Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 08:37:05 03/25/03
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On March 24, 2003 at 17:15:39, John Merlino wrote: >On March 24, 2003 at 06:56:21, Javier Ros Padilla wrote: > >>BUG in Fritz under Win2000 >> >>in WIN2000 you can key Control-Alt-Del and run Task Manager >>in engine-engine matches you can see, processes, CPU, time and memory employed >> >>for example Fritz 8-CM9000SKR (TheKing323) Hash tables 64 Mb for each >> >>Program CPU Time Memory >>Chessprogram7.e 99 18:06 70.348 Kb >>TheKing.exe 00 10:44 63.216 Kb (these values may depend on machine) >> >>if you minimizes Fritz program when TheKing is thinking, for example for read >>mail, the amount of memory employed by Chessprogram7.e fall to aprox 2004 Kb >> >>SO HASH TABLES ARE CLEARED!!! >> >>if the game continues, when Fritz starts to think the memory raises to 70.348 Kb >>and this value remains high for the rest of the game >>so the problem is not very serious >> >>I have observed this bug in Fritz 7 and Fritz 8 GUI >> >> Javier Ros > >I wouldn't exactly call this a bug, but rather an annoying but not surprising >necessity of multitasking. > >The Chessmaster GUI does, in effect, the same thing only more so. The >requirement of a "minimized" program is that the program should take up as few >resources as possible. ?? There are 2 different things - background processing and suspending or pausing a program. From your post seems windows programs developers didn't grab that simple 'background' idea. I would expect a program to continue calculations when I decide to minimize it. If I want to stop the autoplayed game I can do it myself.... -Andrew- >The CM GUI actually shuts down any game in progress, >shutting down both engines as well, if the application is minimized. When the >app is reactivated, the engines are re-launched and told where in the game to >start thinking from. > >The problem is that there is no "pause" command in the Winboard protocol (or, at >least not in v1), so there was no other solution available. > >jm
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