On Sun, 13 May 2001 20:39:34 -0400, George Woltman wrote:
>At 07:46 PM 5/13/2001 -0400, Nathan Russell wrote:
>>As it stands, I notice that PrimeNet is given assignments only a few
>>tens of thousand of exponents in advance. Is this done so that you
>>have more flexibility, or is it a technical issue with the number of
>>exponents the server can handle?
>
>There is no server limit, nor is there any good reason for my only
>giving the server a few thousand exponents in advance.
>
some months ago I wanted to test 'my lucky number' :-) with Prime95
so I added it manualy to the worktodo.ini file. Everything was OK -
until Prime95 contacted the server and got the 'exponent not assigned
to you' error message. After that the newly added line disappeared
from the worktodo.ini file. Then I tried it with the Advanced->Test
option and with that the line remains in the worktodo.ini but now
I'm the only one who knows that I'm testing that exponent. OK, I saw
on the status page that only 2 exponents were tested in that range
(20400000-25330000), but what if one of these is exactly the one?
Wouldn't it be usefull to allow the server to accept new exponents
if they are 'reasonable'? BTW, what happens when 'AdvancedTests' are
completed? Can the server handle the results?
greetings
Siegmar
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