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Subject: Re: How should I handle this problem.....? Any help would be great!

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 03:31:18 08/21/05

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On August 21, 2005 at 05:47:18, Joseph Anthony Merolle wrote:

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>
>It seem that when running chess applications such as S9 uci and S9 CB there
>seems to be a leak of some kind. When playing a game my KNS seems to be running
>optimally however as the game goes on my KNS tanks dramatically. For example I
>can start off 400 kns hitting plys of 18 for about 5 moves or so then as the
>game goes on it tanks to 27kns with plys of  8-10. Some times it picks up again
>only to tank. I ran extensive diagnostics and nothing failed.  I also ran AVG
>virus protection nothing was found and there is no throttling with throttle
>watch. Is there a problem with my computer, my install or applications (Shredder
>9, Chessbase and UCI)?. Any help in correcting this problem/s would be must
>appreciated. Below is my system config.
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>Processor	Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz
>Processor Speed	1.56 GHz
>Memory (RAM)	256 MB
>Operating System	Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
>Operating System Version	5.1.2600
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>Regards
>
>Jospeh

I think your RAM is too low, WinXp already take all this 256 MB and more
(swapping on disk), I suggest you add 512 MB to your comp, you will see a great
speed gain everywhere.



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