IWB wrote:- From that really slow HD it needs 210s to initialize (quite similar with all engines - 20min? Where does this come from?)
I've seen that number often. For example in this thread:
6-man tables, excluding 5-1 positions, 1.12TB. Recommended that you load the table onto a 2TB internal HD and that you have 16GB RAM loaded on your machine. (You need the RAM for initial table loading. It takes me about 20 minutes with that much.)
For some reason I never realized that additional ram helped so much with loading of the 6-man tablebases. 20 minutes to load the whole set is amazing! I have 4GB ram and it takes such a long time to load that I've never even tried to load more than about 500GB worth.
YOu quote the Rybka forum (?) with a thread form 2010!
Accidently I have 16 GB RAM but the Nalimoves need about 1.5GB for initialisation. But of course if you try that for an engine AND a GUI (maybe 2 Engines) it gets difficult after a while. Nonetheless it is exegragates very much.
IWB wrote:YOu quote the Rybka forum (?) with a thread form 2010!
Did much change?
I actually thought the 20 minute number was valid for 2005, but apparently it came from 2010.
It might be interesting to hear 6-men Nalimov initialisation time from other people.
About 2 minutes for me on a 16GB system, using HDD SATA 6Gb/S for all the 6-piece bases. But I intentionally optimized the drive to have all the bases unfragmented, in order (alphabetically by name, in the 4 folders), and on the fastest part of the platters. I copied them to a freshly formatted drive. The 5-piece Nalimov are on SSD.
I assume Nalimov loads in some kind of order, maybe it's not alphabetical, but that's how I ordered the files on the HDD. Not sure it that helps, or it's a placebo.
