Martin wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> [...]
>> There is an emergency.
>>
>> I conclude that there is not any acceptable disaster recovery
>> plan.
>>
>> I think that is enough evidence.
>
>
> Except that there is no 'emergency'.
I'm not the one who used that word. I repeat it, because
that is the claim of those defending the current situation.
> Life goes on without disruption.
GIMPS is not life. At least, not mine.
> For gimps, there's a minor delay for those whom do not wish to change
> their software.
[...]
> Please give a little patience for what is a volunteer project?
>
> Or donate a pair of redundant servers?
You have the shoe upon the wrong foot. GIMPS has requested,
and I have provided, free of charge, CPU cycles, time, effort,
money, and wear and tear on my machine, already.
In return, I think it is reasonable to expect something
back from GIMPS, including reasonable planning for failures.
For myself, I've never bothered to review the stats, and
don't care about them.
What I do care about is that there are members of the GIMPS
project who DO care, and who are seemingly being treated in a cavalier
manner. Also, that there seems to be complete incomprehension
of what constitutes a reasonable manner of managing this project,
in this particular regard.
Also, I don't want my contribution to the project to become a burnt
disc drive with no data on it.
On the point of "donating another pair of servers", I suppose
you mean more hardware. As I have repeatedly stated here, more
hardware is not necessary to run the v4 server software. If the
hardware is capable of running v5, then it is capable of running
v4 concurrently, almost surely. Having run such kinds of software
myself, I find it difficult to imagine it would place an unreasonable
load on the hardware to run both v4 and v5 server software on it
concurrently. I'm not intimately familiar with this particular
software, so there is a possibility that it would unduly tax
the existing hardware, but I find that difficult to consider
as being very probable.
Mike
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