Met my goals for the season, how to shutdown?

Vidmar · 2009-05-16, 23:30

I've completed my goals for this season (top 100 in each work type) and I don't want to cool these hot machines though the summer months at my house.

What do people recommend as the best method for doing a temporary shutdown of all work without inadvertently holding onto any assignments?

TIA,
Vidmar

WraithX · 2009-05-17, 03:21

The way that worked best for me was to go to "Options->Preferences" and set "Days of work to queue up:" to 0. This way, you can still be part of Primenet/Prime95/GIMPS, but you won't automatically be given work to do.

CADavis · 2009-05-17, 03:26

exit Prime95. go to prime.txt and add the line
NoMoreWork=1

Then start Prime95 and when you finish the ones you have (or unreserve them) you won't get any more assignments.

petrw1 · 2009-05-17, 06:02

Seems a shame to lose a whole summer of work...

How about slowing the machines to the point they do not need cooling?

From undoc.txt:

Quote:

If you are running on a laptop or in a hot room and you want to slow the
program down to reduce heat, then you can add this line to prime.txt:
Throttle=n
where n is the percentage of time the program should run. For example,
Throttle=40 means the program will run 40% and be idle 60% of the time.

ATH · 2009-05-17, 10:24

You can also add MaxExponents=0 to prime.txt, when worktodo.txt is empty, it won't get more work.

2009-05-16, 23:30	#1
Vidmar Jan 2009 13 Posts	Met my goals for the season, how to shutdown? I've completed my goals for this season (top 100 in each work type) and I don't want to cool these hot machines though the summer months at my house. What do people recommend as the best method for doing a temporary shutdown of all work without inadvertently holding onto any assignments? TIA, Vidmar

2009-05-17, 03:26	#3
CADavis Jul 2005 Des Moines, Iowa, USA 10101010₂ Posts	exit Prime95. go to prime.txt and add the line NoMoreWork=1 Then start Prime95 and when you finish the ones you have (or unreserve them) you won't get any more assignments. Last fiddled with by CADavis on 2009-05-17 at 03:27

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2009-05-17, 03:21	#2
WraithX Mar 2006 532₁₀ Posts	The way that worked best for me was to go to "Options->Preferences" and set "Days of work to queue up:" to 0. This way, you can still be part of Primenet/Prime95/GIMPS, but you won't automatically be given work to do.

2009-05-17, 10:24	#5
ATH Einyen Dec 2003 Denmark D6A₁₆ Posts	You can also add MaxExponents=0 to prime.txt, when worktodo.txt is empty, it won't get more work.