RE: Mersenne: V20 beta

2000-03-17 Thread Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy
1) The program now does some P-1 factoring prior to running first time and double-checking Lucas-Lehmer tests. This will increase overall GIMPS throughput. If you install version 20 in the middle Does this mean that the exponent's that we've already done factoring on will be

RE: Mersenne: V20 beta

2000-03-17 Thread Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy
I just upgraded and am now getting an 2250 error when attempting to contact the primenet servers. Am I doing something wrong??? G-Man _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ --

RE: Mersenne: V20 beta

2000-03-17 Thread Nathan Russell
From: "Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "George Woltman" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mersenne: V20 beta Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:37:07 -0500 I just upgraded and am now getting an 2250 error when attempting to contact the primenet

Mersenne: Quit after current work finishes?

2000-03-17 Thread Russel Brooks
How do I quit a pc from GIMPS after the current piece of work finishes (without getting any more work). I tried setting Test-PrimeNet-"Always have this many days of work queued up:" to Zero, but One is as low as it allows. cheers... Russ

Mersenne: M 10133741

2000-03-17 Thread Nathan Russell
In a scan of the PrimeNet status page (http://www.entropia.com/primenet/status.txt) I noticed that this exponent was due to expire sometime around last Halloween. Is there a bug in the server? Is the owner a QA person who is being given some leniency? If so, why is the server being used?