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Subject: Re: Engine testing: Memory Speed vs NPS at 400 & 32mb hash settings

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 09:57:27 08/08/02

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On August 08, 2002 at 11:25:46, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>The testing was done on my AthlonXP 1900+ (1.6GHz) at 1.8Ghz, 150fsb(300DDR).
>I set it to 1.4gb/s and 2.2gb/s (just over a 57% memory speed increase) for the
>test.
>
>ChessTiger 14(192mb hash): 1.4gb/s 608kn/s, 2.2gb/s 671kn/s, 10.362% difference
>ChessTiger 14(24mb hash): 1.4gb/s 681kn/s, 2.2gb/s 729kn/s, 7.05%
>
>CB* Crafty 18.15 (288mb hash): 1.4gb/s 1005kn/s, 2.2gb/s 1073kn/s, 6.766%
>CB* Crafty 18.15 (30mb hash): 1.4gb/s 1066kn/s, 2.2gb/s 1133kn/s, 6.285%
>
>Deep Junior 7 (400mb hash): 1.4gb/s 1215kn/s, 2.2gb/s 1243kn/s, 2.3%
>Deep Junior 7 (32mb hash): 1.4gb/s 1236kn/s, 2.2gb/s 1273kn/s, 3.0%
>
>Fritz7 (400mb hash): 1.4gb/s 991kn/s, 2.2gb/s 1060kn/s, 6.963%
>Fritz7 (32mb hash): 1.4gb/s 1043kn/s, 2.2gb/s 1094kn/s, 4.89%
>
>Hiarcs8 (400mb hash): 1.4gb/s 195.6kn/s, 2.2gb/s 216kn/s, 10.43%
>Hiarcs8 (32mb hash): 1.4gb/s 229.8kn/s, 2.2gb/s 242kn/s, 5.31%
>
>* Chessbase version
>

This was a discussion with Crafty a long time ago with hash settings. It was
easily explained.

When the hash setting is lower the nps is of course higher. The more you
increase the hash table settings in any program the nps will decrease but the
depth will increase thus providing a better search due to storing more in the
hash tables.

While the knps is nice what is more important is depth. Without that there is
nothing. You get outsearched and you lose.

Don't ever set the hash tables to high though. This will induce hd swapping and
will kill everything.



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