staff blogs

distributed.net staff keep (relatively) up-to-date logs of their activities in .plan files. These were traditionally available via finger, but we've put them on the web for easier consumption.

2002-06-08

bovine [08-Jun-2002 @ 01:26]

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:: 08-Jun-2002 01:26 GMT (Saturday) ::

Moose updated some new clients on June 3rd on the pre-release download
page, at http://www.distributed.net/download/prerelease.html The
updated clients include:

* Win32 [x86/Zipped] v2.8018.472b 2002-06-03
* Win32 [x86/Setup] v2.8018.472b 2002-06-03
* Windows 3.x [x86] v2.8018.472b 2002-06-03
* PC-DOS, MS-DOS [x86] v2.8018.472b 2002-06-03
* Linux [x86/ELF] v2.8018.472b 2002-06-03
* Linux [mips/PS2] v2.8018.472b 2002-06-03

This week there have been some routing issues with our two keyservers
in Redwood City, CA (proxy1.rwc.ca.us.proxy.distributed.net and
proxy2.rwc.ca.us.proxy.distributed.net). There is a large backlog of
blocks sitting on both of these machines, which accounts for why some
participant stats may have been low this week. The routing issue
appears to be fixed now, but it may take a day or so for everything to
get caught up again.

I’ve also just relocated my distributed.net photo gallery, from under
my personal web space, to a more officially named virtual host. You
can now find these pictures (of primarily distributed.net staff and
other miscellaneous images) under http://gallery.distributed.net/

2002-06-07

decibel [07-Jun-2002 @ 23:36]

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:: 07-Jun-2002 23:36 GMT (Friday) ::

Wewps. OGR statsrun died last night and I didn’t notice until just now. Problem
is fixed and OGR is running manually right now. After it’s done I’ll turn the
automagic stuff back on and everything should be caught up again in a few
hours.

Also, in case it hasn’t been mentioned, we had some problems with two
fullproxies which resulted in them backing up a lot of work. This resulted in
low work counts for the past several days. The problem is now fixed, and the
proxies are busy cramming the work they had back-logged into the master, so
everything should be back to normal after tomorrow.

2002-06-03

decibel [03-Jun-2002 @ 21:57]

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:: 03-Jun-2002 21:57 GMT (Monday) ::

Well, I think we’ve got the two bad pages weeded out. One is the CPU/OS
distribution page, the other is (unfortunately) the participant summary page.
Paul’s disabled the CPU/OS stats for RC5, and psummary was disabled (read as: I
rm’d the file) for a while. I’ve put psummary back and it seems to be not too
bad for now. I’m going to go ahead and let stats run again and we’ll see what
happens. We should have everything sorted out in the next few days.

paul [03-Jun-2002 @ 18:11]

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:: 03-Jun-2002 18:11 GMT (Monday) ::

Hello,

Firstly, as some of you may know I’ve been helping out with distributed.net
for a while now with the php and with help@distributed.net mail.

I’m going to be taken stats down for hopefully a short period to look at
migrating the php code to the single codebase that decibel has previously i
mentioned.

We have moved stuff around quite a bit in doing this. If you do discover
problems with the new pages, which you’d like to discuss/inform us of,
then please email me at paul@distributed.net

I’ll post a plan update later on once I’ve finished with the stats pages.

decibel [03-Jun-2002 @ 16:51]

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:: 03-Jun-2002 16:51 GMT (Monday) ::

Well, we’re on the new system, but something is running *really* slowly. We’ll
be yanking things one-by-one to determine what’s causing the problem, so expect
some strange behavior (ie: broken links) while we track this down.

decibel [03-Jun-2002 @ 09:01]

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:: 03-Jun-2002 09:01 GMT (Monday) ::

Sorry for the rc5 stats outage. Paul should be getting the new rc5 stats up
today (hopefully in a few hours), so everyone should be able to slake their
thirst for stats at that time.

Moo!

2002-05-21

decibel [21-May-2002 @ 16:07]

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:: 21-May-2002 16:07 GMT (Tuesday) ::

Stats are back on again, after a Sybase restart, and things appear to be back
to normal. I have firewalled the 6 IP’s that were causing the most load, but
I’ll probably remove the ban soon, depending on how it affects load. While I
would like to support those who want to play with the stats data in a more raw
form, it’s not fair to all the other users if they’re noticeably slowing things
down for everyone else.

decibel [21-May-2002 @ 09:40]

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:: 21-May-2002 09:40 GMT (Tuesday) ::

I have stats turned off right now. The RC5 run was going very slowly and
wouldn’t have finished today. This might be due to people page-scraping, but
I’m not sure (6 IP’s account for 22% of the last 500,000 web requests). After
the statsrun is done I’ll restart Sybase and see if that helps.

2002-05-18

decibel [18-May-2002 @ 13:33]

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:: 18-May-2002 13:33 GMT (Saturday) ::

RC5 statsrun didn’t happen last night; I just started it. Should be done in a
few hours.

2002-05-15

decibel [15-May-2002 @ 01:05]

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:: 15-May-2002 01:05 GMT (Wednesday) ::

Had some issues with the master today, so stats are reporting low (especially
for OGR). Everything should catch up tomorrow or the day after.

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