Abort while tournament running will leave engines running

[tvt2020]

If I click on the abort button while tournament is running, Winboard would close properly but leaves engines running on background.

[H.G.Muller]

I sometimes have that problem too. Have you tried setting a /delayAfterQuit? I think a problem might be that WinBoard kills the adapter before the adapter gets the chance to kill the engine. Normally, WinBoard would send a quit command to the adapters when PSWBTM tries to kill it, and if the adapters don't respond, kill them. But when the engines are running, they might soak up all CPU time, and the adapter might not get some before WinBoard gets impatient and kills it. With a /delayAfterQuit, (in msec) WinBoard will grant the adapter more time to terminate the engine.

[tvt2020]

The /delayAfterQuit=5000 works if I were to close winboard manually, PSWBTM-abort shutdown winboard immediately with no delay.


Question not relay to this post, is it possible for winboard to use PSWBTM’s engine configuration file as it own? Since both configuration files use the same engines.

[H.G.Muller]

It might be that this is what the PSWBTM import and export buttons are for. I can't be sure, I never touched those. I never install anything in the winboard.ini.

[tvt2020]

both import and export function did not work, all i get is blank.