On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 09:02:12PM -0400, Paul Missman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is there anyone on the list that is running FreeBSD 3.0 or later with
> mprime,
> who could amend the directions? I've had a couple folks asking me for
> help, but I don't have a 3.0 or later version, and am not likely to get one.
I am - two machines doing LL and one doing factoring.
The only problem I have is that mprime doesn't seem to be able to understand
that it's online, and never actually tries to contact the PrimeNet server -
it just keeps saying "You are not connected to the Internet.". Apparently
this is because mprime looks for /proc/net/route to see if the machine is
on the net, which FreeBSD doesn't have (all three machines I run mprime on
are on dedicated Internet connections). I run my FreeBSD machines in offline
mode, using the manual PrimeNet web forms to request/report exponents.
There's also the issue of memory usage, which may or may not be a problem
depending on how beefy and/or busy your machine is. As an example:
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
307 bryanf 105 20 18012K 2812K RUN 37.6H 98.19% 98.19% mprime
It's grabbed 18Mb of memory, though only 2.8Mb is resident.
There is a native FreeBSD client rumoured to be forthcoming which should
resolve these problems, and which I'm really looking forward to. :)
> I hate to have folks not running mprime, just because FreeBSD changed
> its ELF handling.
I'm unsure what you mean by this - FreeBSD changed to ELF as it's main object
type (with a.out support still included) with the 3.0 release, so it should be
easier to run ELF stuff. Just enable Linux support in rc.conf, reboot, and
run the binary. Then when it starts complaining that it's not connected to
the Internet (ack), turn off PrimeNet connections, use the web forms, and cut
and paste into worktodo.ini.
Bryan
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