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Re: Help: xboard *very* slow

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From: Robert
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 11:23
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I've played around with this some more and can offer some more info 
which might help pinpoint the problem:

- 2 computers against each other gives the same result after a few moves
- the gnuchess process is consuming CPU time 
- I don't have a memory problem which could cause this slowdown due to swapping
- I've left if running for almost 25 minutes with no result. This seems to 
  indicate that something is fundmentally wrong.

thanks for any help
--> robert

PS: What influence does the size of a bookfile have on performace. Should 
I the 'huge' book file?

Robert (rgasch@nlps67) wrote:
: Hi,

: I've compiled gnuchess and xboard on a Intel 486/66 running SCO Unix 
: and built a 540K book file. When I start up the progam the frist 2 
: computer moves are made right away, but then the program just sits 
: there thinking (I stopped it after 15 minutes). Here is a transcipt 
: of the game:

: # xboard game file -- Tue Feb 21 10:14:04 1995
:        rgasch@nlps69.nl.oracle.com vs. gnuchessx@localhost
:         algebraic
: 1. e3  e5
: 2. Bc4  d5
: 3. Bb5

: Does anybody know what's wrong or have any suggestions how to alleviate 
: this problem?

: Thanks a lot
: --> robert
: rgasch@nl.oracle.com
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Subject: Re: Help: xboard *very* slow
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