:: 01-Nov-1998 23:43 (Sunday) ::
In the past, every time the master finishes assigning a certain subspace,
a master operator is required to generate the new subspaces and set them up
to be distributed. While this wasn’t a big deal 6 months ago when we only
rotated subspaces every couple months, now it is. We’re now rotating
subspaces every 12 or 13 days. This has become a major problem, since it
always seems that the master runs into the end of a subspace in the middle
of the night when all the operators are asleep.
I’ve recently written, tested, and implemented a script which takes
care of this serious problem. Basically, a master operator has to tell
the script which subspace should be assigned next and then when the current
one fills, the script rotates the subspaces and mails all the master
operators.
Now, proxies are less likely to be assigning random blocks because the
master has run out. I’m now working on my #5 project, listed above. More
details as I progress….