RE: Mersenne: Prime freezing when connecting by DSL to Primenet

[Rob Reid]

As Xyzzy mentioned some of our team have had problems with client hanging as well. I personally have seen it in Prime95 and mprime (linux) both ver 21.4.1.   In both cases the client occasionally hangs during communication with Primenet. The hang happens at different times in the communication during manual or automatic communication. In Prime95 the client is not completely hung as it still responds to some client menu commands including 'about primenet server' which communicates with the server, however it does not continue factoring or LL testing and if you do a client exit it becomes completely unresponsive.   In linux killing and restarting the process seems to work, in Win2000,XP ending the process via task manager works.  Another team member has reported having to reboot to recover in Win98. There seem to be no side effect to killing the hung client unless the client was in the process of getting work in which case sometimes you are left with exponents showing on your Primenet report which are not in your worktodo.ini. In this case adding the entries to your worktodo seems to work. I have done some packet captures of a normal communication and a failed communication which with my limited experience appeared to show a missing packet from the server prior to the hang. These were supplied to George and Primenet and  I have exchanged a few email about the specifics of my set-up. I'm sure George and  Primenet would appreciate as much info as possible from those getting the error.   In my case OS - Win2000, WinXP, Linux Redhat7 Client - Prime95 21.4.1 and Mprime 21.4.1 Internet - Adsl via btopenworld.co.uk with Win2000 internet connection sharing.   Rob Reid www.teamprimerib.com