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Subject: Re: Ridiculous RAM requirement for 6-man TBs?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:46:40 04/08/03

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On April 08, 2003 at 12:04:47, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>So I've downloaded the 3/3 tables from bob, and I'm wondering why they take so
>much memory.
>
>tablebase_init(): found EGTBs with up to 6 pieces.
>tablebase_init(): EGTB indices & decompression using 197659kb of memory
>
>Thats 200MB of ram right there, and I'm not even done downloading.  Not only
>that, but they take almost 10 seconds to initialize.  Have I misconfigured
>something, or are they just that much of a memory hog?
>
>anthony

You need big memory for tablebases.

How do you expect your computer to remember results of all the 6 piece
positions without them?

Uri



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