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Subject: Re: Tablebase Sizes?

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 19:42:37 12/04/03

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On December 04, 2003 at 21:25:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 04, 2003 at 21:18:40, Anson T J wrote:
>
>>I have a few questions about tablebases, I currently have all the 3,4 and 5
>>piece ones. I'm thinking if I should get the 6 men ones too.
>>
>>1. Whats the total size of 2,3,4,5 and 6 men tablebases currently available for
>>download?
>
>Roughly 500 gigabytes.   :)
>
>>
>>2. How much Tablebase cache is required to use 6 men tablebases? (Will I need
>>more than 512 MB ram total?)
>
>
>You will need maybe 200 megs for the decompression indices.  64 megs for
>cache will work just fine...
>

I use 64 megs currently for my cache with Crafty, and I only have the 3,4,5 man
tbs. Wouldn't you need to use more when you goto the 6 man? Or am I using to
much as it is?

Peter.



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