> My opinion is that it's better to have fewer correct results than to have
the central database poisoned by loads of "don't think it's prime, but the
user was overclocking" results, which of course cannot be distinguished from
perfect answers. I'd trade two unreliable answers for one honest result.
(What ends up happening is even worse. Mismatching checksums mean that the
tests must be repeated until a consensus is reached.)
at one time I had a number of those ILLEGAL SUMOUT errors, it turned out to
be caused by an errant internet multimedia plugin (Crescendo MIDI) which was
somehow interfering with the pentium-II's FPU. This problem was specific to
Windows95 too, I think, and went away with a later release of the kernel
(win98 or 98SE fixed it, I think... it definately is not a problem in NT or
Win2000). I think we all decided it was related to this plugin doing MMX
processing at a interrupt basis without properly notifying the kernel or
something similar to this.
Anyways, I suspect the probability of a hardware error causing erroneous
results without triggering MASSIVE numbers of check errors is slim-to-none.
How many mismatched checksums does primenet have to reconcile on a ongoing
basis?
-jrp
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