On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Tom Goulet wrote:
> Greetings all,
Greetings to you as well.
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> Also, I can get the client to segfault at least two different ways.
Let me guess, low memony cause segfault at startup?
This one has been announced as being fixed when v19 comes for Linux.
>
> The 'packet' sizes are very large...I have lost weeks of work due to
> power failures and friends.
Well, that depends a bit on how you look at it.
In d.net, I think the smallest 'packet' is 2^28 numbers to test, whereas
in gimps, the 'packet' size is 1(one) number, it's difficult to get much
smaller. :)
>
> I also accidentally ran two or three instances of the client, and it complained
> about it's work file or something, and delete it. 89% complete doing whatever
> it was doing, and it restarted at 0.
Since I use RedHat, I avoid this by writing an init.d script to start and
stop mprime, this handles locking and such, and as long as that's what I
use to start/stop mprime, I'm safe.
Since it's so small I've taken the liberty to attach it, do with it what
you want.
>
> So anyways, my comments can be summed up in that it isn't easy for the newbie
> (even the very nerdy types like myself) to find their way around the gimps
> project and become efficient contributers.
Personally I found installing and running it to be an extremely smooth
operation, to the point where it takes less that 2 minutes to install on a
new machine, including configuration, after which I just forget about it.
>
> Now, distributed.net (yes, I hear some moans) has a very slick interface, and
> helpful documentation and navigable websites and easy to understand overall
> structure. (I will be writing another letter to dnet sometime soon...
> complaining that they have all these neat things and are wasting them.)
As George said, this is a natural consequence of having one programmer,
and one who is mostly interested in making the program go faster.
At least with version 17.1 you could get the source and play around with
an interface of your own, but that's another thread:)
>
> Hopefully this explains to some of you why the gimps is not growing very fast.
I don't want gimps to grow too fast, 'course then all the small numbers
will be tested, and I'll have to wait even longer for each result:)
>
> Please forgive me if I was rude, responses are welcome. :)
I didn't see any rudeness, only politely written opinions, which is
something completely different.
>
> TomG
>
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