[Jonathan]

Hi,

My PokerTracker performance has become so slow
that I'm on the point of giving up PT entirely.
(I'm currently using the Access database).
I sent the following note to Pat on the PokerTracker
board and I'm awaiting his reply and suggestions.

But I wanted to post it here too, to get feedback from
others who might have had similar problems and how they
went about solving them. I'm sure that there are tons
of players out there whose databases are much larger than
mine.

In particular, did converting your database to PostgreSQL solve your performance problems?

Thanks for any input and advice.

Jonathan
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Hi,

I've been a PT user and supporter for several years now. But
lately my performance has degenerated to the point where I just
can't use the program.

For example, when I open the program, and go to view tournament
statistics, it can take up to 3 or 4 minutes to retrieve the list of
tournament players. I have the same problem whenever I change
any of the filter options. While PT reads the list of tournament
players, the cpu utilization jumps to 100% and all other functions
on the machine come to a standstill. Its become very very
frustrating to use the program at all!

My database file is 51MB, which doesn't seem all that big. My PokerStars
tournament database has 144,129 hands and 68,864 players.

My machine is a Dell Inspiron 8200, with 2.2 Ghz pentium, 512MB
memory, and Windows XP Home.

What can I do? If I switch to the SQL database will that help the
performance problem? What about buying a new computer? I've
looked into buying a new machine, but put it off when I saw that
the current crop doesn't seem to be all that much better than
what I've got.

Please advise!

Thanks,
Jonathan