Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 16:49:02 06/17/99
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On June 17, 1999 at 19:42:12, Mark Young wrote: >On June 17, 1999 at 19:15:18, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>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). > >That what patches are for...hint. :) "Don't touch if it's not broken".
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