De fanatieke DPC'er zal weten dat we gisteren een massale Sinterflush actie hebben gepland. Vandaag zouden hiervan de resultaten bekend moeten worden, ware het niet dat Distributed.net (weer eens) een bommetje onder de eigen statsbox heeft gelegd. Jim Nashy aka Decibel spreekt ons toe in zijn .plan update:
"Uhoh."- Number one thing you don't want to hear a stats person say while testing new statsrun code
For all you stats-junkies that noticed, stats was down for several hours. I had changed the queries that insert new participants into the main participants table in the interest of cleaner and faster code.
Unfortunately, what should have been a relatively simple change didn't work. The net result was that some 13,000 emails were added to STATS_participant even thought they were already in the table. This is a BadThing(tm).
To make matters worse, while deleting the duplicated records, I 'went a bit too far', and deleted new rc5-64 participants from yesterday (57 people all told). I was able to add these records back in, but any changes made to these records during the day yesterday (such as joining a team, setting up your friends, adding a motto, etc.) were lost.
Anyway, everything is pretty much back in one piece again. Sorry for all the cowfusion!
On a different note, as Nugget mentioned, we found out what was slowing statsbox to a crawl before. It was a change made right before the slowdown that really shouldn't have had the impact that it did. The only thing we can figure is that the change was just enough to cause sybase to start turning over it's internal cache at a very rapid rate. Another BadThing(tm).
Bruce, Nugget, and I came up with a plan for fixing this on a more long-term basis, which we should be implementing sometime this week. Once we do implement that change, we should be able to make some other changes that should speed up the statsrun.
RC5 stats are now running, and I've got apache disabled to speed them up as much as possible. Stats should be back up in an hour or two.
Thanks as always for your patience.
De statistieken zijn inmidels weer online, alleen is de oogst van gisteren nog niet verwerkt 
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Voor het geval je me nu vaag vindt blaten: check hier de info over hoe je de Dutch Power Cows kunt joinen!
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