Discussion related to cado-nfs

[paul zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>]

       Dear Meng,

> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 13:02:34 +0800 (CST)
> From: meng <qsmeng@126.com>
> 
> Hi all,
>      Using the two nonlinear polynomial given by Williams, I tried to 
> factor C59 by running  "./cadofactor.py params.c59" under the direction of 
> Readme.nonlinear. Everything seems to be ok, but the sieving stage took too 
> much time(several hours) .  The screen displays the following and no 
> progress:
> 
> 
> Info:Lattice Sieving: Adding workunit c59_sieving_91845-93845 to database
> Info:Lattice Sieving: Adding workunit c59_sieving_93845-95845 to database
> Info:Lattice Sieving: Adding workunit c59_sieving_95845-97845 to database
> Info:Lattice Sieving: Adding workunit c59_sieving_97845-99845 to database
> Info:Lattice Sieving: Adding workunit c59_sieving_99845-101845 to database
> Info:Lattice Sieving: Adding workunit c59_sieving_101845-103845 to database
> Info:Lattice Sieving: Adding workunit c59_sieving_103845-105845 to database
> Info:Lattice Sieving: Adding workunit c59_sieving_105845-107845 to database
> Info:Lattice Sieving: Adding workunit c59_sieving_107845-109845 to database
> Info:Lattice Sieving: Adding workunit c59_sieving_109845-111845 to database
> 
>   Obviously it is not normal. Would you please help to fix this problem? 
> Thank you in advance.
>    Best regards,
> Qingshu Meng

indeed this is not normal. I just tried with the git version and it works
(except you should not add tasks.sieve.import=/my/wonderful/path/rels,
relations are now automatically computed by las).

Apparently your clients do not fetch the workunits. Does the following work
with the git version?

zimmerma@coing:~/svn/cado-nfs$ ./scripts/cadofactor/cadofactor.py 
params/params.c59 
N=71641520761751435455133616475667090434063332228247871795429 
tasks.workdir=/tmp/c59 slaves.hostnames=localhost 
tasks.execpath=${HOME}/svn/cado-nfs/build/${MACHINE}

Paul