Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 22:37:29 12/18/03
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On December 19, 2003 at 01:28:35, Slater Wold wrote: >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. ;) please explain this swapping. Thank you
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