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Subject: Re: Crafty fotr the Mac.

Author: John Scalo

Date: 10:59:05 08/18/98

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On August 17, 1998 at 07:27:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 17, 1998 at 06:32:24, William Dozier wrote:
>
>>Good morning guys:To whome it may Concern: Crafty 15.15 for whatever reason runs
>>out of memory under system under O/S 7 or 8. and have 64 meg of ram. So at this
>>time crafty 15.15 is of no use to me. But on the other hand versions 14.13 &
>>14.6 works well under the same system with books and T/B and it doesnt run out
>>of memory. In fact all versions crafty 15 is flakey(please this is not a
>>put/down). on my old Ppc. Is there anybody working on a more stable version that
>>does not us up a lot of memory?
>>
>>                             Respectfully/William
>
>Crafty doesn't use a lot of memory.  The Mac might think it does, for reasons
>unknown, but I have run it on machines with 1mb (PC) with no problems except
>for the small hash size (default) used...
>
>see if you have some option to tell the mac that crafty doesn't need more than
>15mb or some such number.  It must be assuming something big...
>
>and make sure you don't ask for some huge hash size (hash=48m will do the
>trick and make it take nearly 64mb, for example)

Try bringing the preferred size listed in the get info window *down*. I seem to
remember some other mac distributions of crafty having the mem partition jacked
all the way up to 120MB or something, which in theory would be ok - just
saturating all of your available ram no matter how much - but in practice this
is probably a bad approach.



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