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Subject: Re: Winboard Script

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 12:00:45 02/07/00

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On February 07, 2000 at 14:13:33, tony watson wrote:

>I have all my Winboard engines working and running
>fine (apart from noonianchess that is, it devours all my
>available memory and everything giinds to a halt)
>
>I am having a problem writing a script which will
>allow me to run a tournament between several
>engines......any examples of such a script would
>be much appreciated..........thanks in advance....
>tony.

You probably have too much hashtables in all the programs, one of the first
things I have to do when I download a Winboard program is look in the initiation
file (cfg, ini, init, rc, something like that) and see how much is asked for.

Because if that program wants 32mb hashtable, and then some more for the pawn
hashtable, then some more for some other odd thing, then I have to cut it _way_
back, because I only have 40mb memory, and a big chunk of that is used by the
very gready Windows gui itself.  So to be honest, I can't give a program more
than about 10mb for hashtables believe it or not.

Sometimes the Dos Comet will use approx 14 mb hash when run from Windows, and
since the Dos Comet uses whatever memory it has available to it at the moment,
that 14 mb give you a rough idea of what _I_ have available out of my total of
40mb memory (after Windows sucks the life out of it)

Pete



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