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Subject: Re: Impact of disk performance in endgames

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:59:04 07/15/02

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On July 15, 2002 at 08:57:13, Gordon Rattray wrote:

>I currently use Fritz, etc. to analyse a lot of endgame positions.  During the
>search there is often a large amount of tablebase hits (I'm currently using all
>5 man TBs with a 32Mb TB cache).  It regularly seems that the disk access speed
>is more of a bottleneck than the processor.
>
>Should I consider using a faster disk (I'm currently using a 7200rpm IDE drive)?
> Will it be worth it?  Should I use SCSI instead of IDE?
>
>thanks in advance
>
>Gordon


SCSI is definitely better.  10K and 15K drives are also definitely
faster...  The probes are I/O intensive, so anything you can do to
reduce I/O costs will help the engine.  This includes a larger Cache
also, of course.

• Re: Impact of disk performance in endgames Slater Wold 08:44:01 07/15/02
  • Re: Impact of disk performance in endgames john rice 11:05:26 07/15/02
    • Re: Impact of disk performance in endgames Slater Wold 18:44:27 07/15/02
      • Re: Impact of disk performance in endgames john rice 20:35:40 07/15/02
    • Re: Impact of disk performance in endgames Anthony Cozzie 12:27:41 07/15/02
      • Re: Impact of disk performance in endgames Slater Wold 18:28:54 07/15/02
      • Re: Impact of disk performance in endgames Dann Corbit 12:47:04 07/15/02

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