Re: Mersenne: Slow iterations

[Dave Mullen]

Yeah, but most virus checkers have a scheduler, whereby it kicks in when the system is "quiet", and scans your hard disk for viruses, innoculates new files etc. If the slowdown is sporadic, and rectifies itself after 5 or 10 minutes, I'd guess this is the case.   Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Luke Welsh To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; GIMPS mailing list Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 11:18 AM Subject: Re: Mersenne: Slow iterations At 09:32 PM 10/9/00 -0400, David M. Weatherell wrote: >Recently, Prime95 started running at 8 seconds per iteration. >When I killed process Alogserv, it went back to running at >.28 seconds per iteration.  What is this process, and how do I >get rid of it?  Thanks. ALOGSERV is part of McAfee Anti-Virus.  It burns virtually zero time on my PC. --Luke _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ      -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt