At 11:40 PM 3/21/02 -0500, C. Garrison wrote: >Hi all. There was some discussion earlier about a team that reserved >several thousand exponents only to let them expire after 60 days. I'm not >sure we ever resolved what was happening then, but we have something >similar on another team now. Is there anyone who can speak for BART >(machine) on netconx (team)? This machine began acquiring 33Ms every few >minutes for the past day or two, and has amassed several hundred by >now. If it is intentional fine. If not, since it is still reserving >away, I thought bringing up the fact might lessen the longer term >reservation impact.
It seems to be reserving one exponent every 2 minutes. Since a malicious person could reserve exponents much faster, and would probably not be so steady over so many hours doing it by hand, I suspect it is a matter of a Prime95 process that has lost access to its disk space, thinks it has no work, and keeps downloading exponents, trying to save them, and then noting two minutes later (perhaps the timeout for a Windows share or other network mounted space) that it either has no worktodo, or the worktodo is empty, and looping. It is odd that it has gone on for so long though. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
