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Subject: Re: Deep Junior 8 / Junior 8 CPU Affinity Bug!

Author: Anson T J

Date: 15:59:04 06/04/03

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On June 04, 2003 at 18:44:37, Marc van Hal wrote:

>On June 04, 2003 at 18:32:43, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>>On June 04, 2003 at 14:54:30, Anson T J wrote:
>>
>>>Has anyone noticed if you do engine matches with Junior 8 / Deep Junior 8, ZX,
>>>YY (any of them). If you set 1 thread per engine (on a dual machine), they share
>>>1 cpu with a net cpu usage of 50% !!
>>>
>>>Deep Fritz 7, Shredder 7 / 7.04 and all other SMP engines I know of don't have
>>>this problem.
>>>
>>>I guess the Junior 8 engines fix the affinity of the single cpu setup meaning in
>>>an engine match or tournament they share the same cpu instead of using one each.
>>>
>>
>>Didn't think of this, damn.
>>
>>
>>>Any fixes known?
>>>
>>
>>The problem should come up whenever running one DJ version against another with
>>no. of threads set to less than no. of processors. I can't think of any
>>workaround. I should get rid of processor affinity in that case.
>>
>>Amir
>
>How come I only have 1 version of
>which is Junior 8.001
>Though I made a full install.
>
>Marc

Junior 8 comes with one engine. Deep Junior 8 comes with three. Rest assure the
Junior 8 (8.0.0.1) is the strongest version for the single cpu machines :)



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