:: 29-Mar-2000 07:58 (Wednesday) ::

Ahhh-ha!

*SQUISH!*

That’s the sound of me (hopefully) finding and squashing the bug that was
causing the statsrun to occasionally die. The query that does the append
into the master table was setup in such a way that if a person was on two
teams, then it would attempt to add two records to the master table, each
one containing blocks for the two different teams. Of course, you can’t
actually belong to two teams, so normally this shouldn’t be a problem.
BUT, if someone happened to switch teams while this query was running,
then the query could end up thinking you were on two teams. You would also
have to have submitted blocks on at least two occasions during the previous
day (I believe the query was essentially processing the data on an
hour-by-hour basis).

Hopefully you can understand why this was so difficult to track down. }:8)

:: 26-Mar-2000 01:37 (Sunday) ::

I’ve gotten some reports of inconsistencies in the number of blocks reported
to teams and the number of blocks reported in the team members listing.
I’m inclined to believe that this is due to the manual stats-runs that
happened yesterday. Stats are running right now, so hopefully all will be
well after the run is over.

On the good news front, Bruce is making steady progress on the OGR stats.
While it will be nice to have the OGR stats up and running, the real
excitement about this behind the scenes is that he’s taking this opportunity
to completely revamp the database structure for OGR. This will result in
less space being used, and faster stats-runs. Once we’ve tested the
structure on OGR, we should be able to move the RC5 data into the same
structure, which will result in much better, faster, and robust RC5 stats.

So, please bear with us… we are working to improve things, even if that
effort isn’t visible to most of the participants. }:8)

:: 24-Mar-2000 15:45 (Friday) ::

Yes, for those who’ve noticed, the stats for Mar 22 are MIA. Thanks to
the logging I put in the last time, I know where to start looking for the
problem. After I’ve looked into it, I’ll re-run Mar 22 and Mar 23.

Sorry for the slip-up.

:: 23-Mar-2000 04:35 (Thursday) ::

Hello! My name is Anthony ‘complex’ Elizondo. I’ve been with distributed.net
for about 6 months, doing mostly things that would be too boring to note
here.

My official title at distributed.net is officially Logistics Coordinator.
What it means is I mostly keep track of little things that tend to be
forgotten about, like accounting for distributed.net hardware donated and
in use across the world. It also entails finding people who might be able
to help distributed.net.

Right now decibel and bwilson are keeping stats running, but look forward
to revamping it to include multiple concurrent project statistics, greater
efficiency, and personalized stats pages. One area in which help is needed
is PHP coding. What follows is a job description for Lead Stats PHP Coder.
I encourage anyone with a bit of free time and the appropriate skills to
apply. Also, please pass this along to anybody you know who may be
interested. Resumes and cover letters may be e-mailed to
complex@distributed.net and/or decibel@distributed.net.

Lead PHP Stats Coder

Description: Oversight of stats PHP development and involvement in stats
development overall.

We are seeking someone who is highly skilled in PHP development. Immediate
need is to overhaul all of our PHP scripts to make them compatible with
a new database format, and to make them more maintainable. Long-range goal
is more features and a common set of PHP code across all of our projects.

Requirements: Experience with PHP required. Basic knowledge of HTML,
advanced knowledge (CSS, forms) desirable. Knowledge of SQL a plus.
Comfortable with peer review and brainstorming.

Commitment: 2-6 hours a week.

:: 20-Mar-2000 05:24 (Monday) ::

Ok…

Final internal client/proxy testing is going on. We are hoping to have
an open beta here soon. Please don’t mail me asking when, pay attention
to the web site.

:: 20-Mar-2000 05:28 (Monday) ::

A few users have expressed interest in finding out the latest status of
the clients, and I’m glad to say that we are getting very close to being
able to release the next batch of clients and proxies. Although we’ve
had the OGR specific problems addressed for quite awhile, we’ve been taking
the opportunity to try to address as many of the other feedback issues
that have been received over the last few months. The upcoming client
release is currently undergoing internal beta testing and we hope to have
more details about their release shortly.

:: 10-Mar-2000 17:34 (Friday) ::

Well, I’ve added some extra logging information to the statsrun…
hopefully it’ll generate some clues the next time the wrong data gets
processed for the day. I’m running the 3/9 stats right now, so they should
be available in a few hours. Sorry for the delay.

:: 10-Mar-2000 16:05 (Friday) ::

Seems Mar. 8 was loaded into stats again last night. I’m working on it…
will post an update when I know more…

:: 10-Mar-2000 00:06 (Friday) ::

Hello, I’m the new guy. I’ve been asked to ‘come aboard’ to help with a
new aspect of distributed.net stats. I’m not saying too much about it now
but as things start to pull together I’ll begin to let out some more
details of exactly what kind of project I’m working on.

:: 08-Mar-2000 01:09 (Wednesday) ::

Statsrun will be a bit delayed tonight… Mar 5 data got processed again
last night for some silly reason, so I need to back that out before running
Mar 6 and Mar 7.