Of course, I use the NT service version of Prime which installs itself as a
service. Of course, as George mentioned, you don't get the nice user
interface, but considering I run it on a bunch of "lights out" machines, I
could care less about the interface. :)
Plus, sometimes George doesn't get the NT service version out as soon as the
Prime95 versions. :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: Mersenne: NT / 2000 / XP users
> At 07:41 PM 9/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >Can someone explain to me why (and if) it's better to run Prime95 as a
> >service under these OSs? Is there a speed advantage? Also, who would be
> >serving whom?
>
> The primary advantage is that it remains running regardless of who (if
> anyone) is actually logged onto the box. Much in the same "general
> concept" of how mprime runs on Linux in the background of the context of
> the user ID that started it, mprime continues to run until killed, even if
> the user that started mprime logs off the Linux box. NT services are the
> same -- they AUTOMATICALLY start (if so configured) at bootup, and
> automatically start up in the context of a specific user (i.e. an
auto-cron
> job on a Linux box, a user's start.start file), and runs until stopped, no
> matter who logs in or out of the machine.
>
> This can be of great benefit to those NT boxen that may be rebooted --
it's
> the only way to auto-start an application in that manner, without hacking
> the registry to automatically log a user onto the box, and that presents a
> security hole to fly the space shuttle through.....
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