Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 12:37:21 06/29/05
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On June 29, 2005 at 14:18:28, Mark Young wrote: >I don't know how much you will running chess programs, but here is some advice. > >For the Tablebases. Buy another smaller, but faster harddrive. I run chess >programs 24/7. It is not fun when you blowout your only harddrive, because of >the constent crunching of the tablebases. It is very hard on the harddrive...:) One thing I found that will help is increasing your EGTB cache to 256mb. It helps a LOT with the 3-4-5 piece EGTBs. With 16mb cache Shredder 9 was going ~200kn/s (much hard drive accessing). I increased it to 256mb and started analyzing the position again. After the few seconds of loading EGTBs into memory initially the hard drive was quiet and the NPS shot up to ~1.1 million. During a game it will slowly load the EGTBs into the large cache as it moves towards the endgame (keeping NPS high) instead of doing it all at once when starting to analyze a fresh endgame position. Helped me quite a bit.
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