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Subject: Re: Hard disk thrashing with Shredder9

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 02:16:27 05/22/05

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On May 21, 2005 at 19:28:17, Komputer Korner wrote:

>It has been said many times before. Don't accept the situation whereby the
>engine calculating causes the hard disk to access when the OS uses hard disk
>space as part of RAM. There is more than 1 cause for this. If you have another
>program running at the same time as Shredder9 and then close the other program
>Shredder9 may not have enough RAM for its hash table and thus the hard disk is
>accessed.If you don't fix the hard disk thrashing, you will notice that
>Shredder calculates at a snail's pace compared to accessing only RAM for it's
>hash tables.
>                             Everyone by now knows all this, but instead of
>adjusting the hash table size to quiet down the hard disk accessing, simply shut
>Shredder9 down and restart. The hard disk thrashing will stop. Don't worry, the
>board position and moves are always saved.

YOU do foolish things with your machine...why do you give your programs
more hash than physically available? Better buy a second machine for analysis,
if you can't decide what you want to do.

Guenther



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