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Subject: Moderation: A message for xracer

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 15:18:58 06/26/00

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On June 26, 2000 at 17:37:18, xracer wrote:

>hi karens dad,
>first of all i thought for a long time that my system was swapping files, and it
>was not. my hard drive noise was occuring only in the end game. when your chess
>engine starts reading the endgame (large) databases, you will hear the hard
>drive, this is normal for large databases with windows 98. also i have monitored
>my kns many times during this part of the game, very small decrease in kns on my
>system. if you are still not satisfied, try setting the virtual memory, so that
>the operating system cannot change this during your game.
>
>this must be done in this order---first right click the my computer icon at your
>desktop, left click properties, performance tab, virtual memory.
>
>choose: "let me specify my own virtual memory settings". change this to: min  0
> max   0. now you must reboot. now defrag. now reboot again. now go back and
>change the virtual memory settings to min 100  and  max 100. this must be done
>in this order. reboot before your next game.
>
>note: defrag will not access this memory unless settings are at 0.
>
>this is for windows 98 only.
>
>                       let me know if this helps,
>                         xracer

Hi

I've emailed you a couple of times asking for you to give us your
full name. Could you email the Moderators with your first and last
names as soon as possible. We'd also like an email address that you
use regularly.

Thanks

Andrew Williams
CCC Moderator



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