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

2000-04-20 Thread Nathan Russell
>From: George Woltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "David Campeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #4 (will the beta never end?) >Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:43:46 -0400 > >Hi, > >At 07:47 AM 4/20/00 -0400,

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

2000-04-20 Thread Nathan Russell
>From: George Woltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "David Campeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #4 (will the beta never end?) >Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:43:46 -0400 > >Hi, > >At 07:47 AM 4/20/00 -0400,

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

2000-04-20 Thread George Woltman
Hi, At 07:47 AM 4/20/00 -0400, David Campeau wrote: >Seeing that not every time a stage 1 gcd will result in a factor found, are >we not better to wait until the end of stage 2? This way, we could factor >deeper. Brian Beesley's timings showed that running the Stage 1 GCD will save time in the l

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

2000-04-20 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 20 Apr 00, at 7:47, David Campeau wrote: > Seeing that not every time a stage 1 gcd will result in a factor found, > are we not better to wait until the end of stage 2? This way, we could > factor deeper. > > Perhaps this could be yet another option? Maybe I'm guilty here; the very first pre

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

2000-04-20 Thread David Campeau
Hi all, Seeing that not every time a stage 1 gcd will result in a factor found, are we not better to wait until the end of stage 2? This way, we could factor deeper. Perhaps this could be yet another option? some preleminary data (on my machine at home): Total P-1 test = 91 Stage 1 factor = 2 S

Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #3

2000-04-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
>A question to all you linux users with modems: I assume that the >/proc/net/route file exists when you are not connected. Let me know >if this is not the case (I'll need to change the default setting of >RouteRequired above). I have a modem and an Ethernet card on one box. The file exists whe

Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #3

2000-04-16 Thread Henrik Olsen
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Martijn Kruithof wrote: > 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: > > > > > > > > >

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 Henrik Olsen
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 sprime, as well as tried > > > > with m

Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #3

2000-04-15 Thread Henrik Olsen
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, 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 hav

Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #3

2000-04-15 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
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 sprime, as well as tried > > > with mprime 19.0.2 . None of them where able to detect the network as

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 George Woltman
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; it simply >always returns TRUE. Looks

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 #3

2000-04-15 Thread Will Edgington
Brian J. Beesley writes: 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 on a machine running Mandrake Linux, kernel version

Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #3

2000-04-15 Thread Brian J. Beesley
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 on a machine running Mandrake Linux, kernel version > 2.2.14-15mdksecure, probably due to

Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #3

2000-04-15 Thread Henrik Olsen
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 on a machine running Mandrake Linux

Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #3

2000-04-14 Thread Henrik Olsen
Hi, 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 on a machine running Mandrake Linux, kernel version 2.2.14-15mdksecure, probably due to /proc/net not being readable by non-root on suc

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

2000-04-13 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 13 Apr 00, at 7:34, Martijn Kruithof wrote: > 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=264000

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

2000-04-13 Thread George Woltman
Hi, At 07:34 AM 4/13/00 +0200, Martijn Kruithof wrote: >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=2640

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 P

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 beta

2000-03-17 Thread Nathan Russell
>From: "Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "George Woltman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Mersenne: V20 beta >Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:37:07 -0500 > >I

RE: Mersenne: V20 beta

2000-03-17 Thread Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy
I just upgraded and am now getting an 2250 error when attempting to contact the primenet servers. Am I doing something wrong??? G-Man _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- htt

RE: Mersenne: V20 beta

2000-03-17 Thread Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy
> 1) The program now does some P-1 factoring prior to running first time > and double-checking Lucas-Lehmer tests. This will increase overall > GIMPS throughput. If you install version 20 in the middle Does this mean that the exponent's that we've already done factoring on will be re