[QUOTE=3.14159;227301]That's strange. The GIMPS site works just fine for me.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=CRGreathouse;227304][url]http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/mersenne.org[/url][/QUOTE]
It's working for me now. I didn't think to check downforeveryoneorjustme while it was down.

At most, I can have three searches that are running at their fastest. Or else there are severe slowdowns.

[QUOTE=CRGreathouse]I hope you got whatever information you needed.
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I did. There's no need for implicit insults anyway.

[QUOTE=3.14159;227306]At most, I can have three searches that are running at their fastest. Or else there are severe slowdowns.[/QUOTE]

This will depend mostly on your processor (and what settings you use). If you have a quad-core processor and enough non-sieve foreground tasks to fill one core (or N cores and enough other tasks to fill N-3 cores) then you'll get slowdown running more than 3 sieves just from lack of cycles. If you have large sieves that are in L3, and your processor has a shared L3, then once that gets filled you get a serious slowdown (probably worse than the above 25% slowdown; this one might be a 70% slowdown depending on how much spills out).

I don't have code for vk handy, but if you'll post your processor and the vk code I can tell you which of these is likely the problem (or if it's something else).

[QUOTE=3.14159;227307]I did. There's no need for implicit insults anyway.[/QUOTE]

I don't know why you interpret that as an insult. (You seem quick to take umbrage.) You posted something that made no sense to me (just as if you had posted "elephants have four legs": true, I suppose, but what are you telling me?). I asked for clarification, and you told me more things that seemed unrelated (that all members of order [i]Proboscidea[/i], which includes elephants, are quadrupeds). Rather than ask for further clarification, I simply stated that I hoped you found what you needed: if you didn't, then you'd surely clarify what you needed rather than what you said, which is what I wanted to know.

Apparently you found out what you wanted to know. I'm glad. I still don't know what that is, but now I don't have to care.

Anywho:

Sieved to 10[sup]12[/sup] for k * 756[sup]9570[/sup] + 1, and currently sieving for k * 4999[sup]5260[/sup] + 1 and k * 1296[sup]9256[/sup] + 1

Found the 28170-digit prime 570331 * 2[sup]93560[/sup] + 1

And, update on the placing: If I am to find a prime, it would now be [B]729th[/B] place. By the time I do find one, I might have dipped into the 1000s.

The minimum for the top 5000 is now 161k digits. Ouch to everyone who barely failed.

yeah i just downloaded prime95 to do something with all the downtime my computer (I did before I just find my PC too slow regardless of what I help with.)

right now I got 2 worker running with over 2900 Mb of ram and it's going at about .1% every 17 seconds with other stuff running.

[QUOTE=science_man_88]yeah i just downloaded prime95 to do something with all the downtime my computer (I did before I just find my PC too slow regardless of what I help with.)

right now I got 2 worker running with over 2900 Mb of ram and it's going at about .1% every 17 seconds with other stuff running[/QUOTE]

I can't run p95 with the sieving for the primes and the testing running at the same time. It slows the testing down to shit, and I can't run vk in PARI either, because it would slow things down severely as well. I got a 35% slowdown when using vk. (However, this is experienced whenever deep sieving using vk. It does no harm up until the 10[sup]7[/sup] range.)

Not to mention, the network is failing as well, which is why I don't post often anymore.

14-15% done both workers now. at this rate I'll never finish before my sister takes over my computer when she comes down to nag me about noise lol.

[QUOTE=science_man_88]14-15% done both workers now. at this rate I'll never finish before my sister takes over my computer when she comes down to nag me about noise lol.
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You'd never finish, because you would be assigned a random exponent every time you closed p95.

At the moment, my interest is personal records. Currently my personal record is 77285 digits, and I'm looking for either 119000 or 257920 digits.