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Subject: Re: Shredder 5

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 06:57:43 03/11/01

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On March 11, 2001 at 09:50:55, Michael P. Nance Sr. wrote:

>On March 11, 2001 at 08:16:28, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>
>>On March 11, 2001 at 08:01:34, Michael P. Nance Sr. wrote:
>>
>>>On March 10, 2001 at 18:05:52, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>>>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.
>>>tThanks for the information,I'll give it a try and play around with it.I also
>>>will be using this Program on 1 p/c only,so i should have no problem.Is there
>>>any other little "TIPS" that You can tell Me about,maybe You've found something
>>>on Your that I haven't ran accross yet.Keep in mind,I'm interested in playing
>>>strenght.Anyway,I want to thank You for all Your help.If there is anything I can
>>>do for You please let Me know.My e-mail is NANCE050557@PROGIDY.NET.Once again
>>>thank You.kind regards,Mike
>>
>>Switch off all multimedia stuff that according to Stefan slows Shredder down
>>considerably. Go to Settings -> Sound/Voice and click on "off".
>>
>>Enrique
>Is there anything else that can be dis-abled that will add to the playing
>strenght? Mike

As far as I know, no. Switch Sound/Voice off, install the Nalimov tablebases,
use the tournament book and set the hash size as big as possible.

Enrique



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