Author: Slater Wold
Date: 08:44:01 07/15/02
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On July 15, 2002 at 10:59:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. I went from a WD 7200 RPM IDE drive to a Fuji 10K SCSI drive, and saw consistant 15-20 percent gains in the search of half a dozen engines.
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