On Sunday 25 January 2004 01:48 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > You're in the directory the binary is in. You need to run > >'./mprime -m' And run it as user, not root. The first time > >it'll ask you if you want to connect to the mprime server, say > > n, it won't ask again, and the menu will be displayed, choose > > 17. > > So how can I run it as root ?
You can su to root in a teminal. I just tellin you, you don't need to be root, and IMO, I wouldn't run mprime as root. Actually any programs that don't need root, should be run as user. Always. mprime2212 $ ./mprime -m Main Menu 1. Test/Primenet 2. Test/User Information 3. Test/Vacation or Holiday 4. Test/Status 5. Test/Continue 6. Test/Exit 7. Advanced/Test 8. Advanced/Time 9. Advanced/P-1 10. Advanced/ECM 11. Advanced/Priority 12. Advanced/Manual Communication 13. Advanced/Unreserve Exponent 14. Advanced/Quit Gimps 15. Options/CPU 16. Options/Preferences 17. Options/Torture Test 18. Options/Benchmark 19. Help/About 20. Help/About PrimeNet Server Your choice: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your choice: 17 Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer. Please read stress.txt. Hit ^C to end this test. Test 1, 400 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using 1024K FFT length. Test 2, 400 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922943 using 1024K FFT length. | | ...and so on. You can just quit the console it's runnin in. If you use their suggestion, <Ctrl+C>, then you'll be taken back to the menu and need to choose 6 to exit, or another choice. Let mprime run over night, it uses progressively tougher tests, but none will harm hardware, and the program aborts itself anyhow on hardware errors. You can run it while using your computer, but since mprime is "nice'd" it will defer to any other processes. So for best results, let it go overnite while you're not using your system. IE, quit or pause other running programs (no need to stop normal background processes that cron runs). Now FWIW, mprime is a precompiled binary. Normally I avoid running other peoples binaries on my system, But IMO mprime is trustworthy...... if run as _user_ ;) Also, IMO, it's suitable for ready mades and laptops. Particularly since it self aborts on hardware errors in oc'd, weak, or marginal systems. No need to monitor temps. It definitely should be run overnite before attempting cpuburn. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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