Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 02:00:32 05/23/98
Go up one level in this thread
Crafty has no problems exiting but maybe that is because it is 1st on the command line. The real effect of extra Comet processes is a weakened Comet!!!! On May 22, 1998 at 03:52:58, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >On May 21, 1998 at 23:18:39, Komputer Korner wrote: > >>When playing against Crafty in the Winboard chess GUI, the Comet process >>sometimes will not shut down when a game is finished and a new game >>starts up. Therefore there can be 2, 3, 4, or more Comet processes >>still running in RAM each grabbing some of the CPU after a few games >>into the match. You can shut down the extra processes, but it is tricky >>deciding which Comet process is the actual game process. Until this is >>solved alomg with the inability to turn pondering off for Comet during >>matches, there can never be fair unbiased matches using the Winboard >>GUI. > >When winboard quits a game, it has to send the command "quit" to the >chess programs. >On receipt of "quit", Comet exits (it's very simple, no doubt at all). >What else can I do ? >May be you should be a little bit more careful with assigning bugs to >progs ?
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.