Jeff Woods wrote:
>
> Dave has at least 80 exponents reserved between 2.4M and
> 3.99M. Eighty. Almost all are less than suspected M37. It is a
> certainty that without poaching, we will have to wait until late 2000 or
> later to prove M37, because Dave is trying to do all the double-checking
> singlehandedly.
>
> [alot more]
Some time ago I used to poach, too, taking exponents that were due to
expire within 3-5 days and finish them with some leftover PII-400 power,
but I stopped when the "evil, evil poaching thread" arose (lets not
revive it).
Back in those days, I too noticed this "diamonddave" hogging dozens of
exponents (I think I even poached one or two) but as I watched him over
a longer period of time, I noticed that he actually finished his
assigned work quickly and effectively, much more so than the heap of
assigned exponents and the number of machines we see lead to believe. He
(I believe his real name is David Campeau (sp?)) seems to have enough
horsepower to finish the reserved exponents in time, and what I remember
from an old posting of his, he actually does it to avoid those small
exponents again getting assigned to users who won't finish them, or only
very slowly.
I stopped worrying about diamonddave, its assignments like
2569667 D 60 52.6 105.2 105.2 20-Jan-00 21:28
14-Dec-99 03:00 Z
2593697 D 60 1482152 322.6 -35.7 24.3 19-Dec-99 01:17
19-Mar-99 03:23 philboy
2593793 D 60 322.6 -8.7 40.3 19-Dec-99 01:17
19-Mar-99 03:23 philboy
2861897 D 60 446026 293.5 -21.0 39.0 05-Jan-00 16:32
17-Apr-99 05:22 SW
2941837 D 60 45517 133.5 -58.3 1.7 26-Nov-99 10:20
24-Sep-99 06:47 gallina
that bother me. I actually hope diamonddave will grab them when they
expire, and not an user who will again take >300 days for a exponent
(and possibly not even finish it).
Ciao,
Alex.
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