Author: Scott Gasch
Date: 12:00:13 03/17/02
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On March 17, 2002 at 03:45:37, martin fierz wrote: >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 Mem Size in the task manager is process resident memory size. Add "Virtual memory size" (View -> Select Columns) to see your process' total footprint (including what's paged out). If you want to lock your data structures in memory look at VirtualLock in the win32 api. Scott
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