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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:41:23 08/27/05

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On August 27, 2005 at 16:04:40, Roy Brunjes wrote:

>On August 27, 2005 at 14:13:08, Robert Hyatt 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
>>
>>
>>Yes.  This is my fault.  For linux, I use shmget() to allocate dynamic memory,
>>so that I can share the stuff on a multiple-cpu machine.
>>
>>Unfortunately, linux has a very small shmmax (max shared memory segment size) by
>>default.
>>
>>As root, do this:
>>
>>echo "1000000000" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
>>
>>and you will be set.  I had a test for shmget() failing, and it would produce a
>>message telling you to do the above.  But somewhere along the way that message
>>got lost.  I'll fix 20.0 and re-do the source files to avoid failing without any
>>warning...
>
>As usual, Bob is exactly on the money here. Many thanks!  I will download the
>updated V20.0 when it is ready.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Roy


Done.  But note, it will just complain, tell you how to fix it, and then exit
until you do. :)




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