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Subject: Re: Hard disk thrashing with Shredder9

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 07:21:47 05/22/05

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On May 22, 2005 at 05:16:27, Günther Simon 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 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


I don't do foolish things with my machine. The hash table was automatically set
by Shredder9 in the 1st place.I am describing an optimum technique to overcome a
unique problem that Shredder9 has sometimes.



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