PRPNet 3.0.0 Released

[rogue]

Originally Posted by Mini-Geek

The new version looks great so far.
I like the added info to the group stats.

Thanks for the compliment.

I have been taking advantage of the change when sorting by age. I'm referring to the add of decimal length as the tie breaker. I'm using this option to help crunch through lots of the lower Sierpinski/Riesel conjectures. Once the server was up and running, I could look at the stats page to see how many tests are left, then I could reserve more conjecture, run the script, sieve, then load them into the server. With sorting by age, the server would complete the oldest conjectures in the database before starting newer ones.

[gd_barnes]

Originally Posted by rogue

Thanks for the compliment.

I have been taking advantage of the change when sorting by age. I'm referring to the add of decimal length as the tie breaker. I'm using this option to help crunch through lots of the lower Sierpinski/Riesel conjectures. Once the server was up and running, I could look at the stats page to see how many tests are left, then I could reserve more conjecture, run the script, sieve, then load them into the server. With sorting by age, the server would complete the oldest conjectures in the database before starting newer ones.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Nice work!

[rogue]

Originally Posted by gd_barnes

Necessity is the mother of invention. Nice work!

Not exactly. I'm taking advantage of the solution to a problem that Max ran into. Typically I would order by decimal length alone, but in this case I didn't want all of the conjectures to finish at approximately the same time.

[mdettweiler]

Originally Posted by rogue

No. If there were any compatibility issues, I would have stated them.

Cool, thanks. (Just wanted to make sure. ) I'll upgrade my personal server shortly and, assuming I don't run into any problems, the rest of the servers should follow soon after.

Edit: Upgrade complete. So far, so good--I concur with Mini-Geek, I like the improvements to the web pages. And I must say, I do like the splash of yellow on Sierpinski/Riesel mode pages (it may well be present on other modes as well--S/R is the only one I've tried so far). Yellow always was my favorite color.

[rogue]

Originally Posted by mdettweiler

Cool, thanks. (Just wanted to make sure. ) I'll upgrade my personal server shortly and, assuming I don't run into any problems, the rest of the servers should follow soon after.

Edit: Upgrade complete. So far, so good--I concur with Mini-Geek, I like the improvements to the web pages. And I must say, I do like the splash of yellow on Sierpinski/Riesel mode pages (it may well be present on other modes as well--S/R is the only one I've tried so far). Yellow always was my favorite color.

The colors are needed more on that page because you can easily see the progress visually. I don't see it being quite so beneficial on other server types.

[rogue]

Here is a summary of the changes from 3.3.1 to 3.3.2:

Client only:

• Fixed a crash that can occur when unable to connect to a server
• Fixed a behavioral issue where the client would shut down when it tries to return completed work when starting up, but is unable to connect to the server. The client will only shut down if some work units have not been completed and the user selects the "report and abort" option.

You can d/l it from here.

[rogue]

The patch I introduced for 3.3.2 for clients unable to connect to servers was done incorrectly. I have redone the patch for 3.3.3.

You can d/l it from here.

[rogue]

Here are the changes for 3.3.4:

In all programs I modified the log to use local time instead of GMT.
In the server I fixed a bug with sending e-mail, which hasn't been working since 3.3.0. I also fixed an issue that sometimes leads to empty timestamps in the log.

You can d/l it from here.

[mdettweiler]

Originally Posted by rogue

Here are the changes for 3.3.4:

In all programs I modified the log to use local time instead of GMT.

Hmm...I tried running prpadmin just now and I got this output right off the bat:

[2010-07-21 00:12:05 GMT] PRPnet Admin application v3.3.4 started.
[2010-07-21 00:12:05 GMT] Configured to connect to 127.0.0.1:7101

Note that when this was run the system time would have been 20:12:05 EDT, so it wasn't just a mislabeling but really was reporting GMT. This was on Windows; I haven't yet tried the new release on Linux.

[rogue]

Originally Posted by mdettweiler

Hmm...I tried running prpadmin just now and I got this output right off the bat:

[2010-07-21 00:12:05 GMT] PRPnet Admin application v3.3.4 started.
[2010-07-21 00:12:05 GMT] Configured to connect to 127.0.0.1:7101

Note that when this was run the system time would have been 20:12:05 EDT, so it wasn't just a mislabeling but really was reporting GMT. This was on Windows; I haven't yet tried the new release on Linux.

I'll remove the 'GMT' and re-release.

[mdettweiler]

Originally Posted by rogue

I'll remove the 'GMT' and re-release.

How easy would it be to have it substitute "GMT" for the appropriate local timezone abbreviation (for instance, "EDT" in my case)? Removing the text entirely would throw off my parsing scripts; not that it's too hard for me to adjust my scripts to compensate, though including the local timezone information would make it more informative when trying to convert log timestamps across time zones.