Re: Mersenne: Version 20 memory questions

[Luke Welsh]

At 01:53 PM 1/31/00 -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>>Are there better solutions?  It would be nice if prime95 could detect that
>>memory thrashing was happening and pause itself until more memory
>>was available.  Can Windows programs do this?
>
>Watch the time it takes to do an iteration; if it jumps up, go to sleep
>for a few minutes.

Run P-1 and LL in parallel?  Execute the P-1 thread when there are
enough "resources", otherwise LL.  If, after 1 week, P-1 has not
run to completion, give up on it.  Assuming 24x7, one week's worth
of overnights and weekends should be enough?

Maybe default to execute P-1 during "off hours" unless overridden
via a menu option?

--Luke


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