Author: Mike Hood
Date: 08:20:15 02/27/02
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On February 27, 2002 at 10:46:46, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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 Thanks, I'll give it a try. Isn't it a shame that third party utilities are necessary to fix things that the OS is doing inefficently?
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