Betfair API-NG - Version 1.3f Released

[shabazz]

bets placing, markets switching is laggy

[pmcpi]

Hi,

The in-play trading feels rather sluggish. I played around with some horse markets, and the bet placement seems to take an extra second to appear, and even when I hit X to cancel all bets I see an extra delay (almost to 1 second) to update my interface.

The ping ranges between 70-100 when before was a little faster (around 60), and it isn't from CPU nor memory (from the windows task manager I have a lot to spare).

Geek, if you need more information please let me know.
Cheers

[The Geek]

They had a limit on them.

Can you send me the details of the bets, EG back / lay, amount, and limit amount and we will try to replicate.

[Piririu]

lots of memory use and slow slow slow

Hi,

The in-play trading feels rather sluggish. I played around with some horse markets, and the bet placement seems to take an extra second to appear, and even when I hit X to cancel all bets I see an extra delay (almost to 1 second) to update my interface.

The ping ranges between 70-100 when before was a little faster (around 60), and it isn't from CPU nor memory (from the windows task manager I have a lot to spare).

Geek, if you need more information please let me know.
Cheers

I have same issue. I work with 10-12 diferent markets same time (one ladder of each) and after 5 min it becomes very slow responding (change ladder selection, closing a ladder, open ladder) it consumes about 1Gb memory but i have 16Gb so no problem there. Cpu is intel core i5 that never reach 100% when open or closing the ladders.
Everything work fine with 1.2p with old api so must be some memory problem on this new api versions.

[pilovip]

hi, i cant open the inplay interface, i found in the show hide, but dont open, i use version 1.3f, windows 7, thanks

[jack_daniel]

Well I'm also struggling with this new version.
One of the major changes I see is the ram consumption. I have always had several ladders open at the same time (around 60 with just 1 column each) and my ram consumption never exceeded the 500 mb of ram (more or less). Now, with only 10 or so, I get values higher than 1,2 GB after some hours of trading.
I think that this might be associated with the "unbearable slowness" of this new version. Even to open a market or to change the selection of one, takes like 2 or 3 seconds... It was almost instantaneous with the previous versions.
CPU usage goes up to 80% simply by trying to change a selection in one ladder.
I know you are working really hard to fix this, and I have to thank you for that. But at this time, geeks toy is almost useless to me and to a large group of users. I think I'll take some forced vacations until all the issues are fixed.
As a "soccer only" trader this are the main differences I see. The slowness is really a noticeable one
Best regards, and sorry for my English

[hiznyak]

V.1.3f
The program is running slower than version 1.2:
- The markets are opened slowly, there is a delay on my actions, sound lags after bidding (I see how stake is matching, but hear after 0.4-0.7 seconds).
- when I open a market that is already closed - nothing happens (in 1.2 version shows a message that the market is already closed)

[CacoFerrara23]

I share with the other users some issues. Soccer markets take forever to close and to open, comparin to the version before, off course. Some other issues are negligible, but the slow open/close and update of in-play markets are a real concern. Hope you guys are able to fix it.

Best regards,
CacoFerrara23

[d70ejk]

Is there any reason why the new software would change a £198 lay at 1.01 into one bet of £138.62, 21 bets at £2.78 and one of £1? Or -as I suspect - is it just Betfair's new way of stealing a few extra pennies out of me?

[d70ejk]

On closer investigation, I suspect Betfair may have changed the way they're settling markets, though I can't be sure and it's too painstaking to find for certain.

[stanislav]

Previously this I detect when shipping market appears a total payment of £ 123,456,789, with all marketih equal to the amount of the payment, after a few seconds, the payment is automatically corrected, or is it something related to the problem.

[custard]

Is there any reason why the new software would change a £198 lay at 1.01 into one bet of £138.62, 21 bets at £2.78 and one of £1? Or -as I suspect - is it just Betfair's new way of stealing a few extra pennies out of me?

Your bet is being matched fully. How are they stealing money from you ? This has always the way in which bets have been displayed on the main Betfair site so I cannot see any problem. Three different people have been used to get your bet matched.

[d70ejk]

Your bet is being matched fully. How are they stealing money from you ? This has always the way in which bets have been displayed on the main Betfair site so I cannot see any problem. Three different people have been used to get your bet matched.

Because normally - and until two days ago - my £198 would have been a liability of £1.98. Now the bets are being settled as connected to the backers' wins and not my layer's liability. So each £2.78 bet is going through as a 3p loss for a total of 21 x 3p = 63p loss, and not a total bet of 21 x 2.78 = £58.38 and a 58p.

I've looked at my bet history and I found a couple of other examples - both from the last two days - but can't find any before then, including one lay of more than £500 which was settled as one bet. It might be entirely a coincidence and it is only pennies so I'm not going to get too bothered by it, but if that £198 bet had been entirely £2.78 bets then it's going to start to make a difference.

[The Geek]

Going to close the thread now as we have a new beta, please report any new issues there.