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Subject: Re: memory under win2000

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 15:03:50 03/16/02

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On March 16, 2002 at 17:42:07, martin fierz wrote:

>aloha!
>
>i just wrote a program which computes checkers endgame databases; i'm working on
>the 8-piece database. my PC has win2000 on and 1GB ram. i have noticed something
>strange: the task manager says that my application has used a maximum of 577'000
>KB (i've forgotten the last 3 digits). but in fact, it is using much more, on
>some seed passes on the database, where it has to use the results in other
>databases, it needs over 1GB. i just upgraded my PC from 640MB to 1GB to build
>this db more efficiently, because the disk access hurts the performance, but it
>still says that the maximum mem used is 577'000KB - even though it would have
>much more ram to use now. does anybody have an idea why windows won't let me use
>this ram?
>
>cheers
>  martin

I've used 900MB+ of memory running Crafty.  It's your program.



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