This is probably not the input you're looking for:
I joined GIMPS in the beginning of 1997
and installed mprime on most (i.e. 10) of the
P133-200 Linux boxes in our research group.
After some months, our group boss told me to remove it
from all except the one I myself am working on.
I first tried to ignore his command,
as the other users didn't see any problems.
But sometimes it happened that mprime went mad
due to the fact that it had to write intermediate files
onto an nfs mounted remote disk, which sometimes
failed because the network wasn't properly set up.
It then tended to steal more cycles than would be expected
from a 'nice' process (and didn't produce anything sensible anymore).
I don't know if he was aware of this problem, but
finally I had to obey because he insisted that
his machine runs slower if mprime runs on it,
and that it doesn't matter if other users agree to let
me run mprime on their machines,
while he as the administrator forbids it.
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