Yesterday I started up sage 4.6.2 on one of our compute servers, started the notebook interface, and connected to from firefox on my workstation. I started up a notebook session, where I constructed a particular elliptic curve over GF(2^351), and a point on it. I (unwisely) tried
P1.order() When it didn't come back after 30 seconds or so, I realized that I was implicitly asking Sage to compute the order of the curve and then factor that order, so I tried to kill it by using Interrupt, which didn't work, so I restarted the worksheet. However, at that point things became non-responsive. I eventually ended up logging onto the server and stopping sage. About an hour later the computer administrator came into my office saying that I had nearly brought the compute server to its knees because I had started 1300 processes (all running something in the sage directory)! Has anybody seen anything like this before? Victor -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
