Have enough wu to last through 3/3/2001 8PM.
Have disabled auto-connect until 3/3/2001 high noon (EST)
Will get 1.5 days worth of wu, then increment by .5 / day, every day until
back to normal.
This is the fairest scheme that I can come up with, but I am open to
suggestions.
We're lucky this didn't happen prior to the new year, as processing time for
the new client went up by 50% at that time.
Good luck to all
Tony
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Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 2:37 PM
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Subject: Re: Overloads and Digests Quotes
On Mar 1, 6:58pm, "chrisrutt" wrote:
} Subject: Overloads and Digests Quotes
}
} . . .
}
} Is the overload going to be worse because so many of us (including me!)
have
} been introduced for the first time to the caching programs?
I'm sure that 1.5 million people trying to download 20
WUs a piece will generate a heavier load than 1.5 million
people downloading single WUs.
Doesn't matter. You're not likely to talk the caching
folks out of it.
I'm also sure that having people take turns in getting
their workunits might even out the load.
Again, it doesn't matter. We'd never convince everyone
to do it. Even if we could convince them, we'd consume
more bandwidth in coordination than we'd consume in the
"collisions". And even assuming we could afford that,
we'd still have the problem that some people will be
finishing their first WU and asking for another before
everyone has had a chance to get their first.
- - - - -
Pardon me while I think (compute) out loud for a moment.
There's about 86,400 seconds in a day. A 1Mbit/sec link
(approximately a T1) can average 100Kbytes/sec (protocol,
acks, etc...) That's about 8.6Gbytes/day.
A WU takes about 340K to download. So the above link
could handle about 25,000 WUs per day. 1.5 million WUs
would take about 2 months.
A typical 10Mbit network could cut that down to a week.
A fast 100Mbit network could cut that down to 14 hours.
Like I said, the first to get their WUs will likely be
coming back for "seconds" before everyone has been fed.
Anyone remember how fast the S@h link to the outside
world is? (I'm not talking about the cut fiber, but the
ultimate link to the internet).
Of course, 20 WUs a piece would scale those numbers up
accordingly.
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