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Subject: Re: Shredder9 in CB problem (also follow-up to 'grinding' post from before)

Author: Ernst Walet

Date: 03:54:25 04/21/05

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On April 21, 2005 at 01:20:47, Peter Stayne wrote:

>I was analyzing the 'Something to grind on' position from a thread below (the
>resulting analysis follows this question), and left it for an hour and a half.
>at around the 1:15 mark, the kn/s dropped from an average of 1200 to 46 and
>stayed pegged at that. I checked task manager and the cpu charts, which are
>usually pegged at 100% were shooting erratically up and down, with no other
>processes eating up any significant cpu time.
>
>Perhaps I simply exhausted my hash? (1024MB hash out of 2048MB RAM), maybe
>Windows was starting to page the search out to VM on the disk?
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Interesting that, very late in the game, DS9 chose b4!
>
>Pete
>

What I missed when I first reacted on your post (it was still night here an more
in my head lol) is that your cpu's where not at 100% anymore. Did you notice
Windows swapping? (heavy disk access) What TBs do you use and on what kind of
disk are they placed?

Kind regards,
Ernst.



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