Re: Mersenne: LLL
Hi, At 12:15 AM 5/14/99 +0400, Alexey Khlyamkov wrote: I'am so sorry for this situation. No need to apologize Alexey. This is really a bug in mprime. My disk quota on the server was overfulled in that time and mprime running on several machines which connected to main server via NFS zeroed out some setting files such as local.ini and worktodo.ini. Prior to contacting the server, mprime calls the routine IniFileWritable, which should have returned FALSE and thereby avoiding contact with the server to get more work. I do not know why this routine failed - maybe it has something to do with NFS. I can't test an NFS setup, but I'll try debugging using a local disk. Best regards, George Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
RE: Mersenne: LLL
Perhaps Scott could contact this fellow and see whats up? I know when I had a bunch of machines checking out numbers, Scott emailed me to be sure it wasn't just a bug or something. At any rate, it looks like all the LL exponents have been chewed up. Moreover, judging by the estimated time to complete, these are not fast machines... LLL would probably have been better off leaving the auto assignment turned on because I'd guess it would have taken DoubleCheck exponents. I hope this person knows what they're doing! Some of those numbers checked out all had the same ComputerID...hmmm... Aaron -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of david campeau Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 11:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mersenne: LLL I don`t know what is going on, but LLL as about 6000 exponnent reserved and it`is still asking for more! If this continue for the night there should not be any exponnent available this morning. David, P.S. current number of exponents available 5351 (5AM UTC) Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
RE: Mersenne: LLL
Maybe there something wrong with the PrimeNet server? Earlier today I had some of my machines check in and it seemed a little wacky. Also, entropia.com seems to be pretty flacky especially the status pages. When I loaded my individual account report it went completely nuts and told me I had 1000's 1000's of numbers check out (then I did a reload and it back to normal). Shane At 10:29 AM 5/13/99 -0600, Aaron Blosser wrote: Perhaps Scott could contact this fellow and see whats up? I know when I had a bunch of machines checking out numbers, Scott emailed me to be sure it wasn't just a bug or something. At any rate, it looks like all the LL exponents have been chewed up. Moreover, judging by the estimated time to complete, these are not fast machines... LLL would probably have been better off leaving the auto assignment turned on because I'd guess it would have taken DoubleCheck exponents. I hope this person knows what they're doing! Some of those numbers checked out all had the same ComputerID...hmmm... Aaron Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
Re: Mersenne: LLL
I don`t know what is going on, but LLL as about 6000 exponnent reserved and it`is still asking for more! If this continue for the night there should not be any exponnent available this morning. I'am so sorry for this situation. I couldn't log in to our main server for some days because my account was locked through misunderstanding. My disk quota on the server was overfulled in that time and mprime running on several machines which connected to main server via NFS zeroed out some setting files such as local.ini and worktodo.ini. So, every time when every machine runs mprime, it asked primenet server for new exponent because it couldn't find anything in worktodo.ini :-( I returned everything to the normal state except redundantly reserved exponents. Please, PrimeNet supervisor, take all exponents from me which reserved for me after May 11 (if that is not too hard for you). It is better to change primenet software in order to avoid incidents like this. Sorry for inconvenience, Alexey Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
RE: Mersenne: LLL
My disk quota on the server was overfulled in that time and mprime running on several machines which connected to main server via NFS zeroed out some setting files such as local.ini and worktodo.ini. So, every time when every machine runs mprime, it asked primenet server for new exponent because it couldn't find anything in worktodo.ini :-( I returned everything to the normal state except redundantly reserved exponents. Please, PrimeNet supervisor, take all exponents from me which reserved for me after May 11 (if that is not too hard for you). It is better to change primenet software in order to avoid incidents like this. Well, that solves that mystery. I knew it was only a matter of time before some instace of Prime95 went crazy and started reserving exponents like mad. I guess it should check that a checked out exponent is properly saved in the worktodo.ini file. I assume there is some error checking going on during the write to file routines? I hope so! :-) Aaron Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
