Re: Mersenne: complaint

1999-09-20 Thread Tom Goulet
Greetings again, Thank you for your responses and stuff. I am de-confused. I understand the relationship between the gimps and entropia.com, pretty much. After upgrading to the latest mprime, the segfault problems are gone. (segfault due to less than 16MBs of RAM, and segfault after goign to

Re: Mersenne: complaint

1999-09-16 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 07:42:53PM +0100, Brian J. Beesley wrote: I'm going to be _very_ interested in how many people choose to run $100,000 prize candidates using v19. There is an obvious balance between the time it takes to complete a test the enthusiasm of people to participate, even

Re: Mersenne: complaint

1999-09-16 Thread Spike Jones
Nick Craig-Wood wrote: If one had the data then it would be reasonably easy to calculate the expectation (in $ per year) for a given exponent size CPU. Nick, I worked this out a few months ago when the prizes were announced. Using a pentium II/400 the mathematical expectation for those

Re: Mersenne: complaint

1999-09-15 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 14 Sep 99, at 7:22, Henrik Olsen wrote: Personally I found installing and running it to be an extremely smooth operation, to the point where it takes less that 2 minutes to install on a new machine, including configuration, after which I just forget about it. Yes - I found the same thing

Re: Mersenne: complaint

1999-09-15 Thread Henrik Olsen
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Chris Jefferson wrote: On 14 Sep 99, at 7:22, Henrik Olsen wrote: Personally I found installing and running it to be an extremely smooth operation, to the point where it takes less that 2 minutes to install on a new machine, including configuration, after which

Re: Mersenne: complaint

1999-09-14 Thread Henrik Olsen
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Tom Goulet wrote: Greetings all, Greetings to you as well. snippets Also, I can get the client to segfault at least two different ways. Let me guess, low memony cause segfault at startup? This one has been announced as being fixed when v19 comes for Linux. The 'packet'

Re: Mersenne: complaint

1999-09-14 Thread Steven Whitaker
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:24:12 -0400, George wrote: Hi all, At 09:14 PM 9/13/99 -0400, Tom Goulet wrote: I wish to offer constructive feedback. If you must flame me, do it off-list. :) Constructive criticism is always welcome, although you will likely get some flames :) No flames so far, at

Mersenne: complaint

1999-09-13 Thread Tom Goulet
Greetings all, Firstly I think the GIMPS is a great thing and stuff, but I wish to offer constructive feedback. If I'm venting in the wrong place, just let me know. If you must flame me, do it off-list. :) I'm one of many who got fed up with distributed.net and cracking rc5des. So I hunted