Anyone having winboard problems with scid 3.6?

[Norm Pollock]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Norm Pollock at 01 March 2004 15:05:01:

Maybe just a coincidence, but with scid 3.6 active, I was getting some crashes of winboard engines and even crashes of Jori's tournament manager. I went back to scid 3.5 and things are stable.
Did anyone else experience this coincidence?

[Shane Hudson]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Shane Hudson at 02 March 2004 01:23:18:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Anyone having winboard problems with scid 3.6? geschrieben von: / posted by: Norm Pollock at 01 March 2004 15:05:01:

Maybe just a coincidence, but with scid 3.6 active, I was getting some crashes of winboard engines and even crashes of Jori's tournament manager. I went back to scid 3.5 and things are stable.
Did anyone else experience this coincidence?

Eh? Sounds weird to me. A lot of code changed for 3.6 but nothing changed in the interface with WinBoard engines. Scid 3.6 probably uses more memory than 3.5 since (1) I increased some limits and (2) I compiled 3.6 with Tcl/Tk 8.4 but (if I recall) I compiled 3.5 with the more compact Tcl/Tk 8.3. But why any of this should cause engines or other software to crash is beyond me.
Incidentally, a few small bugs have been found with all the code that changed for 3.6 so a bugfix release Scid 3.6.1 should be out in the next 24 hours.
Cheers,
Shane (author of Scid)



Scid website

[Norm Pollock]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Norm Pollock at 02 March 2004 12:56:21:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Re: Anyone having winboard problems with scid 3.6? geschrieben von: / posted by: Shane Hudson at 02 March 2004 01:23:18:

scid does not seem to be the problem causer.
Another new update that is the likely culpit is baron 1.20. With my settings, its expands from 117M to 126M during a game and sometimes stays in memory after finishing. I also have to take it out of action to see if the crashes stop.