This probably isn't a problem, but it is an interesting feature of V18.1.1 prime95. Just before a system backup, prime95 fetched a new exponent to work on. A few hours later, I stopped the machine to do a backup which took approximately 12 hours. When starting the system back up, prime95 decided I had too much work to do and gave back the exponent. A day later, prime95 decided it was time to get another exponent and so I have yet another exponent to test. Obviously, prime95 is trying to determine the approximate "hours per day" it is running to get X-days of work and I happened to hit that threshold (both coming and going) that caused this strange game of Ping-Pong. I don't think anything really needs to be done (unless you really want to add some hysteresis to the exponent check-out procedure), but it was interesting to watch. -Allan _________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
