:: 13-Jun-2002 00:34 GMT (Thursday) ::

Sorry about the lack of stats, problem solved and stats are running right now.

:: 10-Jun-2002 19:54 GMT (Monday) ::

*wiping egg off face*

Ok, I now see what some people were talking about with the stats for April 7-9.
They definitely look foobar, most likely a problem from when we started the new
statsruns up.

I’ll work on correcting this problem.

:: 10-Jun-2002 18:45 GMT (Monday) ::

For those who have noticed differences in the numbers, this is most likely
due to bugs that were present in the old stats code. We run an audit script
at the end of every daily run of the new system that does a sanity check on
the numbers represented by all the different parts of the system. It would be
difficult to overstate it’s value; at least a dozen bugs have been identified
thanks to this script as the new stats code evolved from it’s inception.

Because of this audit script, I have a very high degree of confidence in the
new stats code. We migrated the rc5 data from the old system into the new
system several months ago. Part of that migration was modifying the raw data as
best we could so that everything would actually pass the audit script. Since
that time, rc5 logs have been processed by the new system each night, as well
as the old system. This period of both systems running is what has allowed
people to do most of the before/after comparisons I’ve seen.

What this boils down to is that any rc5 stats processed by the new system
(ie: anything in the past month or two) can be assumed to be 100% correct and
accurate as compared to the logs provided by the master. Anything prior to that
time could still be off.

At some time in the future, I would like to start re-processing all of the rc5
logs from the beginning of the project. This should correct any other errors
that might exist in the rc5 stats.

:: 10-Jun-2002 17:05 GMT (Monday) ::

For Sony PlayStation 2 users:

Yes, Linux[mips/PS2] is the first client for PlayStation 2!
http://www.distributed.net/download/prerelease.html

The RC5 core is mips-crunch.cpp.
Special thanks to Michael Mallory,
-pedantic solution was discovered by him.
I didn’t change mips-crunch.cpp
because it might make an influence to other platform.

It’s *REQUIRED* “Linux for PlayStation 2” kit.
There is no method which runs it without this kit.
You may think it’s able to boot from PS2 Memory Card, but it’s impossible.
PS2 Linux (or any unix variants for PS2) is booted
only from the Runtime Environment in Disk1.
Therefore, if you don’t have this kit, please purchase it!

(for Japanese: We can’t buy it now.
See http://www.jp.playstation.com/linux/ )

If you have PS2Linux, you can run it without HDD(or BB) unit.
http://achurch.org/ps2/ (written by Japanese language)
Install ps2linux-boot-ntsc.tar.gz and dnetc to /mnt/MC00.

Once you do it,
you may install the “Final Fantasy XI online” to HDD :-)
Both “Linux for PlayStation 2” and “PlayStation2 BB Unit” are
kiting the same HDD and Ethernet unit.

Please feel free comments to me (language available: English and Japanese)

Enjoy!
jt
jt@distributed.net

:: 08-Jun-2002 22:07 GMT (Saturday) ::

There was a master outage yesterday that resulted in uncompressed logs. Until
this is fixed by one of the master operators, stats won’t be updating.

:: 08-Jun-2002 01:26 GMT (Saturday) ::

Moose updated some new clients on June 3rd on the pre-release download
page, at http://www.distributed.net/download/prerelease.html The
updated clients include:

* Win32 [x86/Zipped] v2.8018.472b 2002-06-03
* Win32 [x86/Setup] v2.8018.472b 2002-06-03
* Windows 3.x [x86] v2.8018.472b 2002-06-03
* PC-DOS, MS-DOS [x86] v2.8018.472b 2002-06-03
* Linux [x86/ELF] v2.8018.472b 2002-06-03
* Linux [mips/PS2] v2.8018.472b 2002-06-03

This week there have been some routing issues with our two keyservers
in Redwood City, CA (proxy1.rwc.ca.us.proxy.distributed.net and
proxy2.rwc.ca.us.proxy.distributed.net). There is a large backlog of
blocks sitting on both of these machines, which accounts for why some
participant stats may have been low this week. The routing issue
appears to be fixed now, but it may take a day or so for everything to
get caught up again.

I’ve also just relocated my distributed.net photo gallery, from under
my personal web space, to a more officially named virtual host. You
can now find these pictures (of primarily distributed.net staff and
other miscellaneous images) under http://gallery.distributed.net/

:: 07-Jun-2002 23:36 GMT (Friday) ::

Wewps. OGR statsrun died last night and I didn’t notice until just now. Problem
is fixed and OGR is running manually right now. After it’s done I’ll turn the
automagic stuff back on and everything should be caught up again in a few
hours.

Also, in case it hasn’t been mentioned, we had some problems with two
fullproxies which resulted in them backing up a lot of work. This resulted in
low work counts for the past several days. The problem is now fixed, and the
proxies are busy cramming the work they had back-logged into the master, so
everything should be back to normal after tomorrow.

:: 03-Jun-2002 21:57 GMT (Monday) ::

Well, I think we’ve got the two bad pages weeded out. One is the CPU/OS
distribution page, the other is (unfortunately) the participant summary page.
Paul’s disabled the CPU/OS stats for RC5, and psummary was disabled (read as: I
rm’d the file) for a while. I’ve put psummary back and it seems to be not too
bad for now. I’m going to go ahead and let stats run again and we’ll see what
happens. We should have everything sorted out in the next few days.

:: 03-Jun-2002 18:11 GMT (Monday) ::

Hello,

Firstly, as some of you may know I’ve been helping out with distributed.net
for a while now with the php and with help@distributed.net mail.

I’m going to be taken stats down for hopefully a short period to look at
migrating the php code to the single codebase that decibel has previously i
mentioned.

We have moved stuff around quite a bit in doing this. If you do discover
problems with the new pages, which you’d like to discuss/inform us of,
then please email me at paul@distributed.net

I’ll post a plan update later on once I’ve finished with the stats pages.

:: 03-Jun-2002 16:51 GMT (Monday) ::

Well, we’re on the new system, but something is running *really* slowly. We’ll
be yanking things one-by-one to determine what’s causing the problem, so expect
some strange behavior (ie: broken links) while we track this down.