I hope that everyone getting hang problem is using the latest v24.14
found at http://mersenne.org/gimps/ Versions 23 and 24 had many fixes
that have reduced hangs on both Windows and Linux for me. Note that I
say reduced but not completely eliminated.
On my linux boxes I run mprime set to communicate with Primenet only on
manual communication. This prevents the process that does the actual
work from getting hung trying to communicate with the server. I have a
cronjob that launches "mprime -c" every couple of days so that a new
process tries to contact the server everytime. At worst there are
several hung processes doing nothing but at least the Factoring/LL
testing is not interrupted. It is possible to rejig the cron job to
check if there are any existing "mprime -c" processes and do a kill -9
on them. Sturle's script is of course much more elegant :)
Anurag
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