Individual hosts are not to be trusted, but as a group they can be trusted.
This calculation is not about the individual hosts credits, but about the
trying to figure out whether the project as a whole is granting to many or
too few credits.
jm7
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El Martes 29 Sep 2009 14:22:52 john.mcl...@sybase.com escribió:
> The clients could report to each server that their granted credit / hour
> for all projects is X, and also report how many projects (machines with
> more projects would get a higher weight in some server side calculation -
> those with only the single project would get a weight of 0 in the
> calculation). The weight might be 1-1/n where n is the number of
projects
> the client is attached to. This would involve the servers reporting to
the
> clients the credits / hour granted.
What would be the consequences of a client reporting fake numbers? Couldn't
they cheat credits that way?
The client is *not* trusted.
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Nicolas
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