QUAD PC or Dell Server?
Your help is greatly appreciated.