Re: Mersenne: Prime Net Server

[J�rg Thomsen]

Hi,

it isn't that easy at all. The default parameter for networkretries is, afaik, 10 minutes. So
most clients try to connect every 10 minutes until thy got a timeout. And the timeout seems to be
very long :-/. I think we loose much power on these gimpsserver fails.


Regards
J�rg

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From: Aaron Blosser
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:21:57 -0700

The thing is that even a 2-3 day outage is no big deal, because if we are all responsible GIMPSers, then we have our "days of work" configuration set to more than a couple days worth, right? So the worst that should have happened is that you have a result to check back in and have to wait for that while the next number is already crunching. :)
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I beg your pardon: you didn�t really expect to get informed about a planned outage BEFORE it happens or a crash AFTER it happened, did you?
 
If you did expect this, then you should have joined another distributed-computing project like SETI. They do inform their participants about such things. But people who are cool enough to find million-digit-primes should be able to find out that the server is down the whole weekend..... Well, you have to pay for it (in Germany), but who cares?
 
Such an outage didn�t occur for the first time in my (nearly) three years supporting GIMPS and others will follow. May be that�s one reason why GIMPS lost about 8.000 to 9.000 machines during the last six months.
 
Regards
Achim
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Von: Matt Goodrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Gesendet: Samstag, 8. September 2001 21:36
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Betreff: Mersenne: Prime Net Server


Is there scheduled maint. going on with the server today, or is this a unscheduled outage?
Matt

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