Madpoo Serpentine Vermin Jar



Jul 2014

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Quote: Uncwilly Originally Posted by Is a PRP being run on it too (in case it may finish first) as a check?



Did the e-mail system work? Did the residue masking work? (And is there a clue somewhere?) Can we assume that this is a WR or should we assume that this is a Double Check? Also, I would assume, based upon the times your are talking about, this is not in the 100M digit range.



The email did successfully go out when the result was reported in, and fortunately I saw it pretty quick and started a verification run.



Since we have had those false positives lately (mostly from cudalucas, recently), what I've been doing when a "prime" comes in is to look at the age of the assignment. Most false reports (especially from cudalucas) were turning in results within hours of being assigned, so you could be pretty sure it was wrong.



There were the exceptions to that though, like the false positives from xolotl that were from Prime95, so the next thing I look at is the overall history of the machine that turned in the result, and of the user in general. How many double-check successes do they have, any bad results, etc. Are they a new user? Is the machine overclocked, etc?



So, yeah, everything in this case seems to be looking pretty good. It doesn't look like the machine is overclocked, it has a good history of matching DC's including some recent ones, in addition to the first-time checks it does. The user him or herself has been around for a while so this isn't some new person with a weird system...



In summary, fingers crossed, but it's looking good on the surface of it. PRP... well, it raises an interesting question about how a new prime found via PRP would be handled. I'd guess that a pair of LL tests would be run since LL is deterministic and not "merely" probabilistic?The email did successfully go out when the result was reported in, and fortunately I saw it pretty quick and started a verification run.Since we have had those false positives lately (mostly from cudalucas, recently), what I've been doing when a "prime" comes in is to look at the age of the assignment. Most false reports (especially from cudalucas) were turning in results within hours of being assigned, so you could be pretty sure it was wrong.There were the exceptions to that though, like the false positives from xolotl that were from Prime95, so the next thing I look at is the overall history of the machine that turned in the result, and of the user in general. How many double-check successes do they have, any bad results, etc. Are they a new user? Is the machine overclocked, etc?So, yeah, everything in this case seems to be looking pretty good. It doesn't look like the machine is overclocked, it has a good history of matching DC's including some recent ones, in addition to the first-time checks it does. The user him or herself has been around for a while so this isn't some new person with a weird system...In summary, fingers crossed, but it's looking good on the surface of it.