Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 13:28:35 05/05/04
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On May 05, 2004 at 11:56:21, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 05, 2004 at 09:29:19, Brian Kostick wrote: > >>On May 05, 2004 at 09:14:50, Mike Hood wrote: >> >>>On May 05, 2004 at 08:12:44, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>> >>>>On May 05, 2004 at 07:47:57, Mike Hood wrote: >>>> >>>>>I just let Filemon run while loading Fritz 8 to see why it takes so long. I was >>>>>shocked to see that during the initialisation Fritz tries to open every possible >>>>>tablebase. For instance... >>>>> >>>>>Open kpk.nbw.emd -- good, it's there >>>>>Open kpknbw.emd -- file not found >>>>>Open kpk_nbw.emd -- file not found >>>>>Open kpk_nbw_emd -- file not found (I never knew this format was valid) >>>>>Open kpk.nbw -- file not found >>>>> >>>>>And the same five accesses for the nbb file. >>>>> >>>>>Why carry on with the other three after finding the first tablebase? But it gets >>>>>even wilder when it comes to the 6-piece tablebases. All 365 possible tablebase >>>>>pairs in all possible formats are accessed, even though I don't have any on my >>>>>disk. Thousands of "file not found" results. Just one example, to show how >>>>>ludicrous it is: >>>>> >>>>>First Fritz tries to open krbnkp.nbw.emd, krbnkpnbw.emd, krbnkp_nbw.emd and >>>>>krbnkp.nbw.emd. Almost the same as before, except Fritz is assuming 6-piece >>>>>tablebases are compressed. But then Fritz tries to open krbnkp.0.nbw.emd, >>>>>krbnkp.0_nbw.emd, krbnkp.0nbw.emd and krbnkp.0_nbw_emd. Then krbnkp.1.nbw.emd, >>>>>etc... and krbnkp.2.nbw.emd... and all the way through to krbnkp.g.nbw.emd. That >>>>>means 136 disk accesses for a tablebase that I don't have! And that's only one >>>>>tablebase out of 365. >>>>> >>>>>Wouldn't it be much easier just to scan the tablebase directory and only open >>>>>the files that actually exist? >>>> >>>>Both nalimov and i do this in a similar way. >>>> >>>>If you are willing to write code for this that works faster and works both for >>>>windows and *nix, then i will be real happy to use it. >>>> >>>>Best Regards, >>>>Vincent >>> >>>Thanks for the info, Vincent. I assumed the initialization code had been written >>>by Chessbase, not by Eugene. >>> >>>My math was a bit off in my original post, but after looking at Filemon's log I >>>can give the exact figure: Fritz attempts to access 33647 non-existent tablebase >>>files. And please... you can't tell me that if the file krbnkp.0.nbw.emd doesn't >>>exist it still makes sense to look for krbnkp.1.nbw.emd, krbnkp.2.nbw.emd, etc >>>all the way to krbnkp.g.nbw.emd. That's a waste of processor time on any >>>operating system. >> >> >>Could you report the time from the first tb until the last? I know it will >>change from system to system but curious just to know how long it takes there. >>BK > > >About 10 seconds on my box with about 1/2 terabyte of egtbs in use, maybe a tad >less than 1/2 terabyte.. About 3 hours for a 512 processor supercomputer though with 512GB ram and 1 TB i/o.
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