Presarioers, et al: On 07July00 I noted: "On several Athlon machines, from 750MHz to 1000MHz, P95 takes about the same number of clocks per iteration doing a factoring assignment, in the present case 4.75 billion. The Compaq 7998 settles at 5.28 billion for the same task, but can be driven down to 4.75 briefly by re-booting, running ReCache, and then some start/stop/start shenanigans. Soon the number of clocks starts to drift upward, and settles at 5.28/5.3 again" Found and smushed __one__ die-hard parasitic process by renaming it: bttnserver.exe which executes even after a utility such as ProcessViewer2000 has tried to kill it. Ordinarily 5 threads are spun for bttnserver, and only renaming makes it vanish. The result? About 100 million clocks saved per iteration! Best Wishes, Stefanovic _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt
