Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:28:08 10/27/01
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On October 27, 2001 at 06:42:09, Ron Langeveld wrote: >I was wondering whether you have generated the 6 piece EGTB yourself, and if so >what your experience is with such a task. I generated all the 3-4-5 piece files once. I have not tried a 6 piece file as they require a lot of memory and they won't generate under Linux (or at least they would not under older kernels because of a 32 bit file pointer limit). Eugene is doing the generating on alpha-based machines. They represent a huge committment of computing cycles. > >If more tables could be generated, how to go about ? Maybe more people of this >forum can participate in a cooperative effort, but then of course they would >want to know how much time generating just one table could take given a certain >hardware configuration. There might even be some practical limitation with >regard to hardware. I just don't know. Maybe you do. Eugene is working on the generator/probe code. He has already generated some 6-piece files that the current probe code won't handle properly because they are well beyond 2.0 gigabytes in size. He has said that this will be fixed at some point... > >Kind regards, >Ron Langeveld
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