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Subject: Re: Crafty SMP problem

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:17:55 01/24/01

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On January 24, 2001 at 06:51:30, David Rasmussen wrote:

>I have a problem with Crafty.
>
>I'm trying to run it on a solaris system with 24 CPUs (I've tried it as well on
>a 12 CPU machine of the same kind).
>
>I sometimes get the message "ERROR.  no SMP block can be allocated".
>What does this mean? What is the problem?


That is not a serious problem, but it does affect performance.  Look at
chess.h and change this:

:#define MAX_BLOCKS       16*CPUS

to this:

 #define MAX_BLOCKS       64*CPUS

and see if that clears it up.  I assume you are compiling with -DCPUS=24
already?



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