Posted 2077 days ago by
Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
well, they've made me disable work requests for the time being - just as another projects odd huge credits have
Posted 2084 days ago by
Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Personally I don't find it a nice extra reward. Other projects have wu's that are way longer, and reliable stats are impossible to create - there are enough bogus credits already (dare I say CPDN)
Well, but projects with much longer WUs do grant over 1000 credits for those. ;-)
I have yet to see SETI, Einstein and QMC grant 1000 for one wu lasting less than 8 days active CPU time ;)
Although I have to agree that credit output per hour can vary a lot from project to project. But that can also depend on what OS you're running or what CPU you're using.
Well, one thing is varying credit/hour - they are normally miniscule - but a jump from approx. 110-120 for 24 hours work to 1000 for the same 24 hours of work is huge - I don't mind having a 10GFlop computer, but it should be actual 10GFlop, not 3GFlop bloated to 10 just for show ;)
Posted 2085 days ago by
Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
pardon my french, but that just sounds childish to me ;) Pretty soon, then, people would abort the short ones as they don't get you much credit - and people will only return results that would give 1k *lol*
But there are way more short WUs than long ones. And there are many people who don't like WUs taking over 24 hours.
Plus it's a nice extra reward when having finished one of the "monsters". :-)
Personally I don't find it a nice extra reward. Other projects have wu's that are way longer, and reliable stats are impossible to create - there are enough bogus credits already (dare I say CPDN)
Posted 2086 days ago by
Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
pardon my french, but that just sounds childish to me ;) Pretty soon, then, people would abort the short ones as they don't get you much credit - and people will only return results that would give 1k *lol*
Posted 2086 days ago by
Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
Just got one of those surprices - and wonder :) I took a look at the wu, and the other host spent 91k seconds - way longer than mine - and that amounts to approx. 25 hours. I've heard of overclaiming, but not overgranting ;)
Posted 2306 days ago by
Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
I've spent the last few days checking everything was working correctly, and it seems so. This is what happened Sunday:
Around 10 am local time, the database drive stalled once again, and I shut down the system, knowing I was going to correct things later.
Around 3 pm local time, I had moved everything to my work area, and wanted to start up to test everything would work fine when attempting to do the drive switch. But now the database drive box didn't start at all - no fan, no light, nothing. The other one seemed to start as usual. I thought it might be the power supply, so I switch to the other power supply - this time the box started, but I really didn't like the sound, so I turned it off quickly. The other box didn't like the power supply from the database drive box.
So, now I had two drives that I didn't know if I could even get working. Anyway, with two drives to switch and only two drives to replace them, I could wave goodbye to my RAID plans. The only hope I had was that it was the external boxes that were failing, not the hard drives themselves. And it turned out to be just that. So after I had copied the database drive successfully, I made the sites available again while copying the other drives - before moving things back where they belong.
Posted 2312 days ago by
Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt
For those who haven't read the BOS RSS feed, the BOS message boards or the ESEA message boards, here some info:
The hard drive containing the databases has been giving trouble these last few days. It is close to give up. I have two hard drives which was planned to be used as a replacement for the boot/system drive, but this is more important right now. So this weekend I will spend some time replacing the database drive. I will try to build a RAID with these two new hard drives, but this may take some time, as it is the first RAID I've ever made. Keeping all data/programs completely intact during the process is an extra task, and may make it take a bit longer, as I don't have a third clean hard drive to save things on. But I'll do my best to do this as fast as possible. If all things go wrong I have back-ups.
So, just so you know, the BOS site and services and the ESEA site will be down for a while this weekend.