Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 16:15:18 06/17/99
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On June 17, 1999 at 18:41:09, Mark Young wrote: ... >I put 512MB of ram in my computer the max for my mother board. The TB generator >says it takes more memory then this to create the KQPKQ TB. Im I out of luck, or >will it still create the TB using disk memory? ... I generated 3+2 man TBs at several computers, no one had more than 512Mb of RAM. OS will use hard drive for its virtual memory, so process will be slightly slower, but not much. I'd recommend to install NT - there were reports about problems with Win9x. Also there were reports about hardware problems - generator stress memory/disk subsystem much more than any "normal" program. In later case slowing main memory (inserting extra wait states in setup) usually helped. Also, I'd recommend to use command-line verion of the generator - you can download it from Bob's site. On my machine it was slightly faster than one shipped with Hiarcs. You'll have to run compressor separately, but that's not high price for saving several extra hours. Also, you'll be able to verify resulting TB - and that is the usual way to find hardware problems mentioned above. Eugene P.S. If I'd know how popular generator will be, maybe I'd spend some time speeding it up, or reducing its memory consumption. Instead, I spent all my time squeezing TBs and polishing probing code, so generator itself was designed with one goal - produce those TBs at a machine that I had (fast and with a lot of RAM).
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