Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 07:46:46 02/27/02
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On February 27, 2002 at 10:38:47, Mike Hood wrote: >My PC has 512 MB of Ram installed. (The prices fell so low that I couldn't >resist the temptation to upgrade). I thought this would mean I could use larger >hashtables for engine tournaments, such as 128 MB per engine. But there was >still a noticeable amount of disk-swapping. According to the Windows utility >System Monitor 197 MB of my memory was being used for disk cache! This figure >varies, and it seems to creep steadily upwards during tablebase access. Is there >any way to tell Windows to reduce the disk cache to a sensible level? I'm using a graphical utility called 'RAM Idle', which, besides a graphical display of free RAM, allows editing those settings. Try google for a link. -- GCP
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