At 03:29 PM 1/27/03 -0500, George Woltman wrote:
Garo identified some Team_Prime_Rib exponents in there. Two of them are exponents I reclaimed a couple of weeks ago from another TPR member that were about to expire. There were originally a dozen or so, I'm down to the last three, and the third has progress on it. I expect to finish them within a month, but I've some exponents that are lower than these to work off. Here are the two that meet those criteria, I'd like to ask that they be exempted:It's been quite awhile since I've done a release of exponents that seem to be stuck - probably over a year.I've identified 185 exponents that have had NO progress reported and are either: a) Below 12,000,000 and been assigned for 200 days or more, or b) Between 12 and 20 million and been assigned for 300 days or more Does anyone see any problems with releasing these exponents back into the pool?
18595361 F 59 347.8 2.2 60.2 25-Jan-03 12:23 12-Feb-02 14:04 Team_Prime_Rib trif_pest
18652897 F 59 338.3 3.2 60.2 25-Jan-03 12:23 22-Feb-02 02:09 Team_Prime_Rib trif_pest
Looking at the other exponents in the factoring range, over half are assigned to one machine. JohnMartin has several machines most of which cause no problem whatsoever. But the Don machine is very "streaky". It'll take a couple of months to finish one assignment and then bam, run off several in a row. If the machine didn't have such a deep queue, it wouldn't take so long to get through them all. It also connects very infrequently. I've even seen this machine get to within a hairsbreadth of expiring all its exponents, only to connect and refresh them. But it does eventually complete its assignments. There's no good way of telling how many completed exponents it may be sitting on waiting for its next connect.
The tsc machines show some very odd behavior. The exponents do a "red light, green light" game. One exponent I've been following started at 5, went to 2, back up to 5, then ran all the way up to 15 before dropping back to nothing and now it shows a 1. Others are similarly dancing around. I find myself wondering if restores from backup are causing the behavior. The ones currently showing no progress ought to be safe to nuke.
The other three I don't know, they're just randoms. Probably safe to nuke.
17035867 351.0 JohnMartin Don
17137801 351.0 JohnMartin Don
17211269 351.0 JohnMartin Don
17914693 384.5 tsc helly
18207929 349.0 JohnMartin Don
18235439 434.7 tsc jansta
18235507 434.7 tsc jansta
18423907 371.3 JohnMartin Don <---the lead exponent
18423931 371.3 JohnMartin Don
18454609 367.5 JohnMartin Don
18454627 367.5 JohnMartin Don
18458879 367.2 S07370 C18BF6A13
18580313 353.2 JohnMartin Don
18827209 330.3 jemh24 jorge <---shows 5809 days to completion!
18875687 323.2 JohnMartin Don
18918859 319.1 tfritz tfritz_work
_________________________________________________________________________
Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm
Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
