Author: martin fierz
Date: 00:45:37 03/17/02
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On March 16, 2002 at 18:03:50, Slater Wold wrote: >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. or maybe it's just me - i found that last time i looked i had been using 950MB. so it just seems that windows sometimes decides to page some of my ram and sometimes not... aloha martin
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