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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.

2000-10-26

decibel [26-Oct-2000 @ 19:00]

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:: 26-Oct-2000 19:07 (Thursday) ::

For everyone who’s been wondering why stats have been up and down; the
statsrun has been slowing down again, so I’m running a maintenance routine.
I’ve also been working to get the stats-runs finished. Although dbcc runs
in the background, tally just isn’t powerful enough to support the dbcc,
statsrun, and web access all at the same time. That’s why I’ve been turning
web access off and on.

As soon as either the dbcc or the statsrun finishes, I’ll turn http back
on.

decibel [26-Oct-2000 @ 01:17]

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:: 26-Oct-2000 01:18 (Thursday) ::

As I’m sure some have noticed, OGR stats are off by a day. They will be
up-to-date very soon after tonight’s RC5 run. Sorry for any confusion.

2000-10-24

decibel [24-Oct-2000 @ 02:36]

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:: 24-Oct-2000 02:40 (Tuesday) ::

It’s not been a good day in stats-land. For some reason, the bcp process
started failing silently some time after the first log for yesterday was
processed. I’ve fixed the problem by deleting the table that date gets
bcp’d into and re-creating it, but now I have to re-run OGR for yesterday.
In order to make this happen at a reasonable clip, I’ve got web access
shut off again. I’ll turn it back on as soon as I can.

Sorry again for the inconvenience. }:8(

2000-10-23

decibel [23-Oct-2000 @ 21:03]

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:: 23-Oct-2000 21:06 (Monday) ::

The maintenance I’m running is taking a lot longer than I expected. It’s
not really impacting http on the box, but the web access is slowing the
maintenance down by quite a bit, and we can’t do OGR statsruns until it’s
done. So, I’ve turned web access off again for now, to give things a chance
to finish up. I’ll get the web turned back on as soon as possible.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

decibel [23-Oct-2000 @ 10:27]

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:: 23-Oct-2000 10:28 (Monday) ::

OGR stats are running right now. I’m also running some maintenance on the
database, which will take an hour or two. Until it’s done, expect tally
to be *SLOW*.

decibel [23-Oct-2000 @ 03:08]

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:: 23-Oct-2000 03:09 (Monday) ::

Something went slightly amiss with the OGR run tonight, so OGR stats will
run after RC5 stats are done. They should be done by about 0900 GMT (4AM
CDT).

2000-10-08

decibel [08-Oct-2000 @ 17:39]

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:: 08-Oct-2000 17:41 (Sunday) ::

The static pages for rc5 stats (such as the overall project stats page)
have stopped updating for some reason. We’re aware of it and are working
on it. Sorry for the delay.

2000-10-06

decibel [06-Oct-2000 @ 07:04]

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:: 06-Oct-2000 07:22 (Friday) ::

With some of the bad things that have been happening with stats lately,
I thought it’d be nice to report something good for a change. :)

First, I’ve made a few changes to the old rc5 statsrun code recently that
have had a dramatic impact on the run time. Retroactive team joins used
to take an hour; it’s now under a minute. Email ranking for yesterday used
to take over an hour; it’s down to a few minutes. The overall run is back
down to a ‘reasonable’ amount of time (it was back in the 6-10 hour range,
depending on when it started running (the heavier activity during the US
day would slow it down)).

Here’s the real good news though: I’ve been running some rc5 logs through
the new stats system. Here’s a sample…

[10:46:56] Spawning daily.pl for rc5 [10:47:01] Beginning daily processing
routines [10:51:30] retire.sql 5 completed successfully (276 seconds)
[10:53:24] dy_appendday.sql 5 completed successfully (100 seconds)
[10:56:39] em_update.sql 5 completed successfully (183 seconds) [10:58:03]
em_rank.sql 5 completed successfully (85 seconds) [11:02:30] tm_update.sql
5 completed successfully (274 seconds) [11:02:45] tm_rank.sql 5 completed
successfully (14 seconds) [11:03:02] dy_dailyblocks.sql 5 completed
successfully (16 seconds) [11:03:56] Looking for new logs, last log
processed was 20001005-14 [11:04:09] ogr20001005-15.log.gz received: 35,857
bytes in 1.5 seconds (23.9 KB/s) [11:04:16] ogr20001005-15.log.gz
successfully decompressed (82.8% compression) [11:04:18]
ogr20001005-15.log.gz successfully filtered through ./logmod_ogr.pl.
[11:04:47] ./workdir/ogr20001005-15.log.filtered successfully BCP’d; 2,275
rows at 58.33 rows/second. [11:05:04] ogr20001005-15.log.gz successfully
processed. [11:05:31] audit.sql 5 completed successfully (141 seconds)
[11:05:38] clearday.sql 5 completed successfully (15 seconds) [11:11:46]
backup.sql 5 completed successfully (368 seconds) [11:11:51] Daily
processing for 20000902 has completed [11:12:02] daily.pl complete for
rc5

This means that the rc5 run took less than half an hour, even though a
OGR hourly run snuck in the middle. Compare that to the 3+ hours that the
statsrun takes with the old system! Granted, there are only 3 days worth
of rc5 data in the new system at this time, but due to the design of the
system, that should not have a large impact on the amount of time the run
takes.

We are still in the process of creating a version of the new php code for
rc5, but we should be ready to drop the old system entirely in the very
near future.

2000-10-03

decibel [03-Oct-2000 @ 03:03]

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:: 03-Oct-2000 03:04 (Tuesday) ::

Slight change in plans… the RC5 run didn’t plow right into the run that’s
needed for Oct 02 like I thought it would, so I’m running the OGR stats
now. They should be up soon, and as soon as they are, I’ll start RC5.

decibel [03-Oct-2000 @ 00:57]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 00:57 +00:00

:: 03-Oct-2000 00:59 (Tuesday) ::

Quick update on stats…

RC5 has been running for 20 hours or so now. It’s a bit past 50% done on
the second day of RC5 that it had to run. Of course, in that time, another
day has elapsed, so there will be yet one more RC5 run before OGR stats
run. OGR stats should kick off early this morning. Sorry for the delay.

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