Re: Mersenne: PrimeNet server unavailable?

2003-07-09 Thread Robin Stevens
failing to report are all running v21. Mass upgrade time! Robin -- --- Robin Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Oxford University Computing Services --- Web: http://www.cynic.org.uk/ ---

Mersenne: PrimeNet server unavailable?

2003-07-08 Thread Robin Stevens
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Re: Mersenne: servers down completely?

2003-03-23 Thread Robin Stevens
tshub-f0.cts.com (209.68.192.250) 279.896 ms 258.750 ms 249.915 ms 29 ctshub8.cts.com (209.68.192.248) 259.907 ms 258.745 ms 259.924 ms 30 ctshub-f0.cts.com (209.68.192.250) 249.890 ms 258.748 ms 259.916 ms And here's my home machine for once dialled up and with results to submit... --

Re: Mersenne: Prime95 version 23.1 - Pentium 4 improvements

2003-02-13 Thread Robin Stevens
the threshold for factoring/double checks these days? -- ------- Robin Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Oxford University Computing Services --- Web: http://www.cynic.org.uk/ --- (+44)(0)1865: 273212 (work) 273275 (fa

Re: Mersenne: electrical energy needed to run a LL-Test?

2002-04-27 Thread Robin Stevens
claims to take 130W, 15" LCDs seem to take around 30W). I used this to show that replacing CRTs with LCDs purely to lower power bills wasn't yet economic. (And 1024x768 resolution isn't enough for me anyway :-) -- --- Robin Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Mersenne: Work being wasted

2002-02-04 Thread Robin Stevens
diate checkins to PrimeNet will then cause unstarted > assignments which are no longer neccessary to be automatically > removed. Of course if one _keeps_ doing this, then the smallest exponents never get processed (and perhaps they become more likely to be poached) :-) -- ---

Re: Mersenne: variable iteration speeds

2002-01-19 Thread Robin Stevens
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:11:49PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 15 Jan 2002, at 22:00, Robin Stevens wrote: > > On an otherwise idle Linux system, I've been noticing that the > > per-iteration speed has been varying during the course of a single > > prima

Mersenne: variable iteration speeds

2002-01-15 Thread Robin Stevens
Per iteration time: 0.200 sec. [Jan 15 00:53] Iteration: 600 / 13355561 Per iteration time: 0.194 sec. [Jan 15 03:35] Iteration: 605 / 13355561 Per iteration time: 0.194 sec. [Jan 15 06:16] Iteration: 610 / 13355561 Per iteration time: 0.194 sec. -- --- Ro

Re: Mersenne: Preventing new assignments

2002-01-13 Thread Robin Stevens
e temporarily had mprime running on machines during testing, prior to their being installed as major servers, and have had to transfer unfinished work elsewhere :-) -- --- Robin Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Oxford University Computing Services --- Web: h

Re: Mersenne: new milestone

2002-01-08 Thread Robin Stevens
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:47:36AM +0100, Henk Stokhorst wrote: > [-- text/html is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --] Hmmm. Any chance of keeping this list text-only, please? :-) -- ------- Robin Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Oxford U

Re: Mersenne: Re: Munich prime party report

2002-01-01 Thread Robin Stevens
ct to speed up the search, which is a pity :-) -- --- Robin Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Oxford University Computing Services --- Web: http://www.cynic.org.uk/ --- (+44)(0)1865: 273212 (work) 273275 (fax) Mobile: 07776 235326 --- _

Re: Mersenne: glitches in mprime v19?

1999-10-12 Thread Robin Stevens
9 works faster, I might as well use it even if I can't currently report results. My temporary solution has been to grab 90 days' of work, switch the machines to run as dialup hosts even if they aren't, and wait for someone else to fix it, reporting via the web interface if necessary :-)

Re: Mersenne: Linux error 2250 (was Front-end design)

1999-09-27 Thread Robin Stevens
of mine (pity I had to kill off a process with over 100 days' CPU time to its credit (-: ). One point - there seem to be inconsistencies in the case of some of the source file names, which required either manual changing or use of a FAT partition in order to get mprime

Re: Mersenne: Front-end design

1999-09-23 Thread Robin Stevens
machine has no problems, it's evidently not a case of the server being down. The FAQ mentions a problem on v18 for those using RPC, but I was under the impression I've always been using http... -- Robin Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Merto

Re: Mersenne: Linux VFAT question

1999-06-28 Thread Robin Stevens
ing regular disk writes than risk losing several weeks' (your uptime may vary) work if mprime is not terminated neatly. -- Robin Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Merton College, Oxford OX1 4JD, UK http://www-a

Mersenne: HTML posts

1999-05-19 Thread Robin Stevens
It's incredibly irritating to those with less advanced mail programs, or to those who read the digest. Please pay a visit to http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/listowners/html-off.htm if you don't know how to configure your mail client appropriately. -- ---

Re: Mersenne: cacheable memory

1999-05-17 Thread Robin Stevens
It's probably worth it - 32MB is not a lot these days ;-) -- Robin Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Merton College, Oxford OX1 4JD, UK http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~rejs/ (+44) (0)1865: 726796 (home) 273337 (work) 273390 (fax)Pager: 0839

Mersenne: Performance hit on Pentiums with >64MB?

1999-04-15 Thread Robin Stevens
nable to cache more than 64MB of RAM. How much of a performance hit am I likely to encounter in running Primenet? I've seen figures of 10-30% quoted for various applications. Not that I'm overly bothered - I have a PII contributing rather more these days :-) -- -------