On Monday 22 April 2002 14:19, Jeff Woods wrote: [... snip ...] > >2 pcs. My new system has an AMD Athalon 1400mhz > >processor and has been crunching the numbers in about 3 > >weeks or so and my per iteration time has always been > >around 0.098 to 0.099, Since I got my newest number > >(33238643), My per iteration time has gone up to 0.250 > >to 0.259 and my status tells me it wont finish until > >August 12th. Thats almost 4 months, any suggestions? > > That's about right for that processor on a number that size. You seem to > have set the choice for which work to "money-awarded" winners if a prime is > found, i.e. 10 million digits or more.
Well - the server seems to have been fouled up most of yesterday (Sun 21st) - perhaps it issued a 10M assignment because it hadn't anything else left at the time? > > >Should I or can I go to advanced menu and Unreserve the > >exponent and get another one? Up to you. Personally I think you need a lot of patience and/or a P4 processor to run 10M assignments. (Yes, I've done a few...) Regards Brian Beesley _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
