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Subject: Re: Important about some chess engines under Win98

Author: Olivier Deville

Date: 00:47:28 02/21/04

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On February 21, 2004 at 02:43:28, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>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

Thanks for the good news :)

Olivier



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