Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:08:36 05/01/04
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On May 01, 2004 at 17:37:05, GeoffW wrote: >Hi > >I thought I might put my old PC to use calculating the 3-4-5 Piece Nalimov >Tablebases. I have started it off running a while ago, but just realised there >might be a problem. >When I get to calculate 5 Piece KPPKP for example would that need all of the >minor tables to be on disk at once ? Yes... >I was thinking I could calculate a bunch of 50 or so at a time, then compress >them to the *.emd format and then delete the uncompressed originals. Can the >generator program cope with the minor tables in compressed format ? If I recall, no. I think Eugene answered this at some point in the past.. >I suspect not, but that means I would need a huge amount of disk space to be >able to calculate KPPKP. Any clarification of this would be appreciated. Thanks > I think the 5's take 20+ gigs uncompressed. Not _that_ big... >Incidentally this Tbgen program makes a wonderful torture tester for your hard >drive, hope my disk even survives till I get to the pawn tables !! > You might be low on memory which will make it page a bunch, also... > Regards Geoff
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