Well, I got kinda bored with regular tests so I decided to try out sieving for a while.
I did my reading beforehand and I think I basically got the hang of this. The only question I have is this: What is a good starting range to reserve?
What confuses me, is that I see widely varying ranges being reserved.
Some ppl just reserve small ranges (eg 433000-433200 or 490000-490020) and some others much larger (eg 435000-450000 or 460000-480000)
I am intending to use an Athlon XP 3000+ on this and I went on and reserved the 490100-491000 range (seemed to be the first free one...) but now I'm worried whether I reserved a good initial range (would n't like it to last for 1 day or 1 month)
Any insights on this subject? What relation do the reported kp/s have with the speed through a range? My machine reports numbers from 470-610 during it's first half hour on the job (using latest 0.42 proth_sieve for Windows)
Can the ETA be deduced from this somehow?
Don't me if I asked something stupid or reserved the wrong range, I am still trying to understand the concept of sieving properly