Re: Mersenne: Version 20 memory questions

2000-02-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
>However, I assume that it will be possible to specify (change) what >hours are the >ON hours. I suppose that midnight to 06:00 would be fine for most >people, as a >default. This probably depends on your distro. Red Hat and Mandrake run their crontabs between 4 and 5 in the morning, so that hour

Re: Mersenne: Version 20 memory questions

2000-02-01 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 31 Jan 00, at 11:38, George Woltman wrote: > GIMPS has always had a good reputation for not interfering with > your normal work. To preserve GIMPS' reputation, I'm thinking of > implementing the following. In the Options/CPU dialog, prime95 will let > you select the maximum amount of memory

Mersenne: Re: Version 20 memory questions

2000-02-01 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 01:35:36PM -0600, David J. Zook wrote: >I have been looking for a method to determine how much RAM is "really" >available >(without using swap file), but have never seen it mentioned in any way. A quick and dirty test would be using ReCache (see previous discussion on mers

Re: Mersenne: Version 20 memory questions

2000-02-01 Thread David J. Zook
For a machine with 64 MB and up, defaulting to ON during night hours would seem OK to me (I have 144 MB). However, I assume that it will be possible to specify (change) what hours are the ON hours. I suppose that midnight to 06:00 would be fine for most people, as a default. It should be possibl

Re: Mersenne: Re: Is it new? (fwd)

2000-02-01 Thread Daniel Grace
- Original Message - From: Wojciech Florek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 12:43 PM Subject: Mersenne: Re: Is it new? (fwd) > >Playing with factors of mersennes I've found the following > >relation: > > > >Let p=4q+b, b=1,3, and a=4-b (so a=3,

Mersenne: Re: Is it new? (fwd)

2000-02-01 Thread Wojciech Florek
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:59:38 -0500 From: George Woltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wojciech Florek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Is it new? Hi, At 01:39 PM 1/30/00 +0100, you wrote: >Playing with factors of mersennes I've found the following >relation

Re: Mersenne: Version 20 memory questions

2000-02-01 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
At 20:58 31.01.00 -0500, David Campeau wrote: >If you always leave 20% of ram to the system to work with, there should not >be a problem. I wonder how you're going to find out that there's anything left. *ALL* of my NT systems routinely run with a commit charge around double physical memory (t