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Subject: Re: Crafty 20.0 - Crash on startup - related to .craftyrc settings

Author: Roy Brunjes

Date: 09:28:18 08/27/05

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On August 27, 2005 at 12:15:35, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On August 27, 2005 at 11:43:15, Roy Brunjes wrote:
>
>>I downloaded and compiled Crafty 20.0 on my Fedora Core 4 Pentium 4 system (used
>>the default Makefile and just typed "make".
>>
>>When I run crafty and my .craftyrc file has the following in it:
>>
>>hash 256M
>>hashp 24M
>>cache 32M
>>show book
>>resign 6
>>log on
>># tbpath=/home/roy/chess/TBs
>># egtb
>>
>>When I run crafty I see this:
>>
>>[roy@localhost .crafty]$ ./crafty
>>found computer opening book file [./bookc.bin].
>>Segmentation fault
>>
>>If I delete the .craftyrc file, it works fine.  So, I started commenting out
>>lines in .craftyrc to see which line might be the problem. It turns out that the
>>first line (hash 256M) is the culprit. My system has 2 GB of RAM on it and there
>>is roughly 1.7GB free at the moment ...
>>
>>Any ideas on what might be causing this? I would like to run crafty with more
>>RAM used for hashtables than whatever the defaults might be.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Roy
>
>please add the line "exit" and then a return..
>===========================================
>hash 256M
>hashp 24M
>cache 32M
>show book
>resign 6
>log on
># tbpath=/home/roy/chess/TBs
># egtb
>exit
># blank  space here - hit the return after exit or just leave this line here
>=================================
>
>not sure if this will fix it, but give it a shot...

Thanks for the tip Mike, but it did not fix things.

V19.15 works just fine with this .craftyrc if that might suggest anything to
someone.

Roy



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