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Subject: Re: Memory leak ?

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 08:56:20 02/02/04

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On February 02, 2004 at 09:41:48, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 02, 2004 at 06:05:03, Sirotovich wrote:
>
>>Dear Chess Friends !
>>
>>I would appreciate your advice in regard of my questions.
>>
>>1)	I have a very long discussion with my overseas friend. We both have pretty
>>good computers, which have very similar hardware. Our computers run Windows XP,
>>they both have 512 RAM, 80Mb HHD, etc. The only difference is my PC has Pentium-
>>4  2.8GMhz and it has 128Mb graphic card, meanwhile my friend’s PC is a bit
>>slower and it has 2.4 MHz and 64Mb graphic card. But ! His Fritz 8 runs faster
>>on his computer, why ?! Does it has anything to do with the graphic card, or
>>maybe another application on my PC makes Fritz slower ?  My Fritz shows around
>>900-1100 Kn/s, when my friend’s Fritz has up to 1500 Kn/s.  How can it happened
>>, if I have a faster machine ?
>
>what kind of memory?  RDRAM can make a chess engine run a bit slower.  There
>are too many variables to answer without specific hardware configuration details
>for both machines...

Also:  Were you both evaluating the same position(s) when you measured Kn/s?

Bob D.

>
>
>>
>>2)	And another very annoying problem. 2 days ago I bought a laptop with a new
>>ADM64 bit processor.  Mainly I use it for my job, but also I installed some
>>chess program on it. First, I installed ChessBase 8 in Programs Files and then I
>>installed Fritz 8. I run Fritz 8 without any problems but then I decided to
>>change the engine to another one. And the system showed a huge memory leak. It
>>took around 10 minutes to unload Fritz and reload Junior. After that Junior
>>showed just 0-3 Kn/s and I desperately couldn’t find any solution. I decided to
>>go to ChessBase server and upgrade CB8 to its latest version , which is one year
>>old. But I couldn’t do it because the program stated that my CB8 is up-to-date
>>!? I registered to ChessBase server and tried to update Fritz-8, but I also
>>received the same message that the program was fine. How can, if I made a fresh
>>install and Frits is 1 year old and Ch8 is probably 2 year old ?!
>>
>>Can anyone point to my mistake and how to avoid memory leak ?
>>
>>Thank you very much,
>>
>>Regards,
>>Anatoli Sirota



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