Re: Mersenne: Restarting several LL.DC checks

2001-11-22 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Hi, I am verry sorry for you, As long as you do not change your account information (including password) the server will not be confused. I once had a software failure leading to the same problems and took over some assignments from other teammembers who decided to quit from the project. Kind Re

Re: Mersenne: Primenet communication details.

2001-11-20 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Are you talking about a linux system?! Add a cron job executing: ifup ppp0 (or your distro's equivalent to get up the dail up link) sleep 10 mprime -c sleep 5 ifdown ppp0 Every week for instance (also configure mprime accordingly) Configure mprime to not contact priment automatically. Kind reg

Re: Mersenne: Like missing baby's first step

2001-07-31 Thread Martijn Kruithof
> > I think it is more the following situatiuon: > > 95+% done, connecting to prime.net -> GET NEW WORK !! -> start with new > work ! > > After 5-7% the old workfile gets it's active flag back and will be > completed. > > This situation is really b*llsh*t, imagine the new number is very high, > i

Re: Mersenne: Resurrecting an lapsed machine?

2001-07-24 Thread Martijn Kruithof
You could even make a shadow mprime install on your own pc that you use exclusively to keep your mothers exponent alive. You could also set the auto check in time on your mothers machine to a large value. (maybe even + holidays (on / no comm) when you are there) - Original Message - From:

Re: Mersenne: scientific american

2001-07-22 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Actually given the right imaging equipment around the haystack locating a needle in a haystack should take less than 1 minute. A low cost version w/o imaging could probaly do it in about 1 hour (strong magnet + pulling the haystack out of order) - Original Message - From: "mohk" <[EMAIL P

Re: Mersenne: missing exponents?

2001-05-12 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Achim Passauer wrote: > Hi all again, > > Dietmar, thanks for your answer. Well that might be an explanation but to > move thousands of exponents from the cleared list to the still-to-do-list > would also mean a major setback, wouldn´t it? And I´d highly appreciate to > be informed about that by

Mersenne: Mersenne stats screwed up

2001-04-20 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Hello It seems like the primenet statistics got wrong one way or another, all activity since the 12th of this month has been removed from my activity report. How serious is this (only temporary / not temporary but final results checked in are ok / not ok at all checked in final results are lost)

RE: Mersenne: PrimeNet vulnerable to client misconfiguration?

2001-04-16 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Hello, if that what you describe is the problem the solution is obvious If a client checked out an (set of) exponent(s) and has not returned it yet just re-assign that same (set of) exponent(s). It could also be that some user does this on purpose for instance someone with 5 machines behind a f

RE: Mersenne: Security of prime95 + electricity costs.

2001-03-11 Thread Martijn Kruithof
I have verified the possibility of a buffer overflow exploit in primenet.c (used in linuxs mprime) It seems NOT vurneralbe (so it seems safe to me) NO buffer overflow is likely to occur. Notwithstanding I am running mprime as user mersenne with virtually no rights and no shell. _

RE: Mersenne: prime95 - v21 progress

2001-03-11 Thread Martijn Kruithof
> > > > I agree this is a good idea, although the 7-day grace period > may be a little > > drastic. But even reducing that just from 60 to 30 days (along > with a 7-day > > default check in) would release abandoned exponents in 37 days > instead of > > 88. This would recycle them more than twice a

RE: Mersenne: prime95 - v21 progress

2001-03-10 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Hello, because of the discussion about the speed on the slowest exponents I did some calculations: Result: The limits like 750 MHz or even 350 MHz for the smalles exponents are completely ridiculous, certainly if we do not take into account the number of it is on, a 1000 MHz machine on for 8x5 ho

Re: Mersenne: hah

2001-02-18 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Actually as long as you have not started you assignment and you do intermediairy check ins of status, and the assignment is finished before you started working on it, it will be dropped from your assignment list, it only stays if you are already working on it. Martijn - Original Message

Re: Mersenne: Exponent already completed?

2000-10-09 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Hi Get your machine to finish this assignment off, this is not a double checking assignment, when you finish this assignment you will be credited with double checking credits (Exactly the same as when you do a first check.) It helps the project very much to finish this kind of assignment, as this

Re: Mersenne: Exponent already completed?

2000-10-09 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Hi Get your machine to finish this assignment off, this is not a double checking assignment, when you finish this assignment you will be credited with double checking credits (Exactly the same as when you do a first check.) It helps the project very much to finish this kind of assignment, as this

Re: Mersenne: primenet assignment question

2000-09-18 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Hi, If you want double-checks, you can indicate this in the setup, go to the test/primenet menu, here you can indicate the type of work you want to do, this overrides the cpu setting. I can see that your exponent was reserved 2,4 days ago and expires in 85,6 days. After 88 days your exponent expi

Re: Mersenne: Assignment of Exponents

2000-07-24 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Depending on CPU power and preferences (which may override CPU power) you get factoring, first time LL or double check, Smallest exponents are given out first. All exponents which are overdue are added to the list again around 6 AM GMT These exponents may still be finished by the original owner, t

Re: Mersenne: Assignment "stolen"

2000-06-15 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Hi, It is a first time test, I do not care to run some double checks, the problem however is that I cannot even put double-check in the worktodo file, the assignment will be deleted as soon as the primenet server is contacted. It says it already has a result for the exponent. I think I will b

Re: Mersenne: Whither PrimeNet Server?

2000-04-29 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Stefan Struiker wrote: > > A garland of 404s beyond the / of /ips. Yet results are still received, > and the Entropia Home page displays. Never knew I'd miss the weekend > stats so much. > > Sigh, > Stefanovic prepend www to entropia.com and it works -- http://jkf.penguinpowered.com Linux

Re: Mersenne: Primenet Proxy and Prime Blowing Up

2000-04-21 Thread Martijn Kruithof
gordon spence wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am getting very frustrated by the following and am searching for clues > > PC1 (P133/128mb/Win2000) is running the PrimeNet Proxy software plus V20 in > double checking mode > > This machine is also the *Internet* proxy for my home lan. The Internet >

Re: Mersenne: factoring

2000-04-19 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Note that Mfactor (as currently configured) > doesn't support putting multiple exponents into a to-do > file, so the best way to trial factor lots of exponents > is probably just to paste the one-line inputs needed for > the exponents, one after another, into the same window - > when the program

Re: Mersenne: Facelift (round 2)

2000-04-18 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Hello, The new view works ok, I even tested the site-map with lynx, it works! I definety like this look. Count me also in on the votes against frames please. I also do not find the text wrapping around the sitemap very nice. I like the broad left margin model better. Kind Regards, Martijn Geor

Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #3

2000-04-15 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Henrik Olsen wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: > > At 14:51 15.04.2000 +0200, Henrik Olsen wrote: > > >On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Brian J. Beesley wrote: > > > > On 15 Apr 00, at 4:22, Henrik Olsen wrote: > > > > > > > > > I just tried downloading 20.3, both mprime and spri

Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #3

2000-04-15 Thread Martijn Kruithof
George Woltman wrote: > > Hi, > > At 10:56 AM 4/15/00 -0700, Will Edgington wrote: > >near line > >761 of linux/primenet.c, where there's an fopen("/proc/net/route", > >"r") inside an #ifdef __linux__. Look lower down, after the #endif, > >and note that __FreeBSD__ doesn't have a similar check;

Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #3

2000-04-15 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Henrik Olsen wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Brian J. Beesley wrote: > > On 15 Apr 00, at 4:22, Henrik Olsen wrote: > > > > > I just tried downloading 20.3, both mprime and sprime, as well as tried > > > with mprime 19.0.2 . None of them where able to detect the network as > > > being available o

Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #4 (will the beta never end?)

2000-04-13 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Martijn Kruithof wrote: Hello, all Furthermore since the 20.62 % is completed it is only stepping percentage as fast as the P-1 phase normally went, the other instance finished the P-2 withing 6 hours! (This one clearly not) Could anyone provide me with a beta #3 mprime so that I can rerun the

Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #4 (will the beta never end?)

2000-04-12 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Hello all, This happened on my machine while switching from beta 3 to beta 4 is this correct? Starting P-1 factoring on M33237229 with B1=33, B2=264 Chance of finding a factor is an estimated 4.08% P-1 on M33237229 with B1=33, B2=264 M33237229 stage 2 is 12.08% complete. Time: 18

Re: Mersenne: V20

2000-04-07 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Hi Martijn, > > At 07:15 AM 4/7/00 +0200, Martijn Kruithof wrote: > >A small suggestion for the V20 is also to output the P-1 factoring > >progress information once in a while to the results file. > > OK. The next version will work the same way LL testing and factori

Mersenne: V20

2000-04-06 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Hi, A small suggestion for the V20 is also to output the P-1 factoring progress information once in a while to the results file. I have currently 3 cpu's doing P-1 factoring, and I do not see anything at all in the results file. Furthermore the machines busy P-1 factoring do not update anythi

Mersenne: merging assignments

2000-03-26 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Hello, Currently I am running mprime on NT and Linux on a dual box separately, now I got a shared partition and I want just to go on with one assignment a time per cpu. Can I merge the worktodo files and just copy over all the files to one directory? (renaming the files from linux to the "stan

Re: Mersenne: $1 Million For Proof Of Goldbach's Conjecture?

2000-03-21 Thread Martijn Kruithof
- Original Message - From: "Ken Kriesel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 5:31 AM Subject: Re: Mersenne: $1 Million For Proof Of Goldbach's Conjecture? > >On 20 Mar 00, at 19:01, Stefan Struiker wrote: > > > >>LONDON , March 17