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Article #4081Re: Paging while running GNU Chess
From: DJ Delorie
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 00:00
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In article <4gabse$71@netnews.upenn.edu> mankowsk@dolphin.upenn.edu (Walter Mankowski) writes: > I'm running Linux on an 80 Mhz 486 with 8 Megs of memory. Whenever I > try to run GNU Chess, I make it through about two moves, then my > machine pages like crazy. I have a hard time even stopping the > program, that's how slow my system gets. > > Is there anything I can tweak to improve my performance? Or does the > program just need more memory than I have? One of the things that I modified was the default transposition table size. I don't know how this affects performance or strength, but in the default configuration it was using 9 Mb of physical memory per instance (WebChess runs many instances). I cut it down to only a few Mb by reducing the ttblsz value in ttable.h (via the Makefile).
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,a27dc2f089e87d91 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public From: dj@delorie.com (DJ Delorie) Subject: Re: Paging while running GNU Chess Date: 1996/02/20 Message-ID: <DJ.96Feb20071526@delorie.com> X-Deja-AN: 140228400 x-nntp-posting-host: delorie.com references: <4gabse$71@netnews.upenn.edu> organization: DJ Delorie/DJGPP Support newsgroups: gnu.chess