Author: Martin Baumung
Date: 23:36:13 11/11/05
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On November 11, 2005 at 22:39:38, Michael Yee wrote: >On November 11, 2005 at 22:15:10, George Speight wrote: > >>On November 11, 2005 at 22:10:39, Michael Yee wrote: >> >>>On November 11, 2005 at 22:04:05, George Speight wrote: >>> >>>>On November 11, 2005 at 21:39:29, Michael Yee wrote: >>>> >>> >>>>>(2a) Start zappa. >>>>> >>>>>(2b) Look for the "zappa_log.txt" file in the same directory that has >>>>>"zappa.exe". >>>>> >>>>>(2c) verify that you have lines similar to: >>>>> >>>>>tablebase_init(): allocated 8388608 bytes for the tablebase cache. >>>>>tablebase_init(): searching for Nalimov tablebases at path "c:\games\chess\tb" >>>>>tablebase_init(): found TBs with up to 4 pieces. >>>>>tablebase_init(): TB indices & decompression using 1527kb of memory >>>>> >>>>>Michael >>>>Thansk, Michael. Glad to know about Pro Deo. No one told me that. On Zappa, in >>>>the lines in the config. file you are referring to, if the lines dont match what >>>>you say, I am supposed to change them to what you have in each line above. Am i >>>>correct. And no thoughts i guess on List 512. Thanks, George >>> >>>Hi George, >>> >>>Those lines aren't from the "zappa.ini" config file--they're from a file called >>>"zappa_log.txt" that gets created every time the engine is run. It records >>>things that zappa does when loading up, e.g., finding the opening book, >>>allocating memory for hash tables, finding tablebases, etc. >>> >>>In the example snippet above, it shows that it's looking for tablebases in a >>>certain path (that I specified in "zappa.ini"), and successfully finds them. >>> >>>Michael >>Thanks, Michael. Okay, ilook at the lines. Lets say some need to be changed. >>Where do i make the changes? Lastly, not able to help on List? Thanks, >>George > >Well, if something looks wrong in the log, it means something wasn't set up >correctly. (You can post it here if you're not sure.) Changing the log file >won't fix the problem, though. > >Here's an example. Suppose I set the TB path wrong in "zappa.ini" (e.g., to >c:\uhoh). Then the "zappa_log.txt" log file that gets created next time I run >zappa has: > >set_option(): tbcache = 8388608 (8M) >tablebase_init(): allocated 8388608 bytes for the tablebase cache. >tablebase_init(): searching for Nalimov tablebases at path "c:\uhoh" >tablebase_init(): found TBs with up to 0 pieces. >tablebase_init(): TB indices & decompression using 0kb of memory > >So it shows that zappa wasn't able to load the TBs. I would then have to correct >the problem in my "zappa.ini" file. > >I don't know too much about List. However, here are a couple tidbits. Leo's info >on his WBEC site says that List 4.61 didn't have TB support. On the other hand, >someone just posted that the new commercial loop list just added TB support. So >did an inbetween version 5.12 have TB support? I have no idea, but maybe someone >else might know. > >Michael List 5.12 does have TB support, however it doesn't display TB hits. Martin
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