Time to complete information

JuanTutors · 2004-06-27, 18:12

Can a feature be added to Prime95 that will tell you how long trial factoring and P-1 testing will be expected to last?

The best I've been able to do is wait a few minutes for the program to give me some data and pulling out a calculator to extrapolate from there.

S80780 · 2004-06-27, 21:07

The estimated end dates for Trial-Factoring (in case that no factor is found) and LL-Testing/DCing can be looked up in the Status-dialog (under Test -> Status). I'm not sure about P-1-Testing via Pminus1=... entry in worktodo.ini, but this is easily tried out.

Benjamin

JuanTutors · 2004-06-27, 21:47

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Originally Posted by S80780

The estimated end dates for Trial-Factoring (in case that no factor is found) and LL-Testing/DCing can be looked up in the Status-dialog (under Test -> Status). I'm not sure about P-1-Testing via Pminus1=... entry in worktodo.ini, but this is easily tried out.

Benjamin

The thing is that the expected end date under Test-->Status increases with the amount of time that the trial factoring has run. It doesn't add the total time that trial factoring would run assuming it does not find a factor. The same goes for P-1 testing.

S80780 · 2004-06-28, 10:47

Hmm... I think this is because of a discrepancy between the "Hours per day this program will run:" value under "Options" -> "CPU..." and your actual up-time. You can change this value accordingly to get a better approximation. On the long run, this value is multiplied by a factor between 1/1.000 and 4 depending on your average up-time since its last change to give presumably better predictions.

Benjamin

2004-06-27, 18:12	#1
JuanTutors Mar 2004 7²×11 Posts	Time to complete information Can a feature be added to Prime95 that will tell you how long trial factoring and P-1 testing will be expected to last? The best I've been able to do is wait a few minutes for the program to give me some data and pulling out a calculator to extrapolate from there.

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2004-06-27, 21:07	#2
S80780 Jan 2003 far from M40 1111101₂ Posts	The estimated end dates for Trial-Factoring (in case that no factor is found) and LL-Testing/DCing can be looked up in the Status-dialog (under Test -> Status). I'm not sure about P-1-Testing via Pminus1=... entry in worktodo.ini, but this is easily tried out. Benjamin

2004-06-28, 10:47	#4
S80780 Jan 2003 far from M40 5³ Posts	Hmm... I think this is because of a discrepancy between the "Hours per day this program will run:" value under "Options" -> "CPU..." and your actual up-time. You can change this value accordingly to get a better approximation. On the long run, this value is multiplied by a factor between 1/1.000 and 4 depending on your average up-time since its last change to give presumably better predictions. Benjamin