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Post by crabbyoldgit on Apr 28, 2018 6:50:06 GMT
It's Saturday , rspca rules the hamster has the weekend off again. Normal , well done some sort of service resumes Monday
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Post by lynnanthony on Apr 28, 2018 7:11:32 GMT
Yes, me too, I have buy orders that have not moved at all, nothing at all today, last one was 23:58 yesterday. I've only just decided to move into using MLA and really not impressed as I moved money out of QAA to here, and some of it has been sitting around for going on 3 days - frustrating as the availability is showing. I mentioned this about 18 hours ago yesterday here p2pindependentforum.com/post/263519/thread but no comment from the Assetz rep Why not impressed? Idle MLA funds can still be in the QAA earning interest; just click the setting on the QAA.
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Post by pikeman on Apr 28, 2018 7:24:37 GMT
Yes I have just realised that you can set up a QAA sweep which earns interest whilst waiting for monies to be invested on the MLA. I have only just come back to Assetz to invest my IFISA. When I last had funds with Assetz about a year ago I don't remember having to wait so long to get my money invested on the MLA.
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Post by puddleduck on Apr 28, 2018 7:36:35 GMT
Yes, me too, I have buy orders that have not moved at all, nothing at all today, last one was 23:58 yesterday. I've only just decided to move into using MLA and really not impressed as I moved money out of QAA to here, and some of it has been sitting around for going on 3 days - frustrating as the availability is showing. I mentioned this about 18 hours ago yesterday here p2pindependentforum.com/post/263519/thread but no comment from the Assetz rep Why not impressed? Idle MLA funds can still be in the QAA earning interest; just click the setting on the QAA. Thanks - I had not realised that, I was moving money from my cash account direct to MLA or from QAA to my cash account into MLA. MLA to be moving again, after only 1 buy on the 27th, for me it looks like it kicked off working again just past midnight on 28th and 5 parts were bought between midnight and 4:30am and then nothing again up to 8:30am at the time of the post. I probably need to stop looking at it, but I'm surprised by how slowly the SM runs, when I used to be on FC, with a willing buyer and willing seller, you could trade on the SM seemingly as soon as the buy / sell button was pressed.
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Post by chris on Apr 28, 2018 9:11:37 GMT
Yes I have just realised that you can set up a QAA sweep which earns interest whilst waiting for monies to be invested on the MLA. I have only just come back to Assetz to invest my IFISA. When I last had funds with Assetz about a year ago I don't remember having to wait so long to get my money invested on the MLA. You didn't back then but we've gained a lot of lenders, loans, and data since then. There's a big rewrite of the marketplace coming in another week or two aiming to address the performance issues amongst other small improvements.
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Post by bg on Apr 28, 2018 10:23:25 GMT
Yes I have just realised that you can set up a QAA sweep which earns interest whilst waiting for monies to be invested on the MLA. I have only just come back to Assetz to invest my IFISA. When I last had funds with Assetz about a year ago I don't remember having to wait so long to get my money invested on the MLA. You didn't back then but we've gained a lot of lenders, loans, and data since then. There's a big rewrite of the marketplace coming in another week or two aiming to address the performance issues amongst other small improvements. Any progress in fixing the 'Total Investment' bug? Mine has been off for weeks now. Every time I speak to customer services they say it's with IT.....must be a simple fix, surely?
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Post by misscas on Apr 28, 2018 11:13:29 GMT
Further to my post on 709 thread (sorry don’t know how to do links) I am delighted to report all my IFISA buy orders were filled between 11pm and 1am. Thank you hamster for working overtime.
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Post by hantsowl on Apr 28, 2018 11:18:41 GMT
Things did start moving for a while, but no purchases in PSA since around 2am. Looks like it has stopped again.
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Post by dc848 on Apr 28, 2018 11:50:01 GMT
Over 23,000 investors, 378 loans, multiple account types. Rebalancing processes in the background constantly running. These are some of the factors which generate what must amount to BILLIONS of transactions per day as the 'shrapnelator' splits your 1 buy/sell instruction into many times more secondary transactions.
From time to time, you will perceive inactivity - but this system is still churning away in the background.
Occasional perceived slumps in performance are inherent.
I think its the price you pay for your fair crack of the whip.
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Post by puddleduck on Apr 28, 2018 12:40:02 GMT
Over 23,000 investors, 378 loans, multiple account types. Rebalancing processes in the background constantly running. These are some of the factors which generate what must amount to BILLIONS of transactions per day as the 'shrapnelator' splits your 1 buy/sell instruction into many times more secondary transactions. From time to time, you will perceive inactivity - but this system is still churning away in the background. Occasional perceived slumps in performance are inherent. I think its the price you pay for your fair crack of the whip. I'm pretty sure the system is sub-optimal. Transaction processing is really a bread and butter system design use-case. If the system is indeed producing 'billions' of transactions, then there needs to be some root and branch re-design. I've not been really involved in coding for 20 years, but the principles have not changed. I'm coming from the days when 1 Mhz was considered fast, you learned to design well to prevent needless iterations, I think lot of skills have been lost as folks have forgotten how to code at a lower level, using calls to high level APIs with no knowledge of what goes on under the hood. It seems to be a tendency of modern coders use increasing processor power to paper over algorithmic inefficiency. I imagine any competent 'C' coders from 20 years ago would be pretty horrified that transaction processing over a relatively low number of accounts can take much more than a few seconds, let alone take days to run.
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Post by chris on Apr 28, 2018 12:55:48 GMT
Over 23,000 investors, 378 loans, multiple account types. Rebalancing processes in the background constantly running. These are some of the factors which generate what must amount to BILLIONS of transactions per day as the 'shrapnelator' splits your 1 buy/sell instruction into many times more secondary transactions. From time to time, you will perceive inactivity - but this system is still churning away in the background. Occasional perceived slumps in performance are inherent. I think its the price you pay for your fair crack of the whip. I'm pretty sure the system is sub-optimal. Transaction processing is really a bread and butter system design use-case. If the system is indeed producing 'billions' of transactions, then there needs to be some root and branch re-design. I've not been really involved in coding for 20 years, but the principles have not changed. I'm coming from the days when 1 Mhz was considered fast, you learned to design well to prevent needless iterations, I think lot of skills have been lost as folks have forgotten how to code at a lower level, using calls to high level APIs with no knowledge of what goes on under the hood. It seems to be a tendency of modern coders use increasing processor power to paper over algorithmic inefficiency. I imagine any competent 'C' coders from 20 years ago would be pretty horrified that transaction processing over a relatively low number of accounts can take much more than a few seconds, let alone take days to run. You'll be pleased to know that I learned to program on a ZX81, Amstrad CPC464, and learned machine code on the Z80 CPU and then assembly on the ARM 2 in an Acorn Archimedes later learning C, before working my way up into higher level languages. I've coded Java through to Erlang. As I'm sure you'll remember computer performance tends to be rather cliff edge in nature - all is fine until it's not and then things can snowball. The sluggishness at the moment is down to a few factors hitting at similar times, all related to scale. As I've posted several times we're within a couple of weeks of a ground up rewrite being released which aims to address all the performances issues whilst keeping the same overall philosophy of a market that runs in unison periodically so that there's no fastest finger first issues. We're just aiming to get that "periodically" to be far more frequent. The software upgrade is the first step, there's a hardware upgrade coming a few weeks later that will give another boost, and then there are further system changes coming down the track to further improve performance across the board.
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Post by lobster on Apr 28, 2018 14:17:58 GMT
......there's a hardware upgrade coming a few weeks later that will give another boost, and then there are further system changes coming down the track to further improve performance across the board. All sounds promising , if it works as planned. Just don't skimp on the testing. Apologies for being a bit negative, but I can't help feeling a bit nervous in the wake of the TSB debacle , (much as I'd like to know how much is in everyone else's accounts) 
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Post by warn on Apr 28, 2018 20:12:44 GMT
... I learned to program on a ZX81... Sprog!
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Post by chris on Apr 28, 2018 20:16:20 GMT
... I learned to program on a ZX81... Sprog! Heh, I was 7 at the time. And we had the 16KB expansion pack, so perhaps I've always been inefficient and spoiled for resources.
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Post by trevor on Apr 28, 2018 22:42:28 GMT
I also remember the zx81 Chris, you've given your age away!
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