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Subject: Re: Any chance to increase the hash in CM7000?

Author: Francesco Di Tolla

Date: 03:48:27 03/09/00

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On March 09, 2000 at 06:17:20, Harald Faber wrote:
>>3c) I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for here. Please explain >>3d) Yes (finally!)
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>I gave up hoping for this, now it really happens! :-)

this is a reason good enough to upgrade!

[...]

>>5) Actually, Johan has stated that The King can handle hash table sizes up to
>>640MB(!), but development team rightly feels that that is overkill. Even Johan
>>has said that, in most circumstances, anything more than 16MB is unnecessary.
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>OK, when Johan says so...even MCP8 fills 61MB easily on tournament mode on
>K6-200 and the King is not much slower.

>So
>>the GUI will allow the user to set values up to 64MB (perhaps 128MB). Remember
>>that the TYPICAL Chessmaster user could get himself into serious trouble by
>>cranking the value all the way up on his mimimum spec machine.
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>Would it be hard for the programmers to get the physical free RAM and set the
>hash automatically to the first value below that size?


Why not having the interface limited to a small number, 32 or 64MB, and value
admittet via ini file arbirary? [Undocumented option]

regards
Franz



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