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Subject: Re: computer speed questions

Author: CLiebert

Date: 13:33:33 11/27/00

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On November 27, 2000 at 15:56:41, Chessfun wrote:

>On November 27, 2000 at 15:52:04, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I found in my engine-engine games that the number of nodes per second was too
>>low and I suspected that something is wrong with it so I decided to download
>>Fritz6light as the only active engine.
>>
>>Hiarcs7.32 was the only active program and Fritz6light was the only active
>>engine(32 mbytes hash tables).
>>
>>I found the same behaviour so I decided to check the numbers of nodes and the
>>times in the position after 1.a3 a6 2.e4
>>
>>I got the following results on my PIII450:
>>20 seconds 4737 knodes
>>56 seconds 13024 knodes
>>
>>This means only slightly more than 200 knodes per scond and it seems too low
>>because I know that the normal knodes per second is bigger.
>>
>>I decided to restart my computer and after doing it I found the following
>>results at the same conditions(Hiarcs7.32 is the only active program and
>>Fritz6light is the only active engine with 32 mbytes hash tables).
>>
>>14 seconds 4737 knodes.
>>41 seconds 13024 knodes.
>>
>>1)Can someone explain the reason that my computer became faster after
>>restarting?

May be the reason is a fragmentation of your memory.
Try to defragment your ram with memturbo or freemempro before starting your
chessprogramm.

Christian





>>2)Is there a way to know that my computer is slower without doing a test like
>>this test.
>
>
>I guess as you are running Hiarcs 732 interface you can run Hiarcsmark.
>
>Sarah.
>
>
>>I want to know if it is slower during an engine-engine game without giving it
>>the position after 1.a3 a6 2.e4 and checking the times.
>>
>>I can only suspect by looking at the number of the nodes per second because it
>>is possible that the number is smaller because of different position.
>>
>>Uri



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