Here is one (lonely?) vote to set the defaults rather high. I have some
over-generalizations that encourage you to let the system manage memory
itself. I expect that Mersenne generally runs on the fastest machines, which
tend to have lots of memory. I think it's great we can put it to use! If
For a machine with 64 MB and up, defaulting to ON during night hours
would seem OK
to me (I have 144 MB).
However, I assume that it will be possible to specify (change) what
hours are the
ON hours. I suppose that midnight to 06:00 would be fine for most
people, as a
default.
It should be
On 31 Jan 00, at 11:38, George Woltman wrote:
GIMPS has always had a good reputation for not interfering with
your normal work. To preserve GIMPS' reputation, I'm thinking of
implementing the following. In the Options/CPU dialog, prime95 will let
you select the maximum amount of memory
However, I assume that it will be possible to specify (change) what
hours are the
ON hours. I suppose that midnight to 06:00 would be fine for most
people, as a
default.
This probably depends on your distro. Red Hat and Mandrake run their crontabs
between 4 and 5 in the morning, so that hour may
At 20:58 31.01.00 -0500, David Campeau wrote:
If you always leave 20% of ram to the system to work with, there should not
be a problem.
I wonder how you're going to find out that there's anything left.
*ALL* of my NT systems routinely run with a commit charge around double
physical memory
Hi all,
I'm working on prime95 version 20. The important new feature
is a P-1 factoring step prior to a Lucas-Lehmer test. The P-1 factoring
step has a 3-5% chance of finding a factor at a cost of 2-4% of an LL test.
The net effect is we speed up GIMPS' throughput by a percent or two
At 11:38 AM 1/31/00 -0500, George Woltman wrote:
Would we be better off disabling P-1 factoring unless the user explicitly
activates it (knowing that most users won't read enough to turn it on)?
That sounds like a good idea to me. Giving up 24-48MB would interfere with
some people's work,
This is one vote for memory conumsion by default stays at 4ish MB, and only
if you change it on the advanced menu will it use more.
I know too many people who never read the docs and will have no idea why
their computer "got slow" when they put on ver. 20 and will just want it
taken off.
Louis
George
Here is another vote for P-1 to default to off unless it
is explicitly enabled using the Advanced Menu like ECM.
Regards
Alan Powell
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GIMPS has always had a good reputation for not interfering with
your normal work. To preserve GIMPS' reputation, I'm thinking of
implementing
the following. In the Options/CPU dialog, prime95 will let you select the
maximum
amount of memory the program can use and the hours of the day it
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