Hmm ... my comp has NO idle time anymore (8
At 10:08 PM 3/11/2002, you wrote:
see http://www.freechess.org/ for a way to attract GIMPS members.
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Is your computer doing all it can? Do you have idle CPU cycles laying
around that aren't doing anything for you? Put
Mersenne Digest Sunday, March 25 2001 Volume 01 : Number 832
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:42:17 -0500
From: Nathan Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mersenne: First illegal prime?
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Hmm ... my comp has NO idle time anymore (8
even with prime95 running 24/7 on my Windows2000 system, it seems to come up
with a FEW idle cycles. I figure its when prime95 gets paged out or
something. I rebooted a couple of hours ago after photoshop blew up and
left the system kinda crispy, in
On 25 Mar 2001, at 2:08, John R Pierce wrote:
Hmm ... my comp has NO idle time anymore (8
even with prime95 running 24/7 on my Windows2000 system, it seems to
come up with a FEW idle cycles.
Yes, to enable low-priority tasks to respond to events (mouse clicks
etc) the scheduler makes
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, John R Pierce wrote:
Hmm ... my comp has NO idle time anymore (8
even with prime95 running 24/7 on my Windows2000 system, it seems to come up
with a FEW idle cycles. I figure its when prime95 gets paged out or
something. I rebooted a couple of hours ago after photoshop
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:03:01AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
How does idle time accrue *to a process*? Idle time is when the CPU is not
executing any process.
Just like the brain, your computer can not `do nothing'. `Idle' time would
most likely be spent in some sort of loop, possibly a HLT
At 10:03 AM 3/25/01 -0500, you wrote:
even with prime95 running 24/7 on my Windows2000 system, it seems to come up
with a FEW idle cycles. I figure its when prime95 gets paged out or
How does idle time accrue *to a process*? Idle time is when the CPU is not
executing any process.
On a Win32
How does idle time accrue *to a process*? Idle time is when the CPU is not
executing any process.
in virtually every multitasking OS, there is a special "IDLE" process. This
is usually something as simple as...
idleloop:
HLT
JMP idleloop
and this process is
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:09:02 +0200, Steiner wrote:
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:03:01AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
How does idle time accrue *to a process*? Idle time is when the CPU
is not executing any process.
Just like the brain, your computer
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:10:06 -, Brian J. Beesley wrote (re gray
bits):
This is an example of the sort of "copy protection" I find
acceptable, because I can make as many perfect copies as I like for
my own use; nonetheless the copies can be
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:12:49 -, Brian J. Beesley wrote:
On 20 Mar 2001, at 18:42, Nathan Russell wrote:
Slashdot takes a particular interest in this program because many
of their editors and members believe that CSS is an infringment of
On 25 Mar 2001, at 16:47, Nathan Russell wrote:
There was a mildly amusing article on Slashdot several weeks ago
about how, when the international space station was resupplied, DVD
movies were among the items the astronauts requested as part of
their personal weight allowance.
There was
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Jeff Woods wrote:
At 10:03 AM 3/25/01 -0500, you wrote:
even with prime95 running 24/7 on my Windows2000 system, it seems to come up
with a FEW idle cycles. I figure its when prime95 gets paged out or
How does idle time accrue *to a process*? Idle time is when the CPU is
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:00 PST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subj: small bug in Mlucas 2.7b error checking
In doing some testing of exponents very near the upper
limit of what Mlucas 2.7b allows for 640K FFT length,
I discovered a bug which in some case will allow per-
iteration roundoff checking to
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