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mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann) writes:

>Your limited RAM is most likely the problem.  Early moves of the game
>are made from gnuchess's book and are therefore nearly instantaneous.
>Later moves require searching.  When compiled with the default
>options, gnuchess requires 11 to 12 MB of memory.  If you run it in
>only 8 MB, it is likely to thrash---that is, to waste most of its time
>waiting for the operating system to swap pages between real memory and
>the disk.

>The file doc/PORTING in the gnuchess distribution gives some
>information about how to build a version of gnuchess that uses less
>memory.

>	---Tim

the -DCACHE option is the problem. The static evaluation cache is huge.
(I noticed this when running two gnuchess copies on my 16Mb Linux notebook)

Tom