Re: [sage-support] Why does my little program bring my department's server to its knees?

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Ghitza
Hi, On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 08:08:13 -0800 (PST), Ben Linowitz wrote: > I wrote a little program which almost brought my department's server > down and would like to know why. Here is a brief description of the > program [I can reproduce the actual code if necessary]: That would indeed be helpful.

[sage-support] Why does my little program bring my department's server to its knees?

2010-03-03 Thread Ben Linowitz
I wrote a little program which almost brought my department's server down and would like to know why. Here is a brief description of the program [I can reproduce the actual code if necessary]: 1. Choose an odd prime p which is less than 100 2. Let a and b be small multiples of p (each no more than