That did the trick! Now it not only works but it finds the solution really fast.

Thanks a lot,
Anna

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:19:23 -0500, David Oranchak <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I had a similar problem before and then discovered that the parameter
>needed to be the following:
>
>breed.elite.0 = 10
>
>-Dave
>
>On Nov 19, 2007, at 5:37 AM, Anna Esparcia wrote:
>
>> I'm running a very simple problem which uses simple.params, plus some
>> modifications on tutorial2.params. When looking at the out.stats
>> file I
>> noticed that the best fitness went up and down from one generation
>> to the
>> next. I thought this could be sorted using elitism, so i added the
>> following
>> line to the params file:
>>
>> breed.elites.0 = 10
>>
>> I thought this would keep the best 10 individuals from one
>> generation to the
>> next and hence, the fitness of the best individual would only
>> increase.
>> However, this is not the case and I still see the fitness
>> oscillate. Is this
>> normal behaviour? Were am I going wrong?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Anna