Unreserving exponents(these exponents haven't been done)

[jasong]

I keep getting errors with Prime95, but not much else. I'm unreserving the following exponents, and will stop running Prime95 until I figure out what's going on.(I may consider double checks)

The following exponents still need to be run.

Pfactor=40018607,68.000000,4137260
Pfactor=40018609,68.000000,4137260
Pfactor=40018639,65,0
Pfactor=40018669,65,0
Pfactor=40018907,65,0

[harlee]

I'm getting the same type of errors with Prime95 v24.14. Could it a bug???

[harlee]

These are my observations with this problem.

By default, Prime95 v24.14 wants to trial factor these exponents to 68 bits before starting P-1 testing. The trial factoring runs fine and when finished, updates the Pfactore statement as shown below and then crashes.

Pfactor=40018607,68.000000,4137260

I tried rewriting the Pfactor statement

Pfactor=40018639,65,0

to be

factor=40018639,65
Pfactor=40018639,68,0

but the same thing happens. Did notice that the crash happens if there is a Pfactor statement int the worktodo.ini file for the exponent that was trial factored. I've mixed factor statements and Pfactor statements without any crashes as long as the exponents are different

factor=40019467,65
factor=40019489,65
Pfactor=40019227,68,0

[jasong]

I don't know whether it's a bug or not, but I do know that I am now running a Prime95 torture test on both cpus for about 3 days to see if it's my cpus.

Please post if you're positive it's a bug.

Edit: Reread your post and decided to bring my computer back online, although on a different project. Thanks for the heads-up, harlee.

(You wouldn't happen to be black, would you? I have a black cat named Harle, and think it would be really cool if I met someone online with the same name and the same "race"[technically it's fur, rather than skin color] as my cat)

[harlee]

I posted the problem in the Software forum and "Prime95" issued a response: http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=6801

Harlee was the name of the kids pet rabbit. She passed away almost 11 years ago, but I still remember that she had two different eye colors (one brown and one blue). I'm using the different pets names as the account and computer name.

[jasong]

Originally Posted by harlee

Harlee was the name of the kids pet rabbit. She passed away almost 11 years ago, but I still remember that she had two different eye colors (one brown and one blue). I'm using the different pets names as the account and computer name.

Even better.

[jasong]

If I may ask a possibly stupid question:

Wouldn´t it be easier to make it so there´s one line that JUST tells it to trial-factor, and another line that JUST tells it to P-1? Even if you only have a Gig of hard drive space left, there´s still plenty of room for a worktodo file that´s doubled in size.

[harlee]

Tried that and Prime95 still crashes (see the 19 Dec 06, 03:34 AM posting).

If you want to do the two lines then don't add the Pfactor line for a given exponent until after that Factor line is completed and deleted from the worktodo.ini file.