Author: Slater Wold
Date: 22:32:05 12/22/01
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On December 23, 2001 at 00:11:33, K. Burcham wrote: > > >cool let us know how this turns out slate. >i looked at a scsi controller, and a 15000 cheetah with large cache >today, it was about $500 for both at gamepc. > >also a question slate. i can see where this hd speed increase will help when >using tablebases for the endgame. but if we have large ram, 1 gig or more, >it seems the program will not even use this hard drive access speed increase, >that the scsi offers. for example, for a midgame position. once the hash fills, >do you think the program starts to read/write to the balance of the ram that is >available, or do you think once the hash fills the program starts a file swap to >the hard drive. or do you think with direct memory access on, the program will >read/write directly to the hard drive. please explain how you think all this >data swaps, and reads and writes. > >kburcham You should never swap in a chess game. It's very bad. Even with the hash is full. Check perfmon to make sure you aren't. The SCSI drives I bought this week are _TWICE_ as fast as my old IDE. I don't expect a huge gain from anything, I've just been meaning to go to SCSI for a long time. And now I have, for very cheap.
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