Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:16:12 04/12/05
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On April 12, 2005 at 04:38:21, Christopher Conkie wrote: >Hello, > >I wanted to know if when at a tournament any of those here who have been used >their own computer. > >The reason why I asked is because I want to know if anyone who did this used a >computer with two physical hard drives. One which stored the operating system >and the other for the paging file. > >I see alot of 64 Bit Systems, Dual/Multi Processor Systems but wondered if doing >things like moving the paging file, setting how the computer deals with memory >etc had any significant effect on the speed of engine's calculations. > >In other words, what are the things that you would do to speed up computer's and >therefore engine performance. > >It stikes me that this could be quite important if done well. > >Regards > >Christopher simple question. Answer: "DO NOT PAGE". To do so will kill an engine, even with the fastest 15K U320 SCSI drives. Just make sure things fit in RAM.
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