[TA]BlackMountainCow 2004-03-03 02:04:52 | Hey! I was wondering if the size of the results.dat file at any point in time is becoming a disadvantage? Cause mine is around 5 MB (ca. 5000 results) by now. And one of our very new members just kicked into DPAD and made a shot for #3 in the total transfer stats without any results.dat of course. So would u say that after a certain time one should delete the results.dat file and start all over again with a fresh DPAD or doesn't it matter at all? Thx Christian |
Stephen Brooks 2004-03-03 06:41:54 | My results.dat is about 11MB in size. If you get rid of it and the program goes from the downloaded "sample" results only, you probably have a higher chance of emulating one of the already-high results, but perhaps less chance of coming up with something new. With a larger file it does choose from a longer pool so sometimes more often from the lower results, but it has more data to learn from so in the long run a larger .dat ought to be better. By 2050 the UK government plans to phase out nuclear power and get 60% of its power from wind turbines. Really, REALLY big wind turbines. |
[TA]BlackMountainCow 2004-03-03 07:05:09 | Ok thx. I gonna keep my results.dat then |
Cameron 2004-03-05 04:33:30 | Along the same vein does the size of results.txt effect the performance significantly I have a feeling as I increase the file size past 100K the results sometimes seem to stagnate or even decline. does this actully happen |
[TA]BlackMountainCow 2004-03-05 05:16:27 | @Ormac I don't think that the results.txt file has any impact on the performance. I mean, it's only a file where the results are written in and afterwards it's not read anymore. It's not used for any calculations at all, just a storage file. I onl ydump once a week and usually my results.txt is about 700k to 1 MB then and I never noticed any decline. Cheers Christian |
Cameron 2004-03-07 04:51:34 | Thanks for the info I send my file in every 120KB or so I thought I'd ask what other users had observed with their txt files I guess it's just me thinking it advances slowly at times |