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Subject: Re: Is this true?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:49:22 04/25/00

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On April 25, 2000 at 03:26:55, Jouni Uski wrote:

>Even if You have dual prosessor mainboard and Windows NT You can't play
>engine-engine matches with ponder on!? Reason: if both engines are using same TB
>path so there is conflict, when they access them simultaneously...
>
>Jouni

That can hurt a bit, but I don't think it critical.  I run such tests all the
time to check for bugs.  Both programs are likely probing the same databases,
and the O/S should do a decent job of caching stuff to make this not too much
of a problem.



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