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Subject: Re: I have made an error ...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:42:41 04/26/01

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On April 26, 2001 at 06:44:14, Frank Quisinsky wrote:

>On April 25, 2001 at 23:32:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On April 25, 2001 at 15:49:58, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>>
>>>Hi there,
>>>
>>>I gave Crafty 2 CPUs, see the np/s from Chess Tiger.
>>>The games will be replayed.
>>>
>>>:-((
>>>Frank live ...
>>>I forgot to adjust "Thread = 1" in the options from Crafty :-(
>>>
>>>Best
>>>Frank
>>
>>
>>Ugh.. if that is on a dual, it will kill my program.  I get two threads
>>going, tiger has a third, and that is bad.  It is quite possible that I
>>was searching nothing much at all in some cases.
>>
>>The problem is that one thread might be sitting on a spinlock and running
>>while the other thread is not executing due to Tiger.  That is just wasting
>>the second cpu.  Crafty's parallel search _absolutely_ must have 100% of all
>>the processors you use it on... or it will die horribly.
>>
>>It doesn't like 'shared machines' for the parallel search.  _ever_.  It isn't
>>harmful for the serial search of course.  But for the parallel search, it is
>>awful.
>
>Hi Bob,
>
>since the latest Chess-Base "Native" versions of Crafty it is possible to set
>under Engine options "Thread = 1 or 2" on dual machines. Default = Thread 2 on
>Dual Machines. So I mus adjust Thread = 1 for Engine - Engine matches.
>
>Here I made a big mistake and forget to adjust Thread = 1 :-(
>Christian Koch see this (not enough np/s for Chess Tiger in the games where I
>have yesterday here posted).
>
>Sorry, I must replayed the games.
>
>BTW:
>Thanks to Chessfun for his comments.

Correction:
her comments and not his comments

Uri
>
>Best
>Frank



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