Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 04:06:35 05/22/05
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On May 22, 2005 at 05:44:05, Andreas Schwartmann wrote:
>On May 22, 2005 at 05:24:25, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>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
>>
>> If chess is taken seriously it is not allowed to
>> run another program at the same time -:)
>> Kurt
>
>
>Kurt, I usually have several programs running in the background, when using
>chess engines: resident Antivirus scanner, ISDN monitor, bluetooth stack. These
>proggies never steal more than 1-2% of cpu time, so I don't see any problem with
>them remaining resident in memory.
>
>Of course running a full virus scan while playing engine matches is not really
>helpful. ;-)
>
>Andreas
Hi Andreas
In that case an engine match should not suffer much.
On my chess PC's I have no access to the Internet and
email nor are any antivirus programs installed or other
programs running in the background.
Kurt
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