Re: Mersenne: Prime Net Server
Aaron, you´re right. I had to check in a result and if you have to use the manual way to do this and if you have to pay per minute for every internet connection than it´s wiry that the server is down for days and nobody told you that this was planned or not planned and when the server will be available again. Regards Achim -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Aaron Blosser An: Mersenne@Base. Com Gesendet: Montag, 10. September 2001 17:21 Betreff: Re: Mersenne: Prime Net Server The thing is that even a 2-3 day outage is no big deal, because if we are all responsible GIMPSers, then we have our "days of work" configuration set to more than a couple days worth, right? So the worst that should have happened is that you have a result to check back in and have to wait for that while the next number is already crunching. :) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 10:34 PM Subject: AW: Mersenne: Prime Net Server I beg your pardon: you didn´t really expect to get informed about a planned outage BEFORE it happens or a crash AFTER it happened, did you? If you did expect this, then you should have joined another distributed-computing project like SETI. They do inform their participants about such things. But people who are cool enough to find million-digit-primes should be able to find out that the server is down the whole weekend. Well, you have to pay for it (in Germany), but who cares? Such an outage didn´t occur for the first time in my (nearly) three years supporting GIMPS and others will follow. May be that´s one reason why GIMPS lost about 8.000 to 9.000 machines during the last six months. Regards Achim Ursprüngliche Nachricht-Von: Matt Goodrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Gesendet: Samstag, 8. September 2001 21:36An: Mersenne List (E-mail)Betreff: Mersenne: Prime Net Server Is there scheduled maint. going on with the server today, or is this a unscheduled outage? Matt
Re: Mersenne: Prime Net Server
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:56:34 +0200, "Jörg Thomsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi, > >it isn't that easy at all. The default parameter for networkretries is, afaik, 10 >minutes. So >most clients try to connect every 10 minutes until thy got a timeout. And the timeout >seems to be >very long :-/. I think we loose much power on these gimpsserver fails. > > > Regards > Jörg However, AFAIK, the client continues working while it is trying to connect; it's multithreaded. As Aaron said, by default more than enough work is cached to get you through these sorts of outages. Nathan _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Prime Net Server
John R Pierce wrote: > I dunno, I've let about 1/2 my machines drop out, they were mostly p133 and > below, they've been replaced with fewer much faster machines. My P133 is still doing useful GIMPS work; just not very fast. Cheers... Russ _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Prime Net Server
Hi, it isn't that easy at all. The default parameter for networkretries is, afaik, 10 minutes. So most clients try to connect every 10 minutes until thy got a timeout. And the timeout seems to be very long :-/. I think we loose much power on these gimpsserver fails. Regards Jörg --Original Message Text--- From: Aaron Blosser Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:21:57 -0700 The thing is that even a 2-3 day outage is no big deal, because if we are all responsible GIMPSers, then we have our "days of work" configuration set to more than a couple days worth, right? So the worst that should have happened is that you have a result to check back in and have to wait for that while the next number is already crunching. :) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 10:34 PM Subject: AW: Mersenne: Prime Net Server I beg your pardon: you didn´t really expect to get informed about a planned outage BEFORE it happens or a crash AFTER it happened, did you? If you did expect this, then you should have joined another distributed-computing project like SETI. They do inform their participants about such things. But people who are cool enough to find million-digit-primes should be able to find out that the server is down the whole weekend. Well, you have to pay for it (in Germany), but who cares? Such an outage didn´t occur for the first time in my (nearly) three years supporting GIMPS and others will follow. May be that´s one reason why GIMPS lost about 8.000 to 9.000 machines during the last six months. Regards Achim Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Matt Goodrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Samstag, 8. September 2001 21:36 An: Mersenne List (E-mail) Betreff: Mersenne: Prime Net Server Is there scheduled maint. going on with the server today, or is this a unscheduled outage? Matt PGP signature
Re: Mersenne: Prime Net Server
The thing is that even a 2-3 day outage is no big deal, because if we are all responsible GIMPSers, then we have our "days of work" configuration set to more than a couple days worth, right? So the worst that should have happened is that you have a result to check back in and have to wait for that while the next number is already crunching. :) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 10:34 PM Subject: AW: Mersenne: Prime Net Server I beg your pardon: you didn´t really expect to get informed about a planned outage BEFORE it happens or a crash AFTER it happened, did you? If you did expect this, then you should have joined another distributed-computing project like SETI. They do inform their participants about such things. But people who are cool enough to find million-digit-primes should be able to find out that the server is down the whole weekend. Well, you have to pay for it (in Germany), but who cares? Such an outage didn´t occur for the first time in my (nearly) three years supporting GIMPS and others will follow. May be that´s one reason why GIMPS lost about 8.000 to 9.000 machines during the last six months. Regards Achim Ursprüngliche Nachricht-Von: Matt Goodrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Gesendet: Samstag, 8. September 2001 21:36An: Mersenne List (E-mail)Betreff: Mersenne: Prime Net Server Is there scheduled maint. going on with the server today, or is this a unscheduled outage? Matt
Re: Mersenne: Prime Net Server
> Such an outage didn´t occur for the first time in my (nearly) > three years supporting GIMPS and others will follow. May be that´s > one reason why GIMPS lost about 8.000 to 9.000 machines during the last six months. I dunno, I've let about 1/2 my machines drop out, they were mostly p133 and below, they've been replaced with fewer much faster machines. _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
