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Subject: Re: Loading time of engines with SP2 question

Author: Ingo Bauer

Date: 02:36:52 10/01/04

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Hi

>It might be that Sp2 is heavier on the "move often used files to the outside of
>the harddisk for faster loading times" option during defragmentation.
>
>This option can actually fragment your disk since rather than having all tbs
>files of one folder close on the harddisk (  where they can be initialised in
>one run ) they might be scatterd around, split up in often used, mildly used and
>hardly used.
>
>BTW if you defragmentated your harddisk after installing SP2 for the first time
>( or since a long time) it might be unrelated to SP2.
>
>Redefragmentating your harddisk without the option could solve the problem.

I dont think that this is the reson but you could not know because i did not
give the nessesary facts.

The slow loading comp is only dedicated to chess. Prior to intall SP2 I made a
complete new HD-partinioning and format, install of WinXP, then SP2, THEN the
Tablebases (upto 5, in one piece), and then the remaining chess programms.
Defragmentation is done once a month (at least).

I am still searching. If I come to a conclusion I will report it (again -
everything is working fine, except it needs 25-30s to load an engine)

Thx anyhow
Ingo




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