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Subject: Re: Swapping

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:10:19 08/31/00

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On August 31, 2000 at 19:06:57, Roger Kyte wrote:

>Hello,
>
>When a chess engine is running, is there much swapping occuring with the hard
>drive ??  How much ??  Allot ??


Set up properly, there should be zero swapping.  Compare the speed of accessing
something in memory vs the speed of doing a seek/read from disk.  7 orders of
magnitude different...



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