Author: Mathieu Pagé
Date: 07:20:43 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 Hi Christopher, When you run a chess program on a computer (or any other cpu intesive task) The fastest way to handle disk cache is to not use disk cache at all. You must have enough RAM to run the task completly in memory (including hash table, of course) So, when playing chess the page file is not used much nor is the OS reading any significant amout of files. So, I do not think you would see any significant speed up. Mathieu Pagé
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