Author: James T. Walker
Date: 08:01:56 10/21/00
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On October 21, 2000 at 10:08:23, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >> Another thing about Junior 6. It crashes on me all the time. I have not had >> any problems with Fritz 6 (same GUI) crashing. > >It may be that hash size setting is too high and it Windows ends up swapping too >much to disk. I had an apparent crash with Junior 5.32, where in fact the whole >system would slow down what seemed like thousandfold. The Junior seemed to >ignore any hash size setting I would make in its dialog box (even though it >would show as if it took it) and would revert back to whatever its default was, >something like 64Mb (or maybe even 256 Mb). I had to go into its fritz.ini file >to change hash there and it worked fine after that. > >Another way (which also works for other apps with a similar memory allocation >bug) to see if the buggy hash size is the problem is to go into Windows Control >Panel, click System icon, then Performance Tab, then Virtual Memory, and there >you can turn off virtual memory (you need to reboot for change to take effect). >Then Junior won't be able to allocate more RAM than the system can actually give >it and at worst it may refuse to load or it wil automatically allocate less. I have two comuters, one with 160 M and the other with 256 M. Junior Crashes when using only 16 M of hash on both computers. Fritz/Nimzo/Hiarcs never do this. Jim
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