The consensus, as I read the messages, is that all is O.K. Soon I will have Test=9028373,63 Test=999....,63 Test=999....,63 Test=999....,63 and LL factoring will resume on 9028373. I hope this is right as I will be away for a week starting Tuesday, June 6, 2000. All in all, there is and has not been any lost time as the factoring was going to be done anyway. I am running Version 19. The improvements to version 20 seem slight. At 06:23 AM 6/4/00 -0400, you wrote: >I was testing 9,028,373 from a worktodo.ini file that said > >Test=9028373,63 > >That is all the worktodo.ini file said. I use manual prime retrieval and >asked for, and got from George, three new numbers as 9,028,373 was my only >number. > >The worktodo.ini file was changed to > >Test=9028373,63 >Test=new number 1,60 >Test=new number 2,60 >Test=new number 3,60 > >There are line feeds at the end of the ,63 and ,60 so there are no extra >blanks anywhere in the worktodo.ini file. The changes were made while >9,028,373 was running with notepad or one of the other simple MicroSoft >utilities. The changes were tehn saved and the worktodo.ini file has the >four numbers. > >Suddenly, 9028373, which was at 14% done, disappeared!! In its place,.the >P-III (450 MHz) was factoring new number 1 (pass 1 of 16). There is >nothing, nada, zilch, zippo, about the loss of 9028373 in the results file. > >Why? It is true that I briefly shut down as I often do to clear Java files, >but I invariably go to the LL test screen, click for STOP and then click for >EXIT. At startup, the LL testing starts up again automatically (thanks to >some one who gave me fine explicit instructions as to how to do this). I >believe the STOP and then EXIT saves the latest p and q files so I lose only >a few minutes, not up to 1/2 hour or whenever the last p and q files were >saved. > >I have often used Norton Utilities to (a) system check for errors and there >is a persistant error that crops up from playing Java based chess (after 15 >or so games; it takes that many to win just once) and to (b) speed disk, >(another Norton Utilities feature), i.e., reorganize the C drive. But I >have been doing this for MONTHS AND MONTHS while running LL tests (more than >250 done over the years) and have never had an ill effect. > >I will have to restart 9028373 but then, why did it stop? Is this a >microsoft feature (i.e. a bug that in an undocumented yet powerful add on)? > >Also, should I just stop the factoring passes and restart so that I am back >again on prime 9028373? > >The MERSENNE directory where I have all the files and programs has a >p9028373 file, a q9028373 file and a p file for the new number. I'd like to >resume on the p and q files for 9028373, obviously. > >Anybody can respond. Ask for more info if you need it. > _________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
