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Subject: TBs and Winboard matches?

Author: Inmann Werner

Date: 15:50:12 08/06/99

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On August 06, 1999 at 14:00:26, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>
>>
>>>Question:
>>>Most of the stuff is for Locks and caching.
>>>Can there be problems, if in Winboard on one Computer, both use the TBs. Do they
>>>both get Caches or is it possible, the programs run out of Files, or "the winner
>>>takes it all"?
>>>Also, if one uses the TBs in the search, will the search slow down dramatically
>>>cause of the disk hits? Any experiences with it?
>>>
>>>Werner
>
>If program cannot open the TB file, it'll close all open TBs and then try again.
>So it must handle the case when limit on the # of open files is less than # of
>TBs. But I don't know what will happen with two programs on the same machine - I
>suspect that really "the winner will take it all". But if he'll try to open new
>TB, and it'll fail, he'll close all his TBs, too. So maybe there will be some
>form of a balance, with both programs sometimes unavailable to access some TBs.
>
>If you are using Windows, install NT.
>
>Eugene
>
I am interested, what the Winboard testers will say. Most use Win95 and make
their engine-engine tournaments.
Will anybody test this?

Werner

Besides, my program does not work with NT. :(



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