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Subject: Re: Questions for Thomas Gaksch--Toga II 1.1 Hash Table sizes

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 13:21:37 11/24/05

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On November 24, 2005 at 04:29:26, Andrey Popov wrote:

>On November 23, 2005 at 22:54:50, Stephen A. Boak wrote:
>
>>On November 23, 2005 at 22:49:47, George Speight wrote:
>>
>>>On November 23, 2005 at 22:46:51, George Speight wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Doesnt matter what the default hash size is, you can change it under chessbase
>>>>to suit your needs. Hope this helps.   George
>>>
>>>Change it the same way you do for Fritz and Shredder.
>>
>>But what is the limit in the engine itself?
>Default 16, min 4, max 1024 megabytes.
>
>>If I set it too high in Chessbase (beyond the engine limit), will it crash?
>No.
>However, if the hash size is higher than the remanent (free) RAM memory in your
>computer, the hard disk will be automatically used instead the memory.
>Thousands of disk read/write operations per second will slow down (==weaken) the
>engine very much.
Thank You!
That's a point I have been trying to make here for some time.



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