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Subject: Re: Question about hash-tb size for Gambit

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 18:43:23 04/26/01

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On April 26, 2001 at 20:38:18, Robert Raese wrote:

>On April 26, 2001 at 20:36:25, Robert Raese wrote:
>
>>On April 26, 2001 at 20:15:47, Dan Andersson wrote:
>>
>>>That should be an easy one to answer, 192MB is maximum for Tiger and 16MB TBs
>>>are recommended. And thats way under 256 MB.
>>
>>i'd be interested to know how the figure 16MB was arrived at... if that is the
>>optimal setting for all time controls, or just for long games.  i don't really
>>know the mechanism of how TBs are used by the program, so i'm wondering if
>>adding more RAM could help or even possibly hurt performance?
>
>* i meant adding more RAM to the TB cache.



Well... My computer has only 96Mb RAM, so I cannot experiment up to 256Mb...

But I think that adding TB cache will only increase performances, until you
reach a point where the OS has to swap data back to disk because your are using
more than the available RAM.



    Christophe



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