Re: Mersenne: Torture test allocating hundreds of MB?

2002-10-30 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 02:34, Nathan Russell wrote: Thanks to everyone who responded. In this case, it's a bug in my thinking. I had the memory usage set to the max allowable, because I wanted P-1 to succeed whenever possible, even if it inconvenienced me - I do most of my academic

Re: Mersenne: Torture test allocating hundreds of MB?

2002-10-29 Thread George Woltman
At 02:08 PM 10/28/2002 -0500, Nathan Russell wrote: However, when I tried to run a torture test to verify that everything was okay, I saw Prime95 suddenly allocate over 200 MB of memory for no apparent reason, and the computer began thrashing. Late version 22 executables use lots of memory to

Re: Mersenne: Torture test allocating hundreds of MB?

2002-10-29 Thread Nathan Russell
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:02:34 -, Daran wrote: 2) To better stress main memory, the torture test will now use up to the amount of memory specified in the Options/CPU dialog box. If you haven't allowed it to use this much memory, then it's a bug, otherwise its a feature. Thanks to

Re: Mersenne: Torture test allocating hundreds of MB?

2002-10-29 Thread George Woltman
At 09:34 PM 10/29/2002 -0500, Nathan Russell wrote: I had the memory usage set to the max allowable, because I wanted P-1 to succeed whenever possible, even if it inconvenienced me - I do most of my academic work via VNC into timeshares, so it isn't a big deal if the system thrashes. Is that

Mersenne: Torture test allocating hundreds of MB?

2002-10-28 Thread Nathan Russell
Hi folks, I had some problems with unexpected system crashes after bringing my computer back to school, I think becuase something was knocked out of alignment - it seems to be gone now. However, when I tried to run a torture test to verify that everything was okay, I saw Prime95 suddenly