On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, jason wrote:
> I just grabbed sprime.tar.gz off the ftp site, and to my dismay, I have
> run into a couple of problems:
>
> a) When I start the new version, I keep getting "Error 2250: Server
> unavailable" messages. I have "UseHTTP=1" in prime.ini, so what gives?
> I switched back to v18.1.2 and it connects to entropia.com just fine.
No idea, I haven't seen a problem with either the LInux or the Win95
versions.
>
> b) When I killed mprime (v19), I realized that it had been *factoring* my
> highest exponent (which was not the current one being tested), when it's
> explicitly set up to do Lucas-Lehmer tests only. Is this the intended
> behavior? The number that it was factoring is > 7100000, if that's
> pertinent.
The documentation explicitely mentions that it's factoring to a higher
limit in the new version, and since catching up in factoring before
going on to LL testing has been a feature for a while, it's not _that_
surprising.
Note that this catching up on factoring includes factoring newly assigned
exponents BEFORE continuing with the current LL test and it isn't a new
thing, but has been there as long as I've been on this project.
>
> I can't recall if these problems were discussed on the list already during
> beta-testing (out of curiosity, is there an archive of recent messages?).
> Thanks in advance for any pointers or insights.
>
> -jason
>
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