Author: Jouni Uski
Date: 06:09:44 09/08/98
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On September 08, 1998 at 08:41:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 08, 1998 at 05:07:23, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>When I run pure wcrafty.exe I get in P90 about 17000 NPS, but under winboard >>about only 5000 NPS - is this normal? >> >>Jouni > >absolutely not. It should not change one bit, in fact. However, there >are some known bad things to do when using winboard: > >1. running another chess engine on the same machine at the same time. >This simply doesn't work. > >2. if you are logged on to a chess server, typing in the ICS window will >kill crafty's performance, because winboard takes a good bit of time to >handle the keyboard input plus sending/receiving stuff from the chess >server, which slows crafty *way* down... > >3. don't forget hash size. Winboard takes memory. Maybe enough that your >default (crafty.rc file) hash size becomes too large to fit into real memory >and makes things start paging.. But I don't run other engine, I am not logged to anywhere and I only use small hash! Jouni
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