On Thu 20 Nov 2003 (17:32 -0800), Ned Cross wrote:
> I don't know if it's relevant or not, but I have noticed using win32 on
> win2000 that there will periodically be periods of time while gnubg is
> crunching a lot of stuff to the hard disk, and during that time CPU usage
> goes way down. I am using the large bearoff db's so I understand there
> should be times in a race position that there should be calls to disk, but
> I've been surprised to see this activity in mid-game positions. I've got
> plenty of free ram according to task manager.
Does Win2k have limits on the amount of RAM an individual program is
allowed to use? It sounds like gnubg is swapping memory out to
disk. I don't know enough about Windows OSes to know if you need to
tell it how much RAM or disc space a program is allowed to use -
certainly such limits are available and often used in Unix.