david eddy wrote: >Another feature I have noticed is that the allocation rate exceeds the >completion rate by a factor of 3. Is this rate of "attrition" inevitable? > > This is mainly caused by people who stress test their (overclocked) computers. Stress testing doesn't work with dual core processors, so you have to feed two Prime95 instances two exponents to get the desired results. Another part of the problem is that there are many websites on the net that advise to download Prime95 and just run it to stress the processor.
Yours on the Net, Henk _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
