Author: William Penn
Date: 17:39:12 10/22/02
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On October 22, 2002 at 12:49:13, Rory Nolan wrote: >I know this q. has been asked many times before but I am still somewhat confused >about this. I recently set DF7 analysing a position over night only to find 10 >hours later that it was analysing at 1 knps! This was on a laptop with a P4 2.2 >(desktop) cpu 512 ram (192mb for hash). I think I am right in saying that this >was due to memory leak. Any idea how I can prevent this do retail progs. like >memturbo really help or is there a free solution? >many thanks in advance and sorry for being so off topic >regards >Rory Was it an endgame position with a lot of tablebase access, so the hard drive was constantly working? That's the most difficult situation on my W98se system. The best result for me is to set the tablebase cache size to the minimum 1MB, so ChssBase.ini reads (for example): [Tablebase] Path=C:\TABLEBASES CacheSizeKB=1024 You can set the cache size directly with a text editor such as Notepad, or via the Options dialog box (Tablebases tab) in Fritz. If that is not the cause, then it sounds like you may have a memory management problem -- cause unknown. I'm not sure if anything will help. I'm currently experimenting with a related tweaking utility called "CacheMan" for W9x/Me available at: http://tweakhomepc.virtualave.net/memory/vcache.html I like what it does, but don't have any solid scientific evidence to back up my opinion. Most authorities say to let windows handle it and avoid all such memory management tweaks, but I'm not convinced. I like to tweak it. WP
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