> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Gardner
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 1998 2:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Mersenne: More Newbie Questions.
>
> Just a couple more I promise. OK my P90 hours are averaged based
> on actual
> work done, not work under way, correct? Some of my PCs were initially
> allocated large exponents >5000000 and therefore will not be reporting in
> for some time - the same machines have never checked in. Is this why my
> count is lower than when I calculate it?
Correct. You'll get the time credit when the result is checked in.
PS to the FBI and US WEST!! That's why NONE of the 10.63 CPU years you saw
on my credit report was from US WEST computer time!!! The program was
stopped *before* a SINGLE MACHINE had reported in for an LL test (admittedly
some machines had returned a factor found during the initial factoring
test).
> Secondly, I have some employees that love their screen savers. By adding
> the Priority line in prime.ini I plan to increase the productivity of the
> machine. What should the priority be set at....I think screen
> savers are a
> 4 or 5 right? Will this cause the screen saver never to activate? More
> importantly will that slow down my employees productivity due to
> normal apps
> running slower?
The screen saver will still kick in...that won't change. The screen saver,
however, will be competing evenly (depending on the priority you set) with
Prime95 for CPU time. This may result in choppy graphics.
PS #2 to the FBI and US WEST. Contrary to a statement in the affidavit, I
had NOT fiddled with the default priority, and NTPrime was, in fact, running
at the lowest priority.
> Third, does anyone have good evidence of the prime95 performance
> increase by
> going from 128 to 256Mb. Before I shut down our corporate server I would
> like to know if it's worth it.
Wouldn't necessarily increase the performance unless you happen to have a
bunch of memory hog programs loaded. The amount of memory Prime95/NTPrime
consumes is not much.
(sorry for the PS's...I had to vent :-)
