Oops... mistakes happen though. :) Out of my 16 factoring exponents above 20,500,000, I only found 2 that had been reassigned. And they weren't the current exponents anyway... I just forced those machines to check-in and it released them and grabbed new ones just fine. Most of my machines are set to check in every 4 days anyway, so it wouldn't have been too big of a deal.
I would suggest to anyone else that they should make all their factoring clients check in right now to clear out any such exponents that got moved around. Aaron > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mersenne-invalid- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of George Woltman > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Mersenne: My numbers have been re-assigned to someone else... > > At 10:44 AM 10/4/2002 +0100, Barry Stokes wrote: > >When I was checking my individual account page thing, I noticed that > several > >of the numbers I was supposed to be factoring didn't appear in my list. I > >then checked the "Hourly World Test Status, Assignments Report" file, and > >found that the numbers I had have now been assigned to other people... > >Anyone got any ideas as > >to why this is happening? > > Oops, I blew it. > > I mentioned a few days ago that we are having trouble with version 18 > factoring clients grabbing exponents and not processing them. Scott is > working on a server fix. In the meantime, I've been locating these > exponents > and putting them back in the pool. Last night, I erred and freed up the > wrong set of exponents (I reran a macro that was a few days old rather > than > running the new macro). > > There is no way for me to undo the damage I have done. Sorry. > > To avoid duplicate work, check your worktodo.ini file for assignments > above > 20,540,000. Then look at your individual account report. If the exponent > appears > in your worktodo.ini file and not in your individual > account report, then delete it from your worktodo.ini file. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
