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No, debian unstable works fine for me. I guess it must be older versions causing the problems.

Just out of interest, why does SoB make DNS calls if you give it an IP rather than sb.pns.net?
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I've been running 1.02 on a number of machines for a while. They only appear to hang when the network goes down or sometimes when the server goes down. I haven't seen any seg faults since getting...

I think there is *absolutely* no point in running at normal priority.

When you ask the computer to do something, it has to execute a certain number of instructions to finish that task. If both...

I know that people like really up to date stats, but I think it'd still be ok if the block length was doubled (or even tripled or quadrupled), I'm submitting a block every hour from my Duron and...

SoB uses George Woltman's FFT libraries, which are insanely well optimised (its almost all in very carefully hand-crafted assembler). They have been worked on over a number of years (about 10 now? ...

The reason is that both threads and processes have priorities. If you set a process to idle, then its threads get set to priority 4, which should be low enough to cause no noticeable problems...

Roughly, multiply by 0.3 to go from X to number of digits, and divide by 0.3 to go from digits to X.
So we are currently at X = 1 400 000, which has 420 000 digits and for 1 million digits you need...

Hi,

I've been having a problem with my clients (v1.0.2) getting stuck, has anyone else been having these problems? Its strange because until a few days ago they'd been working fine for days on...

I'm slightly hesitant at suggesting this after recent accusations of "stealing" k's, but wouldn't it be cool to integrate the Fermat factor search into SoB? Obviously this is outside the current...

How large an n have we sieved to, I thought Phil "only" did up to n = 3 million, which could start causing us problems relatively soon, especially if we keep getting new people. Do we need to start...

The size of k is basically irrelevant when compared to the size of 2^n, so - yes the time taken is completely dependent on the total value, but this is just about independent of k.

The size of k...

It appears to be when the client is about to contact the server for the first time for that exponent. It doesn't happen every time though.

I did aswell, on two separate machines:

[Thu Nov 21 10:45:54 2002] iteration: 240000/969952 (24.74%) k = 33661 n = 969936
[Thu Nov 21 10:47:58 2002] iteration: 250000/969952 (25.77%) k = 33661 ...