Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:55:42 02/03/05
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On February 03, 2005 at 14:36:33, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >On February 03, 2005 at 13:57:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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... > >You probably should re-think which TBs you should use now, when you got new TBs. >On the last disk I sent you there are some TBs that I believe are more useful >than ones that you currently use -- kpppkp (and kxppky in general), krpkrp, etc. > >Thanks, >Eugene I have done (and am doing) just that. Never fear. :)
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