MT4 eating my memory?

Hey guys, i don't know what i did to my mt4, but i think it had something to do with me trying to download the cvs files from the history section for back testing, anyways, every time i try to open Mt4 now, it wont open,i look in the task manager and its taking up over a gig of my memory.

how do i fix this? thank you.

I had the same problem before. Turned out to be one of my indi's.

Close your internet connection and then open MT4. (Offline)
Remove all your indi's and ea's and then reconnect internet.

Worked for me.

nope still no luck, i have the task manager open and once it tries to open, i see my memory shoot up to over a gig for terminal.exe

Did you remove all indi's and ea's.
What did you use to write to csv.

I deleted the Indi i dont know where the EAs are but i never use it so it should be clean, used the Tools > History Centre > and download export

Then i am not sure.
Maybe the History Centre is still busy downloading.

Hopefully one of the fundi's here will be able to help you.

try reducing the number of bars in your charts, if you can get into mt4 at all that is.

check that you haven't maxed the space on your hdd. it wouldn't surprise me that the history download ate the last space left on your hdd, and now when you try to run mt4 windows is unable to efficiently use it's swap file and is desperately trying to move memory on and off the hdd but has little space to do so and is choking.

that, or you have an instance of a crashed mt4 (or more) still running in memory halting all efforts to start a new instance. i hope you have done a windows reboot just to check for this.

reboot. check hdd space left. try running mt4. check hdd space left... see how that goes.

its trying to open previouse charts, which will have the cpu hog indy

to start mt4 with no open charts
in the mt4 installation folder
in config folder
delete charts.ini

now try to launch mt4

edit, i told you wrong
i went into the profiles folder
in default folder
deleted a file there that started with ch
then mt4 started without open charts

so, mt4 instalation-profiles-default
delete the chr files

those files are your saved charts

it's pretty fucking ridiculous that mt4 doesn't keep track of if it closed ok or not, and if it didn't close ok then to not load a goddamn thing.

what a joke. it's so archaic feeling sometimes.

This is not a good idea.

I often produce crashes while developing DLLs for my indicators or EAs. I would not want to have it forget all open chats and all loaded EAs only if a crash had happened.

It is easy to just delete or rename the offending indicator or EA (or follow the documented procedure to remove all open charts as a last resort) and then simply restart MT4 without crash but it would be a major headache if one had to reconfigure the whole environment every time after every crash.

In a real live scenario it could also be windows itself crashing for some completely unrelated reason or the virtual machine or the VPS session or whatever. Normally you just have to restart MT4 and all your EAs continue where they left and this is a good thing[tm]. Otherwise a lot of people (including me) would complain.

i'm not saying it should just forget everything normally loaded... simply don't load it (safe mode) this time and allow the user to remove from the list what they don't want loaded next time.

windows keeps track of if you shutdown properly or if the power simply dropped. all it takes is creating a file when a program runs oncreate, and then deleting this file onclose. if the file is already there when running the init stuff in oncreate then it's clear it never got to run onclose last time and hence something was not right, hence should run in 'safe mode' and allow the user to fix the issue. none of this arcane deleting oddly named chart files etc. if mt5 doesn't have some sort of failsafe programmed in such as this then i'll be very disappointed when i finally have to migrate.

10 year old games used to do exactly this process to check if everything ran fine last time or not, or if a graphics configuration or something crashed the system. directx used to be a bitch on second-rate gfx cards and was destined to crash until you found the right settings for your card.

kill the process terminal.exe

disable your a/v scanner temporarily

go to the broker, download a fresh installer

run the installer and direct it to install into the SAME folder

you can now re-enable the a/v scanner

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