Author: Alessandro Damiani
Date: 09:11:58 02/27/02
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On February 27, 2002 at 11:20:15, Mike Hood wrote: >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? You forgot that Windows is the most important application on that OS. :) Alessandro
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