Ollie- U still around?

[reddog4629]

U still planning a large upload?

[Ollie Cook]

Yup! I got back to school today, so I'll check in the computer labs when I have a moment. Will report back soon.

Ollie

[bkehoe]

Does that mean a dump of 10 Gigablocks?

Brendan

[Ollie Cook]

Quite a lot to report:

1: The machines were left on over the holiday - so were crunching loads!

2: There are about 260,000 finished blocks on the proxy

3: The proxy was shut down about a week ago when the server it runs on was upgraded to Windows 2000. The school network administrators (my superiors in this respect), deemed that the proxy should not run 24/7.

4: Since then the clients have (obviously) been cracking randoms. By my estimations about 3000 randoms per workstation.

So... some good news ( ), some bad ( ).

I will need to reconfigure all the clients so that they grab a substantial number of blocks from the proxy when it's up (i will have to start it manually some afternoons...) to prevent massive random-attacks I guess.

As it happens, Neil (Systems Integrator), has said I shouldn't run the pproxy on CDNTS2 (the current p-proxy server), but I can run anything on any other machine I like. Therefore, I think I might just put the pproxy on another machine. Uptime will not be as reliable, but it's better than my previous plan I think.

Anyone got any better plans?

Ollie

P.S. I don't know why they don't want the proxy running 24/7.



[This message has been edited by Ollie Cook (edited 04-27-2000).]

[reddog4629]

The mother of all dumps coming soon.

[Ollie Cook]

Went to get the blocks off the proxy today and it was locked - bummer! I'll do it tomorrow.

Gotta do it soon, before d.net start redistributing the blocks (thanks brendan for pointing that out). However, it's only been 4 weeks, not the 90 days d.net stipulate. Am I correct in thinking it's 90 days on RC5? I know it was fewer days on the other shorter projects.

Ollie

[reddog4629]

So let it be written-so let it be done.

[bkehoe]

Still on schedule for today?

Brendan