On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> >Secondly, I used to feed the output to a virtual terminal, but decided that
> >having a hard copy that I could periodically check was better. I've been
> >piping all the output to a file, such as mprime -d
> >>>/home/GIMPS/tracking.txt. When it finishes reporting a result, I delete
> >everything but the result and let mprime continue on to the next LL test
> >using the same file.
>
> If you delete a file while a program is writing to it, it will keep on writing
> to the now nameless file, and will keep eating up disk space, until the program
> quits or closes the file, at which time the file will disappear.
I don't delete the file, just all of the iteration information from
completed exponents within the file. That way I have a running record of
current exponent iteration progress as well as past exponents completed
(in addition to the info contained in the results.txt file).
Kel
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