Mersenne: Big problems with temporary files
Hi! I have been running the program for several years. About a year ago I had a problem on my WIN2K system - prime95 had problems reading the intermediate files when starting, renaming the backup file was also not succesful which ultimately means that prime 95 restarts the prime test on the number - thus loosing a lot of work! [Sun Sep 15 20:52:20 2002] Iteration 116 / 15051427 [Mon Sep 16 09:26:38 2002] Error reading intermediate file: pF051427 Renaming intermediate file qF051427 to pF051427. Error reading intermediate file: pF051427 [Mon Sep 16 09:27:29 2002] Error reading intermediate file: pF051427 Renaming intermediate file qF051427 to pF051427. [Mon Sep 16 09:46:39 2002] Iteration 117 / 15051427 [Mon Sep 16 10:08:32 2002] Iteration 118 / 15051427 This is all done silently - only the results files shows the problem. I solved the problem then by installing the NT-service. Now I'm running XP and I just discovered that the problem is back. I have checked and set permissions on the file and directories. I have checked the sourcecode - but did'nt get much wiser. I have made my own copies of the intermediate files, and manually cpoied them to the prime95 folder - this does'nt work today! Please help! Best regards Lars Geisler LGSoftware www.lgsoftware.dk Tlf: 98 14 02 81 Mobil: 20 91 19 93 _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne: Re: Big problem . .
Thanks for the replies! I have checked the attributes etc on the files and directories. Don't forget that I have been running this program for a long time on this box with no problems. I have teted RAM with RamTest, it's OK. Gordon Spence told me, in a mail, has experienced the same problem, but did not find a solution even after consulting with George. I think there is an issue here: How many other machines has this problem - and thus is wasting a lot of CPU? I think there is a lot of boxes running in companies where nobody is checking the results file. I would like to suggest, that this kind of error should automatically be reported back to the project. Best Regards Lars Geisler LGSoftware www.lgsoftware.dk Tlf: 98 14 02 81 Mobil: 20 91 19 93 _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: New First Time Tests!
On Monday 16 September 2002 22:18, George Woltman wrote: I'm releasing about 3000 exponents from 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 for first-time testing! These have been tested once already, but the first run had one or more error. As we saw in another thread, this means the first test has less than a 50% chance of being correct. Retesting these exponents now rather than waiting for double-checking to get this high makes sense to me. Yes ... in fact it makes sense for LLtests with errors to be automatically recycled (but only the first time), since the worst that will happen is that there will be an early verification. If there are two results with the same residual this is very, very probably correct, even if both runs had errors - this may well happen, at least with some versions of Prime95/mprime, when the exponent is very close to a FFT run length crossover. Regards Brian Beesley _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Big problems with temporary files
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been running the program for several years. About a year ago I had a problem on my WIN2K system - prime95 had problems reading the intermediate files when starting, renaming the backup file was also not succesful which ultimately means that prime 95 restarts the prime test on the number - thus loosing a lot of work! [cut] I had the same problem yesterday, after upgrading my hardware. I reinstalled OS (Win98SE). I hope that helped. So far, so good. Artur _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne: http://mersenne.org/primenet/ - the world test status
1800 180921 333 1810 181920 347 1820 182922 364 2 1830 1839 Refer to the PrimeNet statistics charts http://mersenne.org/ips/stats.html for more information. ends somehow interrupted. br tsc _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
SV: Mersenne: http://mersenne.org/primenet/ - the world test status
After deleting the internet cache and doing it again 12:15 (local time) the result stay the same. br tsc -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Untermeyer, Gary Sendt: on 18-09-2002 22:28 Til: Torben Schlüntz Cc: Emne: RE: Mersenne: http://mersenne.org/primenet/ - the world test status This often happens if you try to view the report right after the hour, say at 3:01 or so. Maybe the file never got completely uploaded to the net. I'd check it again at 30 minutes past the hour and see if the next hourly update was more successful -Original Message- From: Torben Schlüntz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mersenne: http://mersenne.org/primenet/ - the world test status 1800 180921 333 1810 181920 347 1820 182922 364 2 1830 1839 Refer to the PrimeNet statistics charts http://mersenne.org/ips/stats.html for more information. ends somehow interrupted. br tsc _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Big problems with temporary files
That's the problem with silent errors. You may not know about them for a long time. By the time you learn about them, you will have completely forgotten about any configuration changes you might have done to the system that could have created the problem. I would suggest popping up a modeless dialog box in the case of such errors. It would inform the operator of the problem, and would wait for him to press OK, but would continue processing in the meantime. Provision could be made to send an email to some selected address so that the operator would be notified in case the machine is one that is not regularly accessed. Gary Edstrom On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 07:57:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have been running the program for several years. About a year ago I had a problem on my WIN2K system - prime95 had problems reading the intermediate files when starting, renaming the backup file was also not succesful which ultimately means that prime 95 restarts the prime test on the number - thus loosing a lot of work! [snip] This is all done silently - only the results files shows the problem. I solved the problem then by installing the NT-service. Now I'm running XP and I just discovered that the problem is back. I have checked and set permissions on the file and directories. I have checked the sourcecode - but did'nt get much wiser. I have made my own copies of the intermediate files, and manually cpoied them to the prime95 folder - this does'nt work today! Please help! [snip] _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne: Re: http://mersenne.org/primenet/ - the world test
Try accessing the Primenet status summary report directly at http://mersenne.org/primenet/summary.txt Richard Woods _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne: Primenet status summary report Exponent Range
Speaking of the Primenet status summary report at http://mersenne.org/primenet/summary.txt , someone needs to allocate another couple of columns to Exponent Range if it's going to be reporting on exponents over . Richard Woods _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
