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Subject: Re: re the hard drive chugging with TBs in Shredder 8

Author: Norm Pollock

Date: 07:04:48 10/10/04

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On October 10, 2004 at 09:46:50, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On October 10, 2004 at 06:46:13, William Penn wrote:
>
>>I did a little experimenting, and if I limit the TBs to generally those of 15 MB
>>or less, there isn't any serious hard drive chugging nor slowdown with Shredder
>>8. Otherwise it would wear out my hard drive quickly, I'm afraid, with the
>>constant very heavy access - as well as be much too slow in terms of nodes per
>>second. I don't have so much of a problem with Fritz or other engines in that
>>regard, just Shredder 8. Shredder 7 wasn't quite as bad.
>>WP
>
>I have found in setting the EGTB cache to 8MB seems to work very well in Crafty
>-- not sure about about Shredder.

You also don't need all the 5-man tbs. The ones that are obvious eg KQQQK can be
omitted. I use a subset that is 3G instead of the full 7G. I add to it whenever
I see the need for a particular 5-man ending.



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