Mersenne: Prime search on SMP Linux

2000-01-03 Thread Sandy Harris
I'd like to search for Mersenne primes on my SMP Linux box. Info on the search is at: http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm Machine is a dual Celeron 466, 256 megs. It is my server, basically single-user, powered up 24/7 and I'm not there all time. RedHat 6.1, 2.2.x kernel. I'd like to run one

Re: Mersenne: Prime search on SMP Linux

2000-01-03 Thread George Woltman
Hi Sandy, At 11:41 AM 1/3/00 -0500, Sandy Harris wrote: I'd like to run one copy of the search code in such a way that it monopolises one CPU, in hopes it will succeed relatively quickly. Is there a way to do that? Yes. Run mprime -m and choose Advanced/Priority. Enter a value of 9 instead of