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Subject: Re: Hard disk thrashing with Shredder9

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 09:08:32 05/22/05

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On May 22, 2005 at 10:21:47, Komputer Korner wrote:

>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.

What you are describing if I understand, is what you consider to be long
disc accessing time when first starting up.
Chessbase 9 is a much more sophisticated Program than Chessbase 7.
Shredder 9 is a much more sophisticated Program than Fritz 5.32

It takes them a lot longer to fully Load!
Especially if you have writtten the Player Encyclopedia and EGTB's to your
Hard drive.
This is not a Unique Problem!
 It is not a problem.
It's the normal time it takes to load all the information.
Go grab a beer and wait it out.



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