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Subject: Re: Question regarding the use of RAM for EGTB's

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:14:50 05/27/04

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On May 27, 2004 at 21:57:32, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On May 27, 2004 at 14:50:01, Milton Zucker wrote:
>
>>From time to time I see lots of posts here regarding the use RAM for hash
>>tables; but seldom any discussion of use of RAM for EGTBs.  Is there a
>>rule-of-thumb for what percentage of RAM should be allocated to EGTBs?  I don't
>>believe SSDF even reports how much RAM its computers use for this purpose.  Is
>>this because it doesn't matter much?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Milton
>
>8MB of cache for Ram seems to work fine.  I do not see better performace with a
>larger cache.  YMMV.


I run with 32mb-64mb myself, but then I have a bunch of 6 piece files on my
box...




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