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Re: SETI@home doesn't finish Data Units

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From: Paul V. Piescik
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00
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Have you been watching your connections, or doing it automatically?

I ask because you mentioned recorded 5 downloads bu lost 2 uploads.
What I've seen on my son's machine is that he's had downloads clobber
each other when he's had trouble connecting, but the uploads have all
gone OK.  IOW, two work units come down one after the other and the
software is not smart enough to figure out it already has one that's
not done.  You may also notice that when it's done, the 348K
work_unit.txt file is gone.

For the number of work units available, they've been recording 35
GB/day since either 30.10.1998 or 20.11.1998 (both dates appear in two
different places on their site).  Since they hand out 350K units
(nominally), that's about 100,000 units/day being gathered.

The last I saw they seemed to be handing them out at an average of
50,000/day, but these stats are really volatile--blink and you're
out-of-date!

On Tue, 25 May 1999 03:51:58 GMT, nospam@earthlink.net wrote:

>On Tue, 25 May 1999 02:36:16 GMT, poppybear@email.com (Paul V.
>Piescik) wrote:
>
>} They're garnered almost 300,000 users and sent out over 0.5 million
>} work units in the past 10 days.
> 
>Now that's impressive.  Even 300K 486's should be able to do some
>serious crunching.  No wonder I'm having problems with the server.  To
>date they have recorded my 5 downloads but they lost 2 of my uploads.
>With this much horsepower working for them though, they can afford to
>lose 2 out of 3.
>
>Find that the server is seriously ill in the mornings - makes sense.
>Probably hold my next uploads until evening.
>
>Any idea of the total number of work units they have ready to send
>out?
>
>Wf
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From: poppybear@email.com (Paul V. Piescik)
Subject: Re: SETI@home doesn't finish Data Units
Date: 1999/05/25
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