Aliqueit.exe discussion

[Andi47]

Originally Posted by bsquared

That belongs to yafu, actually. It's generated if my squfof routine detects an infinite loop. What version of yafu are you using? 1.08 had a fix for this, I thought.

- ben.

It is 1.08.

[Joshua2]

So that nfs hasn't finished yet, and I think it should have. I caught it having some errors, are these normal or what do I do?

[Andi47]

Originally Posted by Joshua2

So that nfs hasn't finished yet, and I think it should have. I caught it having some errors, are these normal or what do I do?

I think you need to kill and redo the process.

The errors show that you either do not have the cat.exe file at all, or you do not have specified where it is.

After killing the process, do:

1.) Make sure that you have got the cat.exe and grep.exe files both in the same folder.
2.) If you don't have these files, you can download the Linux utilities, containing these two files, here.
3.) Open your FactMsieve.pl file (for editing) and find the line $SYS_BIN_PATH=""
4.) Add your path where you have got your cat.exe and grep.exe files like this: $SYS_BIN_PATH="c:/mingw/msys/1.0/bin". (note: factmsieve.pl does not accept the backslash (\) in path names, use the slash (/) instead.)
5.) Restart aliqueit.exe and make sure to use the -e option to skip ECM for the first factorization.

[mklasson]

Originally Posted by Joshua2

So that nfs hasn't finished yet, and I think it should have. I caught it having some errors, are these normal or what do I do?

What Andi said, plus: you appear to be running the 64-bit version of the gnfa-lasieve* sievers. You probably don't want to do that. They are slower than the 32-bit versions (due to lack of asm) and spew a lot of unwanted garbage to the screen for some reason.

[Joshua2]

Ok, so I should be using http://gilchrist.ca/jeff/factoring/g...0-win32-p4.zip instead of the core2 duo x64 version? I did what andi said now I'll try this. So I think I'll just transfer the gnfs-lasieve files from the 32 bit and keep all the other stuff 64 bit. I use msieve for everything I can too. Does this sound good?
Edit 32 bit seems to be giving me .005 sec/rel instead of .006, so about 15% I suppose. Is there no way to run a good 64 bit version w/ cygwin or anything better?

[mklasson]

Originally Posted by Joshua2

Ok, so I should be using http://gilchrist.ca/jeff/factoring/g...0-win32-p4.zip instead of the core2 duo x64 version? I did what andi said now I'll try this. So I think I'll just transfer the gnfs-lasieve files from the 32 bit and keep all the other stuff 64 bit. I use msieve for everything I can too. Does this sound good?

Sounds good to me.

Originally Posted by Joshua2

Edit 32 bit seems to be giving me .005 sec/rel instead of .006, so about 15% I suppose. Is there no way to run a good 64 bit version w/ cygwin or anything better?

I don't think so. I'm currently trying to get a faster 64-bit windows .exe working, but it's not there yet.

[Joshua2]

Looks like its still not fixed. $SYS_BIN_PATH="c:/cygwin/bin"; is what I have. I did $GGNFS_BIN_PATH="C:\\\Program Files\\\ggnfs"; and it seemed to work, was having errors before on that one. Should I switch to the 3 backslash?
Edit: also, each time I restart I lose all the sieving I've done, its getting annoying...

[10metreh]

Originally Posted by Joshua2

Looks like its still not fixed. $SYS_BIN_PATH="c:/cygwin/bin"; is what I have. I did $GGNFS_BIN_PATH="C:\\\Program Files\\\ggnfs"; and it seemed to work, was having errors before on that one. Should I switch to the 3 backslash?

That doesn't seem to be the problem: the command for cat.exe seems to be just "cat", not "$SYS_BIN_PATH/cat.exe". Could you please attach your factMsieve.pl? (I'm a veteran of path errors. I have had many of them in the past.)

[Andi47]

Originally Posted by Joshua2

Looks like its still not fixed. $SYS_BIN_PATH="c:/cygwin/bin"; is what I have. I did $GGNFS_BIN_PATH="C:\\\Program Files\\\ggnfs"; and it seemed to work, was having errors before on that one. Should I switch to the 3 backslash?

the error

sh: cat - command not found

indicates, that it does not find cat.exe (and therefore WILL fail).

c:/cygwin/bin should work, rather than with \\\.

[Joshua2]

Canceled it, and it looks like it deletes everything, along w/ another cat error. Is it supposed to save automatically and resume? Prob from not using win32 but win 64? if ($^O eq "MSWin32") {
I think I just delete the if and else and hard code it.

[10metreh]

Originally Posted by Joshua2

Canceled it, and it looks like it deletes everything, along w/ another cat error. Is it supposed to save automatically and resume? Prob from not using win32 but win 64? if ($^O eq "MSWin32") {
I bet I need else {
$CAT==$SYS_BIN_PATH."cat.exe";

I've attached a new version. I think it should sort out that problem.