Thanks for the report. I will dig into it and provide a fix with the next version. I can't promise this week because I'm rather busy and I want to combine it with a fix for another bug I found in my own testing.
Regarding the nice logo: I adopted the design but changed the lettering a bit. It is actually very close to what I had in mind myself, so you must be a mind reader. Do you know who is the artist of the background blue/white chessboard? I like to know if this image can be used freely, otherwise I need to replace it with something else.
1.-Thanks for the report. I will dig into it and provide a fix with the next version. I can't promise this week because I'm rather busy and I want to combine it with a fix for another bug I found in my own testing.
2.-Regarding the nice logo: I adopted the design but changed the lettering a bit. It is actually very close to what I had in mind myself, so you must be a mind reader. Do you know who is the artist of the background blue/white chessboard? I like to know if this image can be used freely, otherwise I need to replace it with something else.
1.-Nice to hear that !
2.-The artist ? Nope ! The blue/white chessboard image comes from Susan Polgar chess blog:
Sylwy wrote:1.-Thanks for the report. I will dig into it and provide a fix with the next version. I can't promise this week because I'm rather busy and I want to combine it with a fix for another bug I found in my own testing.
I think I found the problem, or at least part of it: Arena (I tried 3.0 btw) wants to change the Hash table size to -1. This is not a valid value, because -1 is less than the minimum of 0. Next is that floyd misreads this value, and takes it for "unlimited". And then it tries to use as much memory as the system allows. Possibly in an attempt to punish Arena. I don't know a solution yet, but it can't be hard.
May I ask how much memory is in your computer? Because on mine (with win7) I see that the memory usage tops at 1029 MB. This is the largest that windows allows for a 32bit engine.
mvk wrote:
May I ask how much memory is in your computer?Because on mine (with win7) I see that the memory usage tops at 1029 MB. This is the largest that windows allows for a 32bit engine.
mvk wrote: I don't know a solution yet, but it can't be hard.
Apparently Arena initializes the 'max' parameter to 0xFFFFFFFF as default value, forgetting that it is a signed int, and not unsigned, so that it really would have had to be 0x3FFFFFFF, because the value it uses means -1 as signed in. When it later sets the hash value it limits it to the engine's max, and -1 is always smaller than what the user specified.
Work-around would be to run it under Polyglot, which apparently doesn't make this mistake.
If you want to cater to this Arena bug you can have Floyd specify an explicit max in the Hash options.
