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Subject: Re: CDB and large pgn files

Author: Peter Herttrich

Date: 03:56:05 09/02/98

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On September 01, 1998 at 02:24:08, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>I am trying to create a large book to look through via CDB 1.5.  I am running
>Windows NT 4.0, with 128Mb on-board, and a 500Mb swap file (starts at 300Mb).
>
>I tried to import rock.pgn into CDB (compression after 100 ply), I got an error
>message after some of the games were imported.  I tried with wall.pgn and got
>the same error:
>
>
>    Could not allocate 65536 more bytes in database with 104856628 bytes
>
>
>When I press OK, it is followed by:
>
>
>    Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
>    Runtime Error!
>
>    abnormal program termination
>
>
>When I press OK, the application closes, and the games that were imported up to
>that point are lost.
>
>I am not sure how many games are in wall.pgn and rock.pgn, I think wall might
>have 300-something thousand in it.  Am I asking too much out of CDB?  Or with
>some configuration tweaking (e.g. drop "Compression" value to 80 ply) could I
>get it to work?

Rock has about 600.000 games, the actuell version, which I'm working on,
has about 780.000 games, and I haven't reached the the top of the mountain :-)
the whole thing has abt 500 MBytes. Fit for a CD :)

Perhaps Peter should change the structure a little bit?


>
>Dave Gomboc

cheerio
Peter (another one)




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