Author: Slater Wold
Date: 22:28:35 12/18/03
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On December 19, 2003 at 01:21:45, Jouni Uski wrote: >After installing more RAM to my Pentium 2,4 GHz I tested Fritz8 in some test >suites with 128MB and 384MB hash (time limit was 10 minutes and positions quite >hard = average solution times around 3-5 minutes): to my surprise >average solution time was shorter with 128MB! Why? Absolutely no hard disk >swapping with 512MB total RAM! > >Jouni Windows is kinda crappy here... I watched Bob go from 384MB to 4096MB hash the other nite, and his NPS did _NOT_ slow down. Not even a FRACTION of a percent. Of course, he was running SuSe (Linux). In Windows, that isn't going to happen. Every single time you edge your hash up, you'll probably see a slowing down of NPS. Why? Swapping. Windows does *too* much of it. Turn your swap file off, and see what happens. ;)
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