can those of you that are using a dc stat bar, and have boinc project stats in it check your stats....i'm curious to see if things appear to be working as intended.  they should be updated to whatever they were about 5 hours ago.

Let me look here..

Mine looks right..

Scratch that yesterdays stats..

good

Woops, yesterdays stats though..

i had a feeling about that

*takes a deep breath, and adds seti to the database*


 



updating almost all currently active boinc projects took 1403 seconds.....  any bets on whether seti will take more, or less then that?   for a bit of perspective, the project that took the longest took 1/3 of that time, and has a filesize of data about 1/4 that of seti....

  Pinky needs a quad...

pinky has no money for quad

Neither does LoCatus...   

intel supposed to cut prices later this month....though i don't need a quad that badly.

1403 for almost all boinc projects (minus seti and 2 small projects whose sites were down)....




2347 for seti alone



over an hour to do a simple update, and that was only boinc projects....makes you wonder how the more complex stat sites run things.  free-dc stats must be pretty crazy, considering....  

What chance that the stats are not all updated in one batch? 

Orrrrrrr ...

There's another source of stats for those projects that's either better connected or simply sends things in a more compact format.

they probably aren't all updated in one batch....but they would have to update them all over time regardless.  free-dc updates multiple times a day, so they have to keep some form of scheduling down.  mine is set to update every 6 hours, and only if there is a new timestamp on the file.


no on another source for stats - if you follow some of the new boinc project forums, you'll see the stat people gathering in a thread waiting for when the stat files will be available for 3rd party stat sites.   same stat files i'm using...an xml version of everyone's stats, g-zipped. 

Mebbe they just spend a packet on hardware then?    Who knows, maybe they even have a "deal" going to get better abndwidth or sommat.

more likely they have "real" servers...check the monthly cost of free-dc http://stats.free-dc.org/new/projpage.php?proj=dimes (under the paypal button)


that much probably gets them a dedicated dual core server in a nice data center

Conspiracy!  That's it.  It's a conspiracy!!

 

ooo, clovertown http://www.theplanet.com/dedicated-servers/default.asp?Class=Perf

1099 ... is that all? That's a "buy it and take it home" piece of gear?  I've gotta be missing somthing here. 

no....   that's a "you give them 1099 a month, and they'll let you run it remotely" price....

I think they can keep it.

$1099 a month ... oh yeah I'll just pull that out the back of my a$$ and ... 

  hmmm.. $1099 a month=construction of 12 Tigers a year.

Must be nice to have $$$$...   I'm lucky if I can get all the bits for one rig in less than 5months. 

Dual clovers ...  ... how well would that crunch?

i don't know....you should borrow mrs fing's credit card and find out  

Mrs Fing has no credit card that would be capable of being used for the purchase.

Somehow all the card offers she gets in the mail somehow mysteriously fall in the shredder.