Are you still running Windows 95 or something? Uptime on my workstation is currently 37 days 22 hours 34 minutes... I haven't rebooted sine I last installed a Windows patch. Windows XP is remarkably stable if you have reliable hardware and don't download and install every little doodad you see on the Net.
That said, Prime95 seems to hang for me, too, about once every two months on average. I have it running on a bunch of machines, including Windows XP, Windows 2000 Server, or Windows 2003 Servers. I simply scheduled a batch file on each machine to stop the Prime 95 service and restart it periodically. It is annoying to have to do resort to such a trick, and I think there is certainly a bug in Prime95 causing it. But the intervals between hangs seem totally random, and I haven't been able to figure out any other common factors. It happens on so many different machines I feel it has to be the Prime95 software, and not a hardware or OS issue. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hugh S. Myers > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 3:35 PM > To: 'The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search list' > Subject: RE: [Prime] Prime95 'hung up' > > Given the number of times Windows regularly blows its little mind when > connected 24x7 (at least in my experience on 7 machines) this > would indeed > be a very useful feature... > > --hsm > _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
