Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:57:11 02/03/05
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On February 03, 2005 at 13:37:09, Peter Skinner wrote: >On February 03, 2005 at 11:47:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Nor do you know anyone that said someone did. That's your lack of reading >>comprehension, not anything else. who exactly said someone uses "all" of them? > >I have used them all at one point, but just like you I have run out of hard >drive space in my beast. Now all total I use 523.71gb of tablebases when playing >online. I use Hiarcs and Crafty, and I believe those are the only two that >support 6man bases at this time. > >The start up time for each program is considerable. In fact just last night I >saw a position where Hiarcs thought it was up +2.35 then the 6man tbs clicked in >and suddenly it found a mate in 42 moves. I will find the exact game and >position and post it here. > >>>In fact i don't even know anyone who has them all besides you. But well, you >>>don't even know how to back them up seemingly :) > >I have them all. Either on my hard drives, or backed up on DVD. I do have them >all though. Just ask my provider who cried over the bandwidth I used :) > >I downloaded roughly 10.5GB nightly until I had them all. Depending on the ftp's >speed, I seen a high of downloading 38.94GB in one night. > >Peter For the record, crafty takes about 25 seconds to "start up" on my dual xeon, with nearly 600 gigs of "stuff" in the TB folder. About 500 gigs is on 146gig 10K U320 scsi drives, the rest is on 36gig 15K U320 scsi drives. I have 3x146 in raid-0 (striping for performance) and 3x36 in raid-0 as well.. I don't consider that unacceptable...
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