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Subject: Re: Tablebases on 2 Hard Disks??

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:05:09 11/07/05

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On November 07, 2005 at 06:30:35, Per Jørgensen wrote:

>Hi Chesscomputerfans!
>
>I seriously consider to buy an AMD Dual Core CPU in order to be able to arrange
>Enginematches with Pondern ON. I got a good advice here in the Forum; buy a
>second Hard Disk and copy the TB's on this one so that you have 2 paths to the
>TB's located on two different Hard Disks. I do my testing in the Shredder 9
>surface and I can see that I can add up to 4 paths to the location of the TB's.
>No problem. Here comes my question: How do I exactly tell an engine (it could be
>Fruit 2.2.1, Shredder 9, Fritz 9 or anyone else who supports TB's) that it
>should use path 1 and told the opponentengine to use path 2??
>
>I hope someone can help me :-)
>
>Best regards
>Per


Why would you want to do that?  If one is probing the other will be probing the
_same_ tables.  Operating system filesystem cache will speed up both by doing
just one I/O...

bad idea...



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