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Subject: Re: Important about some chess engines under Win98

Author: Olivier Deville

Date: 11:36:20 02/20/04

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On February 20, 2004 at 13:46:57, Günther Simon wrote:

>On February 20, 2004 at 05:48:40, Sedat wrote:
>
>>
>>I made a test about some engines with TaskInfo2002 4.0 on  Win98.
>>I wanted to increase the hashsize to 128 mb hash of these engines but what a
>>pity  that they did not go  more than 2 mb:
>>
>>-Sos 4 For Arena
>>-Genius 7
>>-DeepSjeng 1.5-not more than 16mb
>>
>>For Example -Sos 4 for Arena by TaskInfo2002 4.0 under win98:
>>
>>|Process|                |% CPU| |LT % CPU|  |Time| |Sw/s| |InMem KB|
>>
>>+ SOS-4_Arena.exe        100,00%     72,04%    0:34     42    2.588
>>
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>But under Windows XP Professional:
>>
>>-There is no any problem with the  hashtable of these engines and any hashtable
>>its possible to increase ...
>>
>>For Example -Sos 4 for Arena by TaskInfo2002 4.0 under XP:
>>
>>|Process|                |% CPU| |LT % CPU|  |Time| |Sw/s| |InMem KB|
>>
>>+ SOS-4_Arena.exe        100,00%     72,04%    0:34     42    134.444
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>So for ComputerChess is better Windows XP Professional !!!
>>
>>Regards,
>>Sedat
>
>I believe its just a display problem of TaskInfo under WIN98 and I noticed
>the same behaviour for a few programs (in fact I only remember DeepPatzer
>right now, but there were a few more...).
>You can verify the real used hash size by watching the column of free
>physical memory, before and after loading the specified program.
>
>Regards,
>Günther

I hope you are right, Günther... I would prefer to keep Win98 on this machine.

BTW Gothmog is to be added to the list, maybe because it was designed for the
Mac.

Olivier



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