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Subject: Re: Tablebase Sizes?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:48:42 12/04/03

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On December 04, 2003 at 22:42:37, Peter Skinner wrote:

>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.


More is better.  I was giving him what would work OK on 512mb machines...



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