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Subject: Re: How long to Generate KRPKQ with the Tablebase Generator ????????

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 11:59:12 06/08/04

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On June 08, 2004 at 01:09:35, Brian Katz wrote:

depends upon whose generator you use how fast you generate it.

it ranges from 10 minutes till a few days...

>I am using an AMD Athlon XP 2600+  with 1 Gig of DDR SDRAM.
>
>I have loaded the Convekta 9 Disc Set of Nalimov Tablebases. Some of the
>Tablebase 5 man Files are missing. I used the Tablebase Generator to Generate
>all of the missing files.
>I noticed that the KRPKQ was taking a very long time to complete.
>I cancelled, and chose to create the other remaining missing files first. This
>took a few days to complete, leaving the above mentioned endgame file for last.
>Although similar in size to some of the other files........KRPKQ takes forever
>to generate.
>
>I have been running this one file generation for over 48 hours. Other files,
>that were similar in size took over 4 hours, but not over 48.
>
>I have created the missing files in the past, but I do not remember if one file
>took this much time last time around with the same computer.
>
>Any info on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
>I had a copy on DVD of the Generated Tablebase files, but the copy disappeared.
>
>I will have extra copies this next time around.
>
>
>Thanks
>Brian



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