Author: Mark Ryan
Date: 14:58:26 08/09/99
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On August 09, 1999 at 16:51:02, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >You are absolutely right. The booklet says to prevent hash tables becoming full >too early by longer calculating time. So yes indeed it's a minimum. > >That minimum hash proposed is under "levels" ëngine resarch" "system >information" > >While I still had 128Mb it proposed over 100Mb, but that wouldn't shut up my >hard disk - too big. >Now I have 256 Mb and it proposes 128Mb as a minimum. And that's what it gets >:-) Most of the time (physical memory / 2 ) is a good max hash setting, I found >out. In engine-engine that (pm/4). > >Jeroen;-} When doing engine-engine, would it be okay to turn "Permanent Brain" off, and then set hash size to ( physical memory / 2 ) ? Would the two engines be more effective that way, with a larger hash size to work with on their own turn (but not calculating speculatively during the other engine's turn) ? Mark
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