Author: Ray Banks
Date: 11:26:50 11/07/05
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On November 07, 2005 at 08:44:04, Chuck wrote: >I think you will have some contention between the two engines unless you put the >tablebases on two hard drives on separate disk controllers. This would minimize >the contention as much as I can imagine, but won't eliminate it completely. The >engine not on move would thus interfere with the engine to move. Better to use >two separate computers IMO, but personally, I don't see what's wrong with >running ponder off matches. You want to know the strength of the engines and it >seems to me that ponder off will give you a pretty reliable result. > >Cheers, > >Chuck I've run thosands of ponder-on games with tablebases in a single location, and haven't noticed anything unsusual. But I don't know exactly what to look for that would constitute a problem. Sure there will be some contention, but with fast hard drives today I just don't think it is a significant issue. One suggestion here was to use two hard disks in a raid configuration. That appears as a single disk but physicaly two, hopefully the tablebases would physically be spread across the 2 disks when you copied them on, thereby avoiding some of the access issues
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