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Subject: Re: Generating EGTB's

Author: James Swafford

Date: 16:35:56 04/29/01

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On April 29, 2001 at 12:37:18, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

It's been a while since I've generated any tb's (I recently downloaded
5 man from Bob's ftp), but you may try looking in the tbgen.zip file
for some documentation...


>Hi all,
>
>
>I am trying to generate the Nalimov EGTB's on a machine with 256M
>RAM. (+270M swap in linux, I can get more swap if I switch to windows)
>
>If I understand correctly I will not be able to generate them all
>with this configuration. But which ones will work and what would
>be the optimum settings for generating (i.e. the -m and -c paramters
>for tbgen) For example, I tried generating knnkp with -m 300 -c 100
>and it was terribly slow because it had to swap continually...the
>tbgen program often was only using 5% cpu.
>
>I am downloading the ones I suspect I wont be able to generate myself
>from Bobs ftp site. However these are compressed, I suspect I will
>need to decompress them first before I can use them to generate others?
>
>Where can I find the compression/decompression program? (sources or
>linux binary)
>
>--
>GCP



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