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Subject: Re: PS

Author: Ray Banks

Date: 14:25:42 06/29/05

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On June 29, 2005 at 15:37:21, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>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.

Top tip, I have plenty of spare memory, I'll try that



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