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Subject: Re: Why does Hiarcs 10 take soooo long to start?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 23:02:14 02/10/06

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On February 11, 2006 at 01:10:58, Mark Boylan wrote:

>On my machine (P4 3.4GHz Dual core, 2GB RAM) Hiarcs 10 always takes at least 2-3
>minutes to start the application (sometimes it seems longer). After that, it's
>fine. I don't have that problem with any other engine or interface. Deep
>Shredder 9 UCI starts almost instantly. I tried lowering the Hashtable size and
>tb cache to 64M & 1M respectively, but it didn't seem to help. I think it's the
>interface, not the engine. Anyone else notice this? Do Fritz 9 and Junior 9 take
>a long time to start?

I guess that Hiarcs 10 is loading EGTB files and the others are not.

Typically, that is what causes really long start-up.

The other possibility is hash tables set too large.



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