Re: Paging while running GNU Chess

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From: Ming Of Mongo
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 00:00

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Walter Mankowski wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> Walt

As far as I can tell, Gnuchess just plain doesn't like linux
yet.  I have done everything I can to make it go.  Some older
versions seem to work better than others, I guess because they
are less complex than others.  On rare occasions I have played
an entire game on an old version that installed with my
slackware release, but that may be on account of my bad
playing making for a short game...  But seriously folks...
I am current ly using some windows chess programs under wine,
the windows emulator for X11.

If anyone can fix this, I'd love to hear about it too.

-Ron

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