I've tried quite a few times to upload it again, with no success.

When I upload the file, the screen just sits there until I get a partial screen returned, like it times out. Everything else seems to working fine, other than the database not being available off and on this morning.

[QUOTE=drh;261399]I've tried quite a few times to upload it again, with no success.

When I upload the file, the screen just sits there until I get a partial screen returned, like it times out. Everything else seems to working fine, other than the database not being available off and on this morning.[/QUOTE]

Don't upload the whole file again & again!! Just copy the single line and paste it into the manual upload form

[QUOTE=axn;261401]Don't upload the whole file again & again!! Just copy the single line and paste it into the manual upload form[/QUOTE]

After the first upload, I deleted all the other lines, so I was left with only the two lines related to the factor ...

M76120789 has a factor: 5666251615825315865351
found 1 factor(s) for M76120789 from 2^72 to 2^73 [mfaktc 0.16p1-Win barrett79_mul32]

I'll try to cut and paste it into the form and see if that works.

[QUOTE=drh;261403]After the first upload, I deleted all the other lines, so I was left with only the two lines related to the factor ...

M76120789 has a factor: 5666251615825315865351
found 1 factor(s) for M76120789 from 2^72 to 2^73 [mfaktc 0.16p1-Win barrett79_mul32]

I'll try to cut and paste it into the form and see if that works.[/QUOTE]

Still no luck using the form ... same result, partial screen returned.

[QUOTE=drh;261404]Still no luck using the form ... same result, partial screen returned.[/QUOTE]

Hmmm... Apparently, the issue is at the server itself. I guess you'll have to wait till it is up & running again. See: [url]http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=15602[/url]

[QUOTE=axn;261405]Hmmm... Apparently, the issue is at the server itself. I guess you'll have to wait till it is up & running again. See: [URL]http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=15602[/URL][/QUOTE]

I'll try it once in a while throughout the day.

Thanks,
Doug

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[QUOTE=axn;261405]Hmmm... Apparently, the issue is at the server itself. I guess you'll have to wait till it is up & running again. See: [url]http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=15602[/url][/QUOTE]

Yep, there's definitely an issue with submission of factor results. No factor results work perfectly.

I have now 2x factor results ready for submission when it gets back. I guess we'll have to wait until the server admins get a chance to look at it.

-- Craig

The server issue is now fixed...exact cause unspecified.....

Got to thinking about how to structure the mfaktc interaction with primenet tonight, looking at how my "results.txt" gets hand marked-up about what's been reported or not.

The conclusion is that the output side should be a queue -- basically, a machine-edited version of what is in results.txt (call it results.queue) that the primenet thread/task looks at to decide what to tell the server, and deletes the front of when it is done. This allows mfaktc to be stopped and started as needed. I'm sure Prime95 can tell me how big the largest exponent I can report on is, so anything done for Operation Billion Digits can be dropped and reported manually. In addition, when the primenet task succeeds in reporting a result, it writes a line about the success to results.txt, unless a key tells it not to. Finally, this is in addition to any sort of log that the primenet task might create detailing all of its travails.

This has the huge advantage of de-coupling the problem of input from the problem of output.

[QUOTE=Christenson;261664]Got to thinking about how to structure the mfaktc interaction with primenet tonight, looking at how my "results.txt" gets hand marked-up about what's been reported or not.

The conclusion is that the output side should be a queue -- basically, a machine-edited version of what is in results.txt (call it results.queue) that the primenet thread/task looks at to decide what to tell the server, and deletes the front of when it is done. This allows mfaktc to be stopped and started as needed. I'm sure Prime95 can tell me how big the largest exponent I can report on is, so anything done for Operation Billion Digits can be dropped and reported manually. In addition, when the primenet task succeeds in reporting a result, it writes a line about the success to results.txt, unless a key tells it not to. Finally, this is in addition to any sort of log that the primenet task might create detailing all of its travails.

This has the huge advantage of de-coupling the problem of input from the problem of output.[/QUOTE]

Prime95 uses a "prime.spl" (spool file) for the results. This file should (must) be secured against modifications.
Human readable results.txt and machine readable spool file is a good idea. For mfaktc one idea would be a function which adds a result to the spool file with some additional data if the result was the last one (last bit level) or not for the specified exponent. If it is the last result it is save to sent the result.

Oliver