So it is logical that Scid reports an engine crash. I don't see what I could
do there.
Pascal
2009/5/15 Roy Brunjes <roy_brun...@yahoo.com>
> When this happens, wine and Rybka-3 are both NOT running any longer. (ps
> -ef | grep -i wine and grep -i rybka show nothing).
>
> Roy
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Pascal Georges <pascal.georg...@free.fr>
> *To:* Roy Brunjes <roy_brun...@yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Sent:* Friday, May 15, 2009 9:22:54 AM
> *Subject:* Re: Re : [Scid-users] SCID 3.7.4 bug suspected
>
> Maybe another problem with Rybka + (micro)wine on 64 bit.
> Does the process Wine+Rybka is still alive when Scid reports the engine
> crash ?
>
> Pascal
>
> 2009/5/15 Roy Brunjes <roy_brun...@yahoo.com>
>
>> Pascal,
>>
>> I use Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04 (both 64-bit) on several systems and the result
>> is the same. The crash happens within 1 second of launching (maybe less).
>> There definitely is not a 3 to 5 second pause -- it happens much sooner than
>> that.
>>
>> What values should I try to raise? I'm not familiar with SCID's source and
>> I'm not a C programmer (though I've programmed in many other languages 25
>> years ago).
>>
>> Roy
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Pascal Georges <pascal.georg...@free.fr>
>> *To:* Roy Brunjes <roy_brun...@yahoo.com>
>> *Cc:* scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>> *Sent:* Friday, May 15, 2009 12:37:07 AM
>> *Subject:* Re : [Scid-users] SCID 3.7.4 bug suspected
>>
>> Engine crash is detected after a certain time without any response
>> (values usually between 3 and 5 sec when a reply is expected). I tried
>> changing this parameter (Contempt Analyze) under windows XP and Linux
>> (with Wine) and it works for me. Maybe you could dig in Scid's code
>> and raise some values to see if it solves the problem ?
>>
>> Pascal
>>
>> 2009/5/14, Roy Brunjes <roy_brun...@yahoo.com>:
>> > I run Rybka-3 under SCID and have for a long time now - both 64-bit and
>> > 32-bit versions of Rybka-3. The problem described below has existed for
>> many
>> > releases now (certainly the 3.7 official release included this problem).
>> I
>> > run 3.7.4 now and the problem still persists.
>> >
>> > If I attempt to edit the UCI engine properties for Rybka-3 in this way:
>> >
>> > set Contempt Analyze to 25 (default is zero and left as default,
>> things
>> > work fine)
>> >
>> > When I attempt to use the newly modified engine I get an error saying it
>> > probably crashed. Given that this capability works with Rybka-3 under
>> other
>> > GUIs, I doubt it is a Rybka-3 bug.
>> >
>> > Here is the section of engines.dat before the edit (where it runs fine)
>> and
>> > after the edit (where it crashes):
>> >
>> > Before:
>> >
>> > engine {
>> > Name Rybka-3-32bit-1CPU
>> > Cmd wine
>> > Args /home/roy/chess/rybka-3/rybka3-1cpu.w32.exe
>> > Dir /home/roy/chess/rybka-3
>> > Elo 3052
>> > Time 1242178741
>> > URL {}
>> > UCI 1
>> > UCIoptions {{Hash 64} {MultiPV 1} {UCI_LimitStrength false} {UCI_Elo
>> 1200}
>> > {{Max CPUs} 1} {NalimovPath <empty>} {NalimovCache 1} {NalimovUsage
>> Rarely}
>> > {{Preserve Analysis} false} {{Clear Hash} {}} {{Saved Hash File}
>> <empty>}
>> > {{Save Hash} {}} {{Load Hash} {}} {{Persistent Hash Enabled} false}
>> > {{Persistent Hash File} <empty>} {{Persistent Hash Play Depth} 64}
>> > {{Persistent Hash Write Depth} 10} {{Persistent Hash Size} 16}
>> {{Persistent
>> > Hash Reset} {}} {{Persistent Hash Resize} {}} {{Persistent Hash Merge
>> File}
>> > <empty>} {{Persistent Hash Do Merge} {}} {MultiPV_cp 32768} {{Contempt
>> Play}
>> > 15} {{Contempt Analyze} 0} {{Time Buffer} 0}}
>> > }
>> >
>> >
>> > After:
>> >
>> > engine {
>> > Name Rybka-3-32bit-1CPU
>> > Cmd wine
>> > Args /home/roy/chess/rybka-3/rybka3-1cpu.w32.exe
>> > Dir /home/roy/chess/rybka-3
>> > Elo 3052
>> > Time 1242178741
>> > URL {}
>> > UCI 1
>> > UCIoptions {{Hash 64} {MultiPV 1} {UCI_LimitStrength false} {UCI_Elo
>> 1200}
>> > {{Max CPUs} 1} {NalimovPath <empty>} {NalimovCache 1} {NalimovUsage
>> Rarely}
>> > {{Preserve Analysis} false} {{Clear Hash} {}} {{Saved Hash File}
>> <empty>}
>> > {{Save Hash} {}} {{Load Hash} {}} {{Persistent Hash Enabled} false}
>> > {{Persistent Hash File} <empty>} {{Persistent Hash Play Depth} 64}
>> > {{Persistent Hash Write Depth} 10} {{Persistent Hash Size} 16}
>> {{Persistent
>> > Hash Reset} {}} {{Persistent Hash Resize} {}} {{Persistent Hash Merge
>> File}
>> > <empty>} {{Persistent Hash Do Merge} {}} {MultiPV_cp 32768} {{Contempt
>> Play}
>> > 15} {{Contempt Analyze} 25} {{Time Buffer} 0}}
>> > }
>> >
>> > Can someone see where the problem might be?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Roy
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
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