Michael Vang wrote:
On 1/2/06, Rhesa Rozendaal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My current rank is 165, so I wonder what folks higher up the ranks do to
keep their farms running smoothly.
Set checkins to 7 days. Keep a large queue of work.
I will give this a try. I'm currently checking in every 2 days, precisely to
be able to see if any processes hang.
I wonder if it will help though, since most of the time it's the instances
doing factorization that hang. I don't really know if they do when reporting
results, or just updating their status. Typically, they have results every 5
days or so.
Setting the checkin interval to 7 days may mean that some clients might be
idle for well over a week before I find out about it.
to become a little less reliant on the server. Fortunately, Prime95
and mprime are designed so this is possible.
Except that the client on linux doesn't cleanly deal with server outages, so
until that is resolved, I don't expect my frustration to end ;)
Please have patience with the server. GW and SK are very aware of the
situation and have done everything possible to make it work as
smoothly as possible. I know it appears as if the server is a
neglected box in a dark closet somewhere, but rest assured a lot of
work and effort is being applied to it daily.
I am patient, no worries. I've been a part of GIMPS since 2000, and don't feel
like giving up at all. I believe you when you say that you guys spend a lot of
effort on the server, but I can't help wondering why it needs so much
attention in the first place. None of my web apps need much intervention at
all (and I have several high traffic ones under my care), and I don't even
consider myself that much of a wizard sysadmin. Do you have any idea why your
server is falling off the net so often? And why has it gotten so much worse in
the past few months, compared to a couple of years back?
The main reason I'm speaking out at this point, is that these issues have been
going on for quite a while now, without any sign of improvement. I would
like to see some information on what's wrong, and what you guys are doing to
fix it. The primenet server appears to be a neglected box stuffed away
somewhere out of sight because I never saw any news about the ongoing work.
Some PR in that respect would have kept me silent :)
Thanks for your response,
Rhesa
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