Forum Archive : GNU Backgammon

Running rollouts in background From:   Bruce Address:   grnpuuc@earthlink.net Date:   27 April 2004 Subject:   Re: GNU-bg wishlist Forum:   GammOnLine I wish there was a way you could pause a rollout and then resume it from the point it left off. I run rollouts at work but sometimes have to abort them because my system is so slow. Bruce Doug Gitlin  writes: I'm using the panels version of GNU; when I want to do a rollout, I'll first analyze the move, select the moves I want to roll out, then hit the rollout button (below the analysis panel). A window will pop up showing the current status of the rollout. If you hit the "stop" button, the rollout will basically pause - you can start it up again by choosing the moves you want to rollout and hitting the rollout button again. In fact, if you do it this way, you can stop the rollout, save the match or session, and the rollout settings and results will be saved too. So, you can close GNU, re-open your match later, and continue the rollout where you left off (actually, only some of the settings are saved, including the ply of the rollout; others you'll have to reenter manually, including the number of trials). rew  writes: A good trick is to open the task manager (ctrl - alt - del) and right click on the gnubg.exe process and lower its priority. That way your system will respond more quickly to your other work. Doug Gitlin  writes: You can also do that from within GNU. There's an "enter command" item on one of the menus (the edit menu I think). A window will pop up, and you can type "set priority idle" which I think has the same effect. Jørn Thyssen  writes: If you want "set priority idle" to be persistent, you can add the command to a file named .gnubgrc placed in the same directory as the .gnubgautorc file. The .gnubgrc file is read after .gnubgautorc. Dean Gay  writes: I've found that the "set priority idle" command doesn't work quite as well as going into XP's task manager and setting the priority there. If I do it through XP, I'm able to run other applications without any noticeable slow down; if I do it through GNU, I do still notice some slow down.   Did you find the information in this article useful?           Do you have any comments you'd like to add?

 

GNU Backgammon

Analyzing GamesGrid matches  (Roy Passfield, Dec 2001) 

Batch analysis tool  (Øystein Johansen, June 2004) 

Cache size  (Ned Cross+, Mar 2004) 

Compiling for Windows  (Øystein Johansen, Jan 2002) 

Edit mode removing checker from bar  (Scott Steiner+, May 2003) 

Entering an annotated match  (Albert Silver, Dec 2003) 

Error rates: Gnu vs. Snowie  (Raccoon, Mar 2006) 

Even-ply/odd-ply effect  (Raccoon, Nov 2004) 

Even-ply/odd-ply effect  (Tom Keith+, Oct 2003) 

Even-ply/odd-ply effect  (Scott Steiner+, Dec 2002) 

Filter settings  (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen, Nov 2004) 

Gnu 0.13 versus Jellyfish and Snowie  (Torsten Schoop, Aug 2003) 

Gnu 0.13 vs. Snowie 4  (Albert Silver, June 2003) 

Gnu 0.14 vs. Jellyfish  (Michael Howard+, July 2003) 

Gnu versus Snowie and Jellyfish  (Michael Depreli, Oct 2005) 

How luck factor is calculated  (Gregg Cattanach, Aug 2002) 

How rollouts work  (Gary Wong, July 1999) 

How to enter an illegal move  (Øystein Johansen, Aug 2003) 

Importing .gam files  (PAR+, Mar 2005) 

Importing PartyGammon matches  (rew+, July 2006) 

Improving your game using GnuBG  (D.U.G.+, Nov 2002) 

Installing on Windows  (maareyes, Oct 2001) 

Interpreting JSD's  (Adrian Wright+, Feb 2005) 

JSD's and confidence intervals  (Daniel Murphy+, Jan 2005) 

Logging rollouts  (Øystein Johansen, Oct 2004) 

Luck rate  (Kees van den Doel+, May 2002) 

MWC versus Equity (EMG)  (Ken+, Apr 2005) 

Manually entering first roll  (Andreas Graf+, Apr 2005) 

Match equity tables  (Raccoon, July 2005) 

Personal reflections  (Louis Nardy Pillards, Sept 2002) 

Playing two computers against each other  (Stanley E. Richards+, Mar 2008) 

Python scripting  (Øystein Johansen+, Nov 2004) 

Quasi-random dice in rollouts  (Ian Shaw, Mar 2004) 

Question marks in game list  (Jim Segrave, July 2005) 

Questions and answers  (Jim Segrave+, Jan 2003) 

Questions and answers  (Jørn Thyssen, Aug 2002) 

Restarting a rollout with different settings  (Jim Segrave, Apr 2005) 

Restarting a rollout with different settings  (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen, Apr 2004) 

Rollout settings  (geoff arnold+, Apr 2007) 

Rollout settings  (Stick+, Nov 2005) 

Rollout settings  (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen, Mar 2004) 

Rollout settings  (Ian Dunstan, Aug 2003) 

Rollout settings for the impatient  (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen, June 2004) 

Running rollouts in background  (Bruce+, Apr 2004) 

Saving rollout results from command-line interface  (Jeremy Bagai+, Apr 2006) 

Saving rollouts  (Mislav Radica+, May 2006) 

Setting GnuBG's playing strength  (JP White, Sept 2001) 

Setting skill level  (Jim Segrave, Apr 2004) 

Setting up and saving a rollout  (Albert Silver, Dec 2003) 

What's GNU?  (Gary Wong, Oct 2001) 

Which player is player 0?  (Neil Kazaross+, Oct 2004) 

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