This question came up about a year ago, and I can neither remember what
the answer was, nor find it in the archives.
Someone stated that running prime95 under windows they experienced
periodic hard drive activity, without any reason for it. Other people
noted that they had experienced the same problem even while not running
prime95.
I did not experience this until a few days ago when I upgraded from 64MB
to 128MB of RAM; since then, irregardless of what programs I have running,
my hard drive will, within a couple days, start 'clicking' (ie, short
bursts of activity) exactly once per second. It keeps on doing so until I
restart windows. (BTW, I am running win2k RC2, but it seems that this
occurs over all versions of win32).
I know this isn't related to Mersenne primes, but I'm hoping that someone
will remember the discussion and be able to help me.
Thanks,
Colin Percival
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