Author: Günther Simon
Date: 13:50:34 10/23/05
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On October 23, 2005 at 05:50:02, Ray Banks wrote: >On October 23, 2005 at 01:54:26, Majd Al-Ansari wrote: > >>Amazing that you should mention that. I just had the same thing happen to me >>too last night on my laptop. It has 1GB RAM and I had set a tournament with >>Shredder and Fruit at long time control and at 512mb RAM. My drive started >>churning endlessly. So I stopped the tournament and restarted it with only >>256mb hash with no problems. I had done ONLY one thing different last night and >>that was to update my GUI8 to the latest one. > >Do I understand that right - you set 512MB hash for each engine, and you only >have 1GB total RAM ? You'd expect the drive to churn endlessly there (2*512MB = >1GB i.e. your total RAM just on the hash) Exactly, why on earth would someone setup engines using more than available pyhsical Ram? This is the worst one can do with chess programs matching each other. Guenther
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