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2009-10-29

bovine [29-Oct-2009 @ 20:46]

Filed under: stats — bovine @ 20:46 +00:00

:: 29-Oct-2009 20:46 GMT (Thursday) ::

Our statsbox should be back online and the hardware upgrade is
complete. No work was lost while it was offline, and it has fully
caught up with the backlog.

For those who are interested in the details: It had a failing
redundant power unit and the closest replacement I could find was a
used power supply designed for a larger 4U case from the same
manufacturer on eBay. Although I couldn’t use the whole power supply,
I believed I could use its newer revision power units if I swapped the
power connectors and faceplates from the failed unit and jumpered an
unnecessary switch connection. Fortunately this worked. I also took
the opportunity replace to a failing case fan, re-seat all power and
drive cables, do a burn in, and upgrade its FreeBSD from 6.2-PRE to
6.4-STABLE. Maybe we’ll move to 7.2 sometime!

Thanks for your patience and continued support!

2009-10-27

bovine [27-Oct-2009 @ 20:29]

Filed under: stats — bovine @ 20:29 +00:00

:: 27-Oct-2009 20:29 GMT (Tuesday) ::

Our statsbox is temporarily down while we perform some minor hardware
upgrades. We hope to bring it back online by tomorrow. Thanks for
your patience!

2009-09-05

chrisj [05-Sep-2009 @ 10:02]

Filed under: stats — chrisj @ 10:02 +00:00

:: 05-Sep-2009 10:02 GMT (Saturday) ::

Hi All,

It looks like fritz, our stats server, is experiencing technical difficulties
and is offline.

I’ll keep you all posted as information comes through. In the mean time, no
work will be lost

Thank you for you co-operation and patience

Moo!

2009-04-27

bovine [27-Apr-2009 @ 23:52]

Filed under: stats — bovine @ 23:52 +00:00

:: 27-Apr-2009 23:52 GMT (Monday) ::

There was an unexpected power interruption that caused some of today’s
stats totals to report a little lower than expected. Tomorrow’s stats
should hopefully include most of the queued results that missed the
deadline for stats processing. Thanks!

2009-03-12

bovine [12-Mar-2009 @ 22:12]

Filed under: keyservers,stats — bovine @ 22:12 +00:00

:: 12-Mar-2009 22:12 GMT (Thursday) ::

There was an unplanned network outage earlier today that caused the
unavailability of our website and DNS services. No work should have
been lost, due to the buffering nature of our network. We will be
working on improving the redundancy of our DNS over the next couple of
days to avoid that part of the problem in the future.

Additionally, we are aware that the historical stats for OGR-26 are
currently not displaying accurate data. During the enablement of
OGR-27 stats, some data archive tables were inadvertently truncated.
We will be working on re-loading those historical OGR-26 stats from
archive logs over the next week.

In other news, if you happen to be attending the South By Southwest
festival in Austin, Texas next week you should feel free to stop by
the Nuclear Taco Night event on Monday March 16 from 6-9 PM. A few of
the distributed.net staff will be working behind the skillets to serve
these extremely spicy tacos to anyone masochistic enough for them:
http://community.livejournal.com/nucleartacos/43420.html

Moo

2009-02-19

bovine [19-Feb-2009 @ 05:51]

Filed under: stats — bovine @ 05:51 +00:00

:: 19-Feb-2009 05:51 GMT (Thursday) ::

Stats were not updated today, due to some work to physically relocate
part of our backend network infrastructure. No stats credit will be
lost–all results are being queued and will be credited as soon as
we can. Thanks for your patience!

2009-01-03

chrisj [03-Jan-2009 @ 21:01]

Filed under: stats — chrisj @ 21:01 +00:00

:: 03-Jan-2009 21:01 GMT (Saturday) ::

Stats has now been updated to include node rate graphs for OGR-NG.

You can find the graphs at
http://stats.distributed.net/keyrate.php?project_id=26, or by clicking on the
history link from the OGR stats page

Moo!

2008-12-18

mikereed [18-Dec-2008 @ 18:56]

Filed under: stats — Mike Reed @ 18:56 +00:00

:: 18-Dec-2008 18:56 GMT (Thursday) ::

Our stats system has not been updating since December 13th. We are working to
resolve this and will post a further update in due course. We apologise for
any inconvenience this may cause.

2008-11-21

bovine [21-Nov-2008 @ 21:55]

Filed under: stats — bovine @ 21:55 +00:00

:: 21-Nov-2008 21:55 GMT (Friday) ::

The stats server should now be back online. There was no lost work
while it was offline.

One of its redundant power supplies failed a week ago, so it was
removed and a replacement power supply was ordered (for which we are
still waiting to arrive). However, the machine is apparently more
sensitive to line fluctuations without full redundancy.

2008-11-20

mikereed [20-Nov-2008 @ 17:06]

Filed under: stats — Mike Reed @ 17:06 +00:00

:: 20-Nov-2008 17:06 GMT (Thursday) ::

Our stats system is down. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
More to follow.

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