I just upgraded my linux box mprime to 21.3. The machine is a dual P3. One CPU has been running LL, and the other factoring (currently ECM). I have been starting mprime with a shell script, putting each execution in an xterm, using the -m option to get the -d printout and make it easy to interrupt execution and query the status. With mprime 20.x both CPU's were devoting more than 98% of their time to mprime. Now during one phase of ECM a lot of CPU power (>50% at times) is going to X and xterm. Is it just that 21.3 is running ECM so much faster that its output takes up significant resources, or is there more to it? I have switched to running without -m or -d options, but is there an easy way to get more visibility without the big slowdown? All advice welcome. Gerry -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
