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Subject: CM8000, 101 patch - still too many engines running

Author: William Penn

Date: 04:00:18 03/02/01


I still get too many engines running in Game Room, infinite time, Thinking Lines
& Visual Thinking open, with custom defined personalities. There seems to be no
good way to get rid of the extra engines. If I close then reopen CM with the
same settings, they're still there. I can close the engines via Ctrl-Alt-Delete,
which seems to be the only way. The disadvantage of that method is that Windows
98 then kicks the corresponding hash tables up into the win386.swp file, which
thereafter grows to a very bulky size and the hard drive does a lot of work. For
example right now I'm using 256MB RAM, 128 hash tables, and my swap file is
454MB. Apparenlty it works, but it makes most operations slow thereafter while
the hard drive manipulates the inflated swap file. I guess all I can suggest is
that there should be some way to start up everything without any engines
running, then select what you want to run. Apparently there isn't any way to do
that at present.
WP



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