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Subject: Re: Important about some chess engines under Win98

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 23:43:28 02/20/04

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On February 20, 2004 at 14:36:20, Olivier Deville wrote:

>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

     Hi Olivier
     Günther is right: I can confirm this. There is no need
     to change the OS.
     Kurt



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