Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 07:31:08 07/24/98
Go up one level in this thread
On July 24, 1998 at 09:28:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: >in any case, the "paging" should be a flurry as most people see when they ask >"Why does crafty take 10 secs to make the first book move, and then 0 seconds >for the next 20 on my win95 machine, while on your linux box it can make the >first 20 moves in 0 seconds?" Something is funny about Windows '95 in this regard. The first time I boot my program it just sits there for a very long time. It's not acting like the machine is thrashing or anything, I'm not getting a reduced node count and a lot of I/O, I'm getting *no* node count, it gets stuck during initialization, and if I am listening right I'm not hearing the disk going either. Ten seconds is about right. There is no reason why a machine would have to do this just because it's using virtual memory. Something else is going on. It is annoying but not fatally so. I don't experience this with other applications, so maybe it has to do with the profile of the average chess app -- huge initial memory allocation. bruce
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.