(Commenting on a now-locked
ODLK forum thread)
VietOZ at the ODLK forum said:
There are 5 Sprints left
possible projects are ODLK, ODLK1, Amicable, NFS, NF, and SRBase. Cosmo is up and down, T.Brada hosted on a Rpi. Seti and Enigma are dead. Yafu won't have enough work. And Gerasism is only Windows.
What's so hard to predict?
@VietOZ, two comments:
1.) Not only the T.Brada server, but also the ОДЛК server and, from what I remember, the Latinsquares server are too small to support a Formula BOINC sprint.
The ОДЛК server is already struggling under day-to-day load, and they don't even have Gridcoin on board. As you know, ОДЛК is one of the project I am running lately, and while I don't check my client logs frequently, I did see several occasions of the scheduler responding that the feeder was not running. This condition was only transient, whenever I saw it. Therefore I guess these were not an actual crashes of the feeder, but just inability to respond in time. The web site is always laggy too whenever a database query is involved, naturally.
2.) YAFU always has work. It is always generating new work, for all of its current subprojects. (My info is from end of August, this certainly hasn't changed.) But granted, if a user is keen on running one or two of the subprojects specifically, then he may often need to wait for the work generator to catch up. Hence, it is possible that YAFU is unable to properly support a sprint at 2020 levels too, if the work generator can't/won't be sped up for the sprint.
VietOZ at the ODLK forum said:
When Rake Sprint got pick, nobody has work but TaaT. Lucky? maybe ... shady? maybe. Nobody knows
My understanding is that you were highlighting that we don't know all the facts and shouldn't be quick to jump to conclusions. [I took this quote out of
context.]
Here is some additional info on the RakeSearch sprint:
– As far as I know, TeAm AnandTech was not among the teams who voted for this project.
– As you probably know, 1/3rd of the RakeSearch work was distributed during the first single hour after the sprint announcement. America was awake at that time, I was sound asleep. The remaining 2/3rds of the work was distributed several hours later. Apparently most Americans were asleep then. I was awake, but had to leave for work and was therefore there for most but not all of the second window of work availability. In addition, I did not know at this point that this was the very last work. I just aimed to load as much work to last me until ~mid Friday (central European time), such that I could use Friday morning for reloading my computers (which then couldn't happen of course).
Regarding jumping to conclusions:
You once sounded sure when you assumed that the output of one of our users in an earlier sprint was from a multi-day bunker, when it was really just their daily output. Stoneageman once presented as fact that PDW was helping us in an FB sprint, when he wasn't. (Edit, AFAIK he never was with us in an FB contest.) Bluestang wrote that TeAm AnandTech "is known" to perform certain practices, which we don't. Well, I too am sometimes jumping to conclusions, but I generally try to remind myself that I don't know a lot and that there may be more possibilities to keep in consideration.
VietOZ at the ODLK forum said:
500k of tasks while it sounds like a lot ...
For the ОДЛК server, it
is a lot, AFAICT.
VietOZ at the ODLK forum said:
but with the current hardware that teams are having, it's not that much. xii5ku was averaging 700k / day on here (maybe higher... but i'm just doing an example) ... so that's like 70k of WUs he can process per day. A 7 days bunker he can finish 490k of WUs just by himself if he thinks ODLK can be pick.
You are taking xii5ku just as an example; it is flawed though in the regard that xii5ku would not build a multi-day bunker at a project like ОДЛК.