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distributed.net staff keep (relatively) up-to-date logs of their activities in .plan files. These were traditionally available via finger, but we've put them on the web for easier consumption.
:: 22-Mar-2002 17:02 GMT (Friday) ::
There may be some increased backlog within the proxy network today
starting in a couple of hours. We will be relocating the central
keymaster to another location. irc.distributed.net will also suffer
some lack of connectivity between the nodes, since the central IRC hub
will also be relocated at the same time. Some DNS queries to the
*.distributed.net domain may be delayed, since one of the DNS
secondaries is also affected.
:: 20-Mar-2002 23:34 GMT (Wednesday) ::
The reason stats are so low for today is the master
was down most of the day. It will hopefully catch-up
with the backlog tomorrow. See bovine’s .plan for
more info.
:: 20-Mar-2002 22:46 GMT (Wednesday) ::
Network connectivity should be improving now for most people. There
may be slight delays because of the resulting traffic spike.
:: 20-Mar-2002 18:15 GMT (Wednesday) ::
Just to let everyone know, there is currently a large network routing
outage that is preventing some people from being able to access to
some of our servers. We hope to have this problem resolved within the
next few hours and will post updated details when they are available.
:: 10-Mar-2002 22:26 GMT (Sunday) ::
Just thought I’d share some of my weekend distributed.net humor with
anyone happening to read this:
http://www.bovine.net/~jlawson/gallery/distributed-net/dnet_sign1
http://www.bovine.net/~jlawson/gallery/distributed-net/dnet_sign2
Our public roadsides seem to be getting cluttered with more and more
of those useless signs every day…
:: 08-Mar-2002 02:49 GMT (Friday) ::
And there was much rejoicing.
Sybase 11.0.3 can’t optimize stored procedures very well, which was causing a
problem for the participant history page. Every time someone hit that page, it
would cause the database to read a substantial portion of the (now 52 million
row) Email_Contrib table. Not only would it take forever to get that page back,
but all of that disk IO was seriously impacting the server itself.
Anyway, I’ve replaced the stored proc with a raw query (so much for code
abstraction), and everything seems to be running OK again.
:: 07-Mar-2002 07:46 GMT (Thursday) ::
Blower is quite unhappy with the rc5 data in the new table format.
Specifically, web site access is generating a huge amount of disk IO. Based on
a quick check of page load times, the problem seems to be on the email side,
rather than the team’s side.
I’ve updated index statistics on all the major tables used by the new stats
system, but that didn’t help.
We’re going to have to try and figure out what queries are taking so long to
run from the website. Until we can do that, things are going to run a bit slow.
Hopefully we can get this cleaned up in the next week or so. In the meantime,
expect web access to be turned off at times to facilitate the statsruns.
:: 07-Mar-2002 04:14 GMT (Thursday) ::
Blower is still unhappy. I’m updating index statistics on the off-chance that
will fix the problem. More info as available.
:: 06-Mar-2002 08:10 GMT (Wednesday) ::
Blower’s been running terribly slow on the RC5 data for Mar 4, so I’ve shut
off the website for the next two hours. Hopefully it will be well caught up by
then.
:: 05-Mar-2002 23:34 GMT (Tuesday) ::
There will be a brief network outage at UD tonight. This will affect stats and
cvsweb.