Author: Robert Allgeuer
Date: 04:02:13 10/11/03
Go up one level in this thread
On October 10, 2003 at 19:55:10, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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: >>>> >>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... > Thanks, I am quite convinced that it is some "strange" and more complex effect, which is linked to my particular setup. In fact during the 3-4 minutes Crafty does not do anything, in particular no disk activity, also no CPU usage (looked at performance monitor). There is more than enough physical memory left, the system is not thrashing. I would be inclined to believe that it is linked with the .net compiler and me not having installed the .net environment. To verify this I will install the .net environment, an Intel compiler binary of Crafty 19.4 would also allow to test this theory. Robert
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.