Will this P-1 factoring step take place ONLY before a LL test, or will it
also be part of the trial factoring step?
The reason why I'm asking is because one of my machines is a dedicated 486
to work on trial factoring only. It has 16MB RAM. The hard disk is *very*
slow, so when it thrashes, my 486 is essentially rendered useless.
I would really like an option to turn P-1 off in that case.
As for memory, try the GlobalMemoryStatus() call in Windows. 2 of the items
in the structure are dwAvailPhys, and dwAvailVirtual. You can use that
info.
Also, a request:
I also have a dual processor system running GIMPS... therefore I have 2
instances of GIMPS running. Can you detect multiple processors in a future
version?
Thanks,
Dennis
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