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Subject: Re: Chessbase engine tournaments with large hash tables

Author: Rick Hagen

Date: 13:23:18 10/23/05

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On October 23, 2005 at 15:07:42, Mike Hood wrote:

>On October 23, 2005 at 13:34:05, Ray Banks wrote:
>

[...]
>
>When trying to observe this phenomenon I had the Windows Task Manager on top of
>the Fritz 9 window, which probably provoked the problem, making it happen more
>often. This is bad, nevertheless, because it's quite feasible that I might want
>to answer emails while running an engine tournament. But the principle that
>Windows might decide to swap out Fritz 9's hash tables just because I haven't
>typed anything for an hour or longer is awful. What sort of an operating system
>is this anyway? Let's hope the next Windows XP upgrade fixes this bug.
>
>Are you sure there isn't a system tweak of some sort to prevent this happening?

Hi Mike,

Since you've visited some tweaking sites already, the following might be old
news. (or just plain useless.)

Go to proporties of "my computer" -> advanced -> performance (i'm checking the
dutch version now.. i just translate from "prestaties") -> settings advanced ->
CPU usage:
Make sure both cpu-usage and memory usage are checked at programs, not
backgroundservice.

And having a fixed swap file instead of a dynamic swap file might be of help
also.

And finally, turn of any services you don't need.
-> start -> run -> type: services.msc
Better do do a search on some of those tweak sites which services you don't
need, I don't want to be resposible for messing up your system...

Sorry in advance if this was all old news to you, Mike

Best of luck,
Rick







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