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Subject: Re: Building enormous for Crafty

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 19:02:29 12/07/03

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On December 07, 2003 at 20:11:32, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 07, 2003 at 18:05:01, Sean Mintz wrote:
>
>>Amazing.  What are all the specs of the machine?  (looking for hard drive
>>speeds, specifically)
>>
>>Sean
>
>
>It is a quad 1.8ghz opteron, with U320 10K SCSI drives.  My dual
>2.8 xeon takes 9:06 to build this same book, so the opteron is
>faster.  Note that this is less about I/O and more about raw computing
>power since Linux is good about reading in advance on sequential access.
>
>Enormous is about 1.0 gigs of PGN, roughly.

Does everyone who use 19.6 need to build a new book? Or just linux users?

Will someone on a system like mine a P4 2.0 Ghz benefit from the new book?



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