Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 16:55:10 10/10/03
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On October 09, 2003 at 11:46:06, Robert Allgeuer wrote: >On October 09, 2003 at 09:26:31, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 08, 2003 at 19:18:09, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On October 08, 2003 at 18:26:49, Robert Allgeuer wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>Hi, >>>>when starting up Crafty 19.4 (executable from Dann Corbit´s site) it takes ages >>>>to recognize the tablebases, in fact around 3 to 4 minutes. There are no error >>>>messages and everything works fine after that. My old Crafty 19.1 recognises the >>>>egtbs with an identical crafty.rc file almost instantaneously. >>>> >>>>My rc file: >>>>hash 96M >>>>hashp 8M >>>>cache 8M >>>>drawscore=0 >>>>log off >>>>book on >>>>book random 1 >>>>book width 5 >>>>learn 0 >>>>resign 9 >>>>tbpath=f:\tb >>>>egtb >>>> >>>>Is this normal? If it is a problem is it known and is there a work-around? >>> >>>Probably due to the new EGTB code (which will work with Eugene's new humongous >>>EGTB files) >> >> >>It shouldn't be any slower however, unless he has added some of the new >>endgame tables. The more you add, the more indices there are to read. > >I have a full set of 5 men, 4 and 3 men tablebases, and none of the new 6 men. >It is under these conditions that startup takes these 3 to 4 minutes on my >system. Startup messages indicate that this is exactly when Crafty looks for the >tablebases. During this time it appears that Crafty does not do anything, no >disk activity and no CPU usage. Crafty 19.1 with exactly the same rc file >recognises the identical tablebases within a few seconds. I had the same effect >with Crafty 19.3b, btw, but attributed it to beta status or whatever and stuck >with Crafty 19.1. After the 3-4 minutes etgbs are however correctly recognised, >the respective console message is printed and everything works fine. >I conclude from your post that the same problem does not occur on other >machines. About the only thing that will cause this is excessive paging. Either you are running other applications that are using most of your real RAM, requiring that they be swapped out, or else somehow you have told crafty to use too much RAM (although the above hash/hashp/cache sizes look fine). My crafty 19.4, on my 750mhz laptop with a slow eide disk, starts very quickly and I have all 3/4/5 piece files on this machine as you do... >Running on Win2k SP2, Athlon TB 1.1 MHz, 512 MB RAM, secondary IDE disk, chess >program and egtbs are on same physical disk and logical partition (F:). > >Robert
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