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Subject: How To Fairly Allocate Resources Between 2 multitasking Chess Programs

Author: fca

Date: 08:13:06 08/12/98


This has arisen from a post by Mr Langrath elsewhere.

If multitasking two chess programs on one PC, and playing a game between
them, how does one "fairly" allocate resources between them?

I accept there is no question of properly deducing playing strength in such a
scenario.  That is NOT the objective, therefore.

0. What does "fairly" mean?

1. RAM?

2. CPU %?

3. Idle / background priority?

4, Thinking Time set on program?

and especially

5. Should permanent brain be switched off on one or both programs?

Ideas on how to arrive at the answers, please, or better still - the answers
themselves. :-)

Kind regards

fca

PS: This is I believe one of the more interesting questions for newbies and
others.  So please confine trolling answers to the other place.



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