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Subject: Re: Wcrafty & Winboard problem/question

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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