> George: v20, *and* the PrimeNet server, ought not allow any one machine
to
> keep more than ten times its average communication frequency in exponents
> queued, and no more than 60 days no matter what -- requests for additional
> exponents when the server knows that that machine already has two months'
> work ought to be denied. If a machine reports in every 3 days, let it
> keep no more than 30 days. If it reports in daily, let it keep ten
> days. By stopping exponent hogs from locking up hundreds of exponents
> just because they like the small ones, GIMPS will reach its goals
> (milestones, proving M37, etc), much faster.
I think the 10 intervals might be a bit too draconian. I have most of my
systems set to check in every two days, its a quick and easy way to keep
track of the servers I don't directly monitor. A half dozen of my machines
are various lab computers which sit around idle 99% of the time, and don't
even have their consoles turned on. By your standards, 20 days would be a
cutoff... Well, many of these machines are pentium 120s and stuff that take
a bit over 20 days to do a LL test. Sure, they are slow. But they are
steady. Of the 13 machines I have running currently, only 3 or 4 of them
are faster than 200MHz.
-jrp
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