On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 10:27:48AM -0500, Paradox wrote: > In about 10 days, I've got 5 Pentium4 computers that will be submitting > completed LL tests (for 10,000,000 digit numbers). I used to have dozens > of smaller computers working on such LL tests for years, and so I have a > collection of Prime95/mprime directories which have 60% to 80% completed > LL tests in them. I'm going to want to make sure that the currently > running mprime's on the P4s do not get new assignments, so that I can > simply remove those copies of mprime and replace it with a copy from my > collection. > > For now, I've set the "Days of Work" to 1. If I were to set days of work > to 0, what would happen? How can I tell it to simply submit the results > to primenet, disconnect, and then exit the program when it is done?
There should be no need to do this. On the old machines, stop mprime, and copy the mprime backup files (pNNNNNNNN, and qNNNNNNNN if it exists) to the machine you want to continue their tests. Then add in the relevant lines from worktodo.ini on the old machines to that on the new one. The machine should then pick up the outstanding tests where the previous machines left off. Keep the existing Days of Work settings on the new machines - once they've exhausted the leftover assignments they will then go back to doing new assignments as before. I've used this method a few times in the past when I've temporarily had mprime running on machines during testing, prior to their being installed as major servers, and have had to transfer unfinished work elsewhere :-) -- --------------- Robin Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------- Oxford University Computing Services ----------- Web: http://www.cynic.org.uk/ ------- (+44)(0)1865: 273212 (work) 273275 (fax) Mobile: 07776 235326 ------- _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
