Author: K. Burcham
Date: 21:51:02 03/13/01
ok so i boot up, start my program. set my hash to 128, with 384 megs of ram, and i start playing. when i start out the % of hash reads 0, and will climb to about 50% in 30 seconds. does this mean that one stick of ram is at this point half full of positions considered? if yes, then after every move why does this percentage go back to 0. does this mean the ram clears after every move? what is this 50% referring to? what is the 0% of hash, after every move referring to? also i have noticed how fast sos and shredder5 will fill hash. i can see why stefan always had a very large amount of hash in his tournaments, 768 megs. what are these programs doing in a long analysis, or in an all nighter? does this hash fill, and it just starts a read/write from the hard drive? or does the operating system constantly move these calulations to the hard drive to clear hash? if yes, then during this file moving, from ram to hard drive, can we say that the program never "thinks" to the hard drive (excluding tablebases), and only thinks (stores nodes) to ram? thanks xracer
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