:: 12-Aug-2000 05:38 (Saturday) ::

Just got back from a short trip.. somehow, tally knew I was gone and
decided to barf on OGR-25 stats last night. I’m way to tired to look into
it now, but I’ll work on it first thing tomorrow.

:: 03-Aug-2000 08:28 (Thursday) ::

Well, it’s obviously taken quite a bit longer than I thought it would to
get the OGR-25 stats up and running. I tested multiple project’s on the
hourly code yesterday, but somehow managed to forget about the daily code.
:/

Anyway, the daily code now works, and OGR-25 stats are now available. I’ve
also started the RC5 run, which I had delayed while I was working on the
OGR stats.

There might be some odd numbers still in stats, but those will have to
wait for tomorrow. :/

:: 03-Aug-2000 01:22 (Thursday) ::

I’m running some maintenance on the database right now, so the RC5 run
will be delayed a bit. I might also disable web access for awhile. We also
got the first OGR-25 results back today, expect OGR-25 stats within the
hour.

On a personal note, I switched to a Dvorack keyboard today. I’ll let
everyone know how it goes, but I can say that having your typing speed
suddenly drop to 0 is very, very unsettling! You don’t want to know how
long it’s taken me to type this simple message :/

:: 21-Jul-2000 12:03 (Friday) ::

I’m working on implementing a new table in the stats database that should
speed up the statsrun and improve the accuracy of team membership, but in
order to do so I’ll be needing to take the stats off-line at different
times today. I’ll try and keep them online as much as possible. Thanks
for your patience!

:: 20-Jul-2000 15:14 (Thursday) ::

Tally rebooted sometime during last night’s rc5 run, so I’m re-running
rc5 stats right now. In order to speed this up, I’m going to disable web
access for the next hour or so.

:: 17-Jul-2000 14:05 (Monday) ::

Ok, stats are back up, for the most part. The static pages are still
out-of-date or missing, but other than that everything should be golden.

:: 17-Jul-2000 12:57 (Monday) ::

Another update… I am aware that the index page for rc5-64 (as well as
the other static pages) is missing. Unfortunately, the only person who’s
not totally AFK is on the west coast, so it’ll probably be a few more
hours before he’s awake. We’ll get those pages up as soon as possible.

:: 17-Jul-2000 12:34 (Monday) ::

Sorry for keeping stats down for so long. I *finally* tracked down the
bug (retire_to’s weren’t happening properly) and I’m in the process of
fixing it. Until it’s fixed and I re-run OGR, the OGR numbers will be
wacky.

Sorry for the delay.

:: 17-Jul-2000 06:47 (Monday) ::

Great news! OGR is moving along at such a rapid rate that we have already
sent out the entire stub-space to participants!

While this is very encouraging, the downside is that there is still a
large amount of work (over 80%) that hasn’t come back to us yet. With a
fast moving contest like OGR, it is very important to keep your buffers
as small as possible, to avoid un-necessary duplication of work.

Also, the default client behavior will allow OGR work to build-up in the
out-buffer until a flush is called for (which might not happen until all
in-buffers, including RC5, are empty). It is suggested that anyone who is
participating in OGR change this by setting ‘Additional Buffer-Level
Checking’ on the buffer options menu to option 2 if you can tolerate the
additional network traffic this will produce. Note that if you have dial-up
network detection enabled that this adjustment isn’t needed. As well, if
you have configured your client to work only on OGR unless it runs out of
work, then simply setting a small number of OGR buffers will suffice.

:: 17-Jul-2000 05:16 (Monday) ::

While running OGR stats tonight, our error-detection routines found an
inconsistency in the OGR data for today. In order to track this down,
stats might be offline from time-to-time for the next several hours. I’ll
try and keep them online as much as I can. Also, please note that this is
strictly a stats issue; it in no way affects the contest itself.