Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:42:15 05/12/01
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On May 12, 2001 at 03:22:30, Frank Phillips wrote: >When my program is running on FICS under Linux and accessing the EGTBs >(performing a lot of disk activity), it seems to forget to look at the input >from the server for long periods of time, so that the opponent's clock goes >negative. When not accessing the EGTBs (or running under Windows) everything is >fine. > >(Frustrating, since I may have to move to Linux if MS decide next that your >first born is part of the licence fee for using their sotware, in interests of >the consumer and to protect freedom and democracy against the evil threat of >open source software of course.). > >Any help appreciated. > >Frank There must be something else wrong. I run linux exclusively and have _never_ seen anything like this, period. I find linux scheduling and interrupt handling to be as good as anything around. You are not useing a node counter to trigger your input check I hope? IE if you decide to check every 500K nodes, and you reach an ending where you only search 50K nodes per second, you might not be checking for input often enough...
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