mersenneforum.org - View Single Post - what's the point of "Iterations between results file outputs"?

Dubslow · 2012-08-01, 18:20

It just prints your basic status report line (e.g. for me "[Worker #1 Aug 1 13:04:06] Iteration: 1110000 / 26179411 [4.2399%]. Per iteration time: 12.817 ms.") every x iterations. I imagine it would be useful if someone didn't have access to stdout, but then again, if they're setting that option via the GUI menu, then they can clearly see the stdout.

Another potential use might be to use some external script/program to monitor progress, but again, I can't think of a use case...

2012-08-01, 18:20	#2
Dubslow Basketry That Evening! "Bunslow the Bold" Jun 2011 40<A<43 -89<O<-88 3×29×83 Posts	It just prints your basic status report line (e.g. for me "[Worker #1 Aug 1 13:04:06] Iteration: 1110000 / 26179411 [4.2399%]. Per iteration time: 12.817 ms.") every x iterations. I imagine it would be useful if someone didn't have access to stdout, but then again, if they're setting that option via the GUI menu, then they can clearly see the stdout. Another potential use might be to use some external script/program to monitor progress, but again, I can't think of a use case... Last fiddled with by Dubslow on 2012-08-01 at 18:21 Reason: s/window/GUI menu/; s/<i forget>/the stdout/