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2003-10-03

decibel [03-Oct-2003 @ 12:40]

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:: 03-Oct-2003 12:40 GMT (Friday) ::

I’ve created a meta-bug for all the bugs that need to be resolved to
restore full stats functionality. If you want to monitor the status
of these bugs, you should add yourself to the CC list on bug 3437
(http://n0cgi.distributed.net/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=3437).

decibel [03-Oct-2003 @ 12:16]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 12:16 +00:00

:: 03-Oct-2003 12:16 GMT (Friday) ::

I’ve just enabled team editing. It appears to work fine, but please note that .
if errors occur it will be necessary to restore from a backup This means any .
changes you make right now could potentially be lost .

2003-09-27

decibel [27-Sep-2003 @ 13:05]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 13:05 +00:00

:: 27-Sep-2003 13:05 GMT (Saturday) ::

We’ve been getting reports of missing work. There are currently several
full-proxies that have not communicated with the master for some time. Some of
these may still be accepting work from clients, which means the work is piling
up at the full-proxy.

I’ve notified Bovine, hopefully things will be running smoothly again very
soon.

2003-09-16

decibel [16-Sep-2003 @ 20:11]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 20:11 +00:00

:: 16-Sep-2003 20:11 GMT (Tuesday) ::

Just an update to let everyone know I’m still alive.

I’ve been hoping to grab Paul and/or TheJet so they could keep an eye on things
when we turn the editing functions back on. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able
to catch them.

If I can’t grab them soon I’ll cross my fingers and turn the stuff on. I’m
tired of the impaired state of stats.

2003-09-08

decibel [08-Sep-2003 @ 18:49]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 18:49 +00:00

:: 08-Sep-2003 18:49 GMT (Monday) ::

Well, stats are finally back up. Blower is re-running logs starting from July
13th and it should be caught up in a few days. There’s currently an issue with
participant history being very slow, but I’m hoping that updating some index
statistics will solve that problem.

2003-09-07

decibel [07-Sep-2003 @ 11:02]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 11:02 +00:00

:: 07-Sep-2003 11:02 GMT (Sunday) ::

I’m in the process of restoring an older copy of the stats database; I’m not
sure how long it will take, though.

decibel [07-Sep-2003 @ 02:50]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 02:50 +00:00

:: 07-Sep-2003 02:50 GMT (Sunday) ::

I’m restoring a backup of the stats database; stats will be un-available until
this is done. Sorry for the inconvenience.

2003-09-06

decibel [06-Sep-2003 @ 22:18]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 22:18 +00:00

:: 06-Sep-2003 22:18 GMT (Saturday) ::

It looks like the fix I tried to correct for case-sensitive emails didn’t work.
Rather than trying to fix my fix, I’m going to restore from an early backup and
roll stats forward from there. At this point I think we’ve worked out all the
bugs, so rolling forward should go much faster than it was before; I hope to be
caught up again by Tuesday.

2003-09-05

decibel [05-Sep-2003 @ 14:24]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 14:24 +00:00

:: 05-Sep-2003 14:24 GMT (Friday) ::

We just realized that participant emails aren’t being checked properly before
being added to the database; specifically, emails are being checked in a
case-sensitive manner.

I’m working on fixing the problem right now, but I’ve taken the stats-runs
off-line until I can get everything straightened out. Hopefully shouldn’t
affect tonight’s statsrun.

2003-09-03

decibel [03-Sep-2003 @ 11:18]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 11:18 +00:00

:: 03-Sep-2003 11:18 GMT (Wednesday) ::

I’m trying to fix the kernel shared memory parameters so we can run more
PostgreSQL processes. Stats should be back in 10 minutes or so.

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