Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 12:21:43 06/09/05
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On June 09, 2005 at 10:31:07, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >On June 09, 2005 at 03:32:47, Eran Karu wrote: > >>Sometimes my computer crashes apparently for no reason while either Shredder 9 >>UCI or Fritz 8 analyzes my games overnight. >> >>Does it happen to your computers? Is it a common problem? >> >>What causes a computer to crash during analyzing chess games? What are solutions >>please? >> >>Thanks, >>Eran Karu >> >>P.S. >>FYI: >>Pentium III 1000 >>256 MB RAM >>128 MB hashtable >>All permanent residents are removed from the taskbar >>Windows 2000 Pro SP4 > > > My experience is that you can't use 128 MB hashtables > without getting problems with a PC having a total > of 256 MB ram. Lower hashtable size to 64 MB and > crashes may vanish. Kurt, my experience is different! I used my old computer which only had 64 MB of RAM (and 8 MB of this was used for the onboard graphics controller) for weeks without crash. Just this week, I used my new notebook with 1 GB of RAM with analysis using 900 MB for hash. No crash - I would have been very dissapointed, when it crashed. A crash really is not acceptable - even in tight memory situations. Slowdown would of course be acceptable, when you use (slightly) too much memory. Annoying disk noise would be acceptable, too, in such a situation. But not a crash. Regards, Dieter
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