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Subject: Re: Shredder 5

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 15:05:52 03/10/01

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On March 10, 2001 at 16:44:44, Michael P. Nance Sr. wrote:

>What would this help ,adding more mbs to the cache?What is the limit?How will
>this help me in long and short games?Will it slow down the program by having too
>much?Please tell me all the DO'S and DON'T pretaining to cache size.

From what I gather, increasing the cache size will increase performance
slightly. But I can't remember if there are any general rules, eg. regarding
hash and cache size combinations.

The thing to remember is that RAM used is program+hash+cache, so you have to be
careful not to increase the cache size too much considering your physical RAM. I
don't think that you'll have any problems with 512MB on your machine. That could
be divided as 160Mb hash+ 32Mb cache if you're running two programs at the same
time and leave plenty for the OS. A cautious rule is available RAM minus 100Mb
divided by two (if you running two programs).

Mogens.



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