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Subject: Re: Memory allocation anomaly.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:07:15 03/17/05

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On March 17, 2005 at 14:47:24, Matthew Hull wrote:

>I have two vanilla builds of GNUChess 5.07.  One is in CYGWIN, the other in
>Linux.  Both are on x86 architecture.  But each allocates hash memory in
>different volumes.
>
>Example command:
>
>./gnuchess -s 10000000
>
>On Cygwin, this allocates 393216K of hash memory.
>
>On Linux, it allocates 327680K
>
>What is the reason for this?

Several possibilities.  But first, have you started both programs without the -s
option to see how big they are, then restarted both with the -s to see the
difference?




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