I have a machine that was close to finishing its first factoring assigment. It was 94.5% complete on the last (to 65 bits) pass. I estimate the remainder would take about 3 to 4 hours to complete. I started up a kids program for my son, he played with it for about 15 minutes and then exited. I was very surprised to note that the factoring assignment reported as complete with no factors found, and without the display going past 94.5% (each "tick" was about 0.08%).
I've never noticed a factoring assignment end early without finding a factor before, but I haven't run very many. I don't know if this is normal or if the kids program (heavy on animated graphics and sound, like most kids program) caused a glitch in Prime95. It's an AMD K6-2 processor, and I do note that Prime95 way overestimates the amount of time it takes to do factoring assignments on it, but I don't think that should cause this oddity. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
