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Subject: Re: Crafty is busy waiting on one cpu

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:37:52 08/13/01

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On August 13, 2001 at 09:24:21, Mark Longridge wrote:

>I'm running crafty on a dual 550 system, and I've noticed that when playing on
>fics if it's opponent resigns, crafty is still using 50% of the available cpu,
>e.g. it's busy waiting on one cpu.
>
>This is under NT 4.0, but I'm curious if it also does this under unix, and if
>so, where in the code might one tweak it so this doesn't happen?
>
>Mark


To fix this, add the -xReuse option...  this will cause xboard/winboard to
stop the engine when a game ends.  Which will stop the "cpu burning" you are
seeing.



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