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From: Jeramy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, March 11, 2001 5:10 AM
Subject: Re: Mersenne: prime95 - v21 progress
>Martijn wrote:
>*SNIP*
>> Another solution that will work: Have as default a 7 day check in period
>> at most and only a grace period
>> of 7 days (not 60). Let the user set the check in period to a higher
>> value only via the expert menu and
>> after results have been checked in. That way abandoned exponents get
>> released in 14 instead of 80 days.
>>
>> Kind regards, Martijn
>
>That idea sounds the least painful of all that have been discussed so far
>(to me at least), and since the discussion of what people want in a new
>version of Prime95 has also been floating arround... this sounds like a
good
>suggestion to be submitted. It would not only take care of a problem, but
>would also not be so harsh to those who own slower machines. A win-win
>situation from those points of view. Great idea, Martijn!!
>
>Best wishes,
>Jeramy
>
I agree this is a good idea, although the 7-day grace period may be a little
drastic. But even reducing that just from 60 to 30 days (along with a 7-day
default check in) would release abandoned exponents in 37 days instead of
88. This would recycle them more than twice as fast, greatly enhancing the
odds of someone eventually getting the assignment who will actually finish
it. And I don't believe it would be necessary to put the default changes in
the expert menu; most people seem to not bother changing the defaults
anyway, and it is already impossible to change the defaults until after the
first exponent is assigned (unless you start/set up the program while
offline). As others have mentioned, the problem is NOT slow machines but
rather abandoned exponents, which has nothing to do with machine speeds.
This change would have no effect on those of us who have been regularly
completing our work and reporting it in, regardless of whether or not we
have slow machines.
Regards,
Steve Harris
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