Author: Albert Bertilsson
Date: 02:28:30 03/09/04
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I'd just like to make one thing clear, the "churning" of the harddrive(s) is there because of the usage of tablebases. There is nothing that can solve this, having larger cache for tablebases help very little because the tablebases are so huge and you computer search very fast. Using faster drives (like scsi) will increase performance because of faster tablebase access times, but the drives will be working constantly at peek anyway. Turn of tablebases or get used to drive "churning", that is you options. Using tablesbases give you perfect solutions to some positions but the obvious trade of is nps, I guess that many systems don't benefit very much from tablebases due to the reduced search speed. If you get a lot of harddrive noise you could try mounting your drive in some rubber bands instead of directly in the chassi to reduce the noise a little. /Albert
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