> Me as well. From what I understand the breakpoints to be, my K6-2 400
> would be put on first time LL's by default. I tried it on DC's, but the
> FPU is so poor that it is really only suited to factoring. My 466 Celeron
> could do LL's very slowly, but given the relative balance between LL's
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ah, but, factoring is actually moving ahead anyway in terms of
> CPU years required for LL to catch up - because larger exponents
> take more time to LL test. My impression is that the gap between
> the head of the factoring assignment queue and th
Another thing people might want to consider...
If you have a dual processor box, have one of the prime threads doing
factoring while the other does LL tests.
I've been meaning to do that for a while now, and I guess I might get
around to that next week. I think most of the machines I have testi
On 17 Feb 2002, at 17:54, Russel Brooks wrote:
> Am I interpreting this thread correctly? That more factoring is
> needed? My climb up the LL top producers is starting to stall
> so maybe it's time to switch to factoring.
I'm quite sure there's no need to panic!
So far as I'm concerned, I've
At 12:32 PM 2/17/2002 +0100, Kevin Dorekens wrote:
>I'm one of the victims of these hacker attacks and I've decided to
>continue for double-checking purposes. Now I do have a question though.
>Will my work time still be credited in my account report?
I don't think so. However, just email me wit
Am I interpreting this thread correctly? That more factoring is
needed? My climb up the LL top producers is starting to stall
so maybe it's time to switch to factoring.
I know the LL tests drive the FPU hard, what about factoring?
Cheers... Russ
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On 16 Feb 2002, at 12:26, Mary Conner wrote:
> Trial factoring is well ahead of LL testing, but the gap is closing.
> Yesterday was the first day in a long time where the net number of
> checkouts for factoring exceeded those for first time LL's. That is due
> to the fact that one team is havi
Hi all,
I've joined this list yesterday and I've been reading up a bit in the
archives, but I couldn't figure out the answer to this one.
> When they report a result, your assignment will
> "disappear" from the active assignments list. GIMPS, of course, can
use
> your result for double-checking
