:: 15-Jul-2000 03:50 (Saturday) ::

I wanted to update everyone as to what’s going on with stats, since they’ve
been off and on all afternoon. We’ve been working hard to squash a few
OGR bugs that we found. When we were doing updates, we were shutting apache
down so that we wouldn’t have to try and fight all of you for CPU time
and disk bandwidth. }:8)

RC5 stats are running right now, and I’m also trying to debug another OGR
error, so apache will probably be off for a bit longer. I’ll turn it back
on as soon as I can.

Thanks for your patience while we work out these last few kinks!

:: 14-Jul-2000 07:55 (Friday) ::

Just in case anyone is wondering where the rc5 stats are, we started the
statsrun late due to work on OGR stats. The run also seems to be taking
more time than normal, possibly due to OGR contest start today. They should
be up by morning though.

:: 13-Jul-2000 23:40 (Thursday) ::

For those of you running pproxies, please make sure that you deleted your
old OGR buffers from the last OGR project, which was suspended February
22nd. The pproxy will *not* automatically dump OGR work units from the
last time OGR was running. The old buffers will contain much larger stubs
which take a long time to process. With how fast OGR moves, it is possible
that any old blocks would end up as dupes, meaning that work would be
wasted.

Sorry for any inconvenience. }:8)

:: 09-Jun-2000 09:46 (Friday) ::

Ok, everything should be back to normal. Thanks for your patience.

:: 09-Jun-2000 09:16 (Friday) ::

I’m working on the participant search function right now. As a result of
this, it may be out of order. Please bear with me, I’ll get it running
again as fast as possible.

Thanks.

:: 31-May-2000 05:28 (Wednesday) ::

As I’m sure some of you have noticed, the ‘yesterday’ results for teams
are a bit wonky. I’m working on it and will keep you posted.

:: 31-May-2000 00:32 (Wednesday) ::

Well, statsrun was *supposed* to be delayed tonight, but I accidentally
bork the code that’s supposed to disable it. So, it’s currently running
anyway. Oh well…

:: 30-May-2000 23:36 (Tuesday) ::

Well, there’s bad news and good news…

Bad news: Statsrun will be delayed tonight

Good news: Reason for the delay is to re-tune the database engine a bit
to better cope with having only a single CPU

Better news: I’ve re-done some of the team ranking code to pull data from
the team members table instead of the huge master table where appropriate.
My initial testing indicates a *massive* speed improvement. I couldn’t
simulate a full run while stats were live, but I’m hopeful that team
ranking will take well less than an hour tonight (it’s been taking about
2 hours as of late).

:: 30-May-2000 06:22 (Tuesday) ::

Ok, backup is done. Since it’s late and I’m tired and just had to fix some
stupidity, I’m going to vent. :)

Why on earth does RH Linux think that bash is a drop-in replacement for
sh? This:

#!/bin/sh

gets you a bash shell on statsbox. You’d *think* it would get you a sh
shell, since that’s what you asked for, but no, RH Linux knows better than
you what you actually want.

To be fair, from what I understand RH isn’t the only linux that does this.

I just can’t wait for the day that Sybase releases a free version of it’s
server for FreeBSD.

Anyway, thanks for listening, and expect the statsrun to be done in about
5 hours.

Moo!

:: 30-May-2000 04:45 (Tuesday) ::

Some probably noticed that stats were down for a bit. Real observant folks
might even have noticed that statsrun isn’t running right now. Basically,
the backup is interfering with the statsrun. Normally, this backup is run
Sunday night after statsrun, so it doesn’t interfere with anything, but
it’s still running right now (I don’t know if it started late or is just
running really, really slow).

I had web access shut off for a while to try and speed things along, but
I’m not sure it was making a difference so it’s back on again. Statsrun
won’t be happening until the backup is done though, I’m afraid. We’ll
get it going ASAP.