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Subject: Re: Important about some chess engines under Win98

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 22:18:06 02/20/04

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On February 20, 2004 at 12:01:24, Sedat wrote:

>>
>>I believe your conclusions are wrong.  If the hash table is not in real memory,
>>it is in virtual memory.  No way you can get 100% cpu utilization with a lot of
>>swapping/paging going on.
>>
>>Maybe the number you are looking at doesn't mean what you think it means?
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Ok -so if it is in virtual memory,how we can be  sure that is correct or not ?


watch the disk light while a search is in progress.  If it is on a lot, that's
bad news...  An occasional blink might just be a write to a log file, but on
brightly means too much I/O, which has to be paging.



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