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Message boards : Sieving : Newbie question

Author	Message
Earth4 Send message Joined: 28 Sep 12 Posts: 8 ID: 173633 Credit: 2,520,053 RAC: 0	Message 60835 - Posted: 29 Dec 2012 | 23:28:11 UTC
	OK, so I've run Primegrid for some time, but only now have I gotten into sieving. I have a question about fpsieve: What does checkpointing actually save?
	ID: 60835 |
rogue Volunteer developer Send message Joined: 8 Sep 07 Posts: 1256 ID: 12001 Credit: 18,565,548 RAC: 0	Message 60840 - Posted: 30 Dec 2012 | 0:19:18 UTC - in response to Message 60835.
	OK, so I've run Primegrid for some time, but only now have I gotten into sieving. I have a question about fpsieve: What does checkpointing actually save? If you are running fsieve or fsievecl, a checkpoint will be written every minute or so and will save current progress. This allows you to stop the program with ^C (or an inadvertent restart/power outage) that you will not have to restart from the beginning of the range.
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Message boards : Sieving : Newbie question