Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 00:45:48 05/29/98
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On May 29, 1998 at 01:13:05, Komputer Korner wrote: >... > >I checked the log file of Comet. I guess it must have a limit of 32Mb >hash table. >I gave Comet 48Mb not knowing that the limit is 32Mb. I will change >Comet's hash table size. However I have 144Mb of RAM in a WIN NT 4 >system. WIN NT 4 unlike WIN 95 DOES NOT load 2 copies of the same >application including hash tables every time into memory ( one into >cache and the other into main memory). WIN NT 4 does not do this so you >can run programs like Nimzo 98 and Crafty which will take all the hash >RAM you can give it in WIN NT 4 without disk swapping. In WIN 95, you >have to limit the hash tables to less than 50% of the RAM. Fritz is an >exception. It does not have this problem in WIN 95 because it has >extension modules that load as separate processes for the engines. They >somehow get around the WIN 95 problem of loading 2 copies of a program. >So my system and setup is not the cause of these timing problems. One >simple solution would be for every engine programmer in Winboard not to >send a move before the engine resigns, instead the engine should just >resign if it is going to resign. Sorry, I can't follow your arguments. Anyway, I am not quit happy with the way you treated the problem, KK. Instead of emailing a bug report with debug data to me, you posted the thing here with a title which makes my program appear ridiculous. I will not support this problem any more, anyway wouldn't know what to do.
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