You may notice that the stats graphs here on the Cowboy site change format from time to time. You might also notice that the tabular stats stop updating off and on.
The reason is that I am working on a new version of Cowboy that won’t use so many CPU cycles when updating the pages here. Right now, updates bring the Cowboy server to its knees for 30-45 minutes, every 6 hours. When I test the new server software, it updates the stats site with different graphs and HTML.
I need it to capture lots of logs with the new software, so the old site will sometimes stop updating for a day or so – none of the logs are lost though. The old server processes them when I turn it back on.
Tests on the new software shows it can do the same job in about 3 minutes with little impact on the computer! I am getting rid of the old Nexus database and replacing it with MySQL.
Other stuff…
I just added a new OGR box named “Ferrari”, a
- dual
Core-2 Quad machine. Thats right – the equivalent of 8 CPU’s in a single box! It won’t be up full time until maybe Monday, but it should ramp up our team’s OGR rate a bit.
A quick run-up showed each core doing about 26 meganodes per second – not too shabby:
[Apr 10 22:57:25 UTC] Automatic processor detection found 8 processors.
[Apr 10 22:57:25 UTC] Loading crunchers with work…
[Apr 10 22:57:26 UTC] The keyserver says: “Moo from the new and improved
haystack.ivo.nu”
[Apr 10 22:57:26 UTC] Retrieved project state data from server. (cached)
[Apr 10 22:57:28 UTC] OGR-P2: Retrieved 28 packets from server.
[Apr 10 22:57:28 UTC] Automatic processor type detection found
an Intel Pentium III (Katmai) processor.
[Apr 10 22:57:28 UTC] OGR-P2: using core #3 (GARSP 6.0-asm-rt1-mmx).
[Apr 10 22:57:28 UTC] OGR-P2 #a: Loaded 25/11-23-6-2-28
[Apr 10 22:57:28 UTC] OGR-P2 #b: Loaded 25/11-23-6-2-30
[Apr 10 22:57:28 UTC] OGR-P2 #c: Loaded 25/11-23-6-2-33
[Apr 10 22:57:28 UTC] OGR-P2 #d: Loaded 25/11-23-6-2-50
[Apr 10 22:57:28 UTC] OGR-P2 #e: Loaded 25/11-23-6-2-51
[Apr 10 22:57:28 UTC] OGR-P2 #f: Loaded 25/11-23-6-2-52
[Apr 10 22:57:28 UTC] OGR-P2 #g: Loaded 25/11-23-6-2-53
[Apr 10 22:57:28 UTC] OGR-P2 #h: Loaded 25/11-23-6-2-54
[Apr 10 22:57:28 UTC] OGR-P2: 20 packets remain in buff-in.ogf
[Apr 10 22:57:28 UTC] OGR-P2: 0 packets are in buff-out.ogf
[Apr 10 22:57:28 UTC] 8 crunchers (’a'-’h') have been started.
[Apr 10 23:00:27 UTC] *Break* Shutting down…
[Apr 10 23:00:27 UTC] OGR-P2 #h: Saved 25/11-23-6-2-54 (4.79 Gnodes done)
0.00:02:59.23 – [26,697,614 nodes/s]
[Apr 10 23:00:27 UTC] OGR-P2 #g: Saved 25/11-23-6-2-53 (5.21 Gnodes done)
0.00:02:59.23 – [29,076,747 nodes/s]
[Apr 10 23:00:27 UTC] OGR-P2 #f: Saved 25/11-23-6-2-52 (5.12 Gnodes done)
0.00:02:59.23 – [28,564,086 nodes/s]
[Apr 10 23:00:27 UTC] OGR-P2 #e: Saved 25/11-23-6-2-51 (4.79 Gnodes done)
0.00:02:59.23 – [26,741,590 nodes/s]
[Apr 10 23:00:27 UTC] OGR-P2 #d: Saved 25/11-23-6-2-50 (5.29 Gnodes done)
0.00:02:59.23 – [29,530,347 nodes/s]
[Apr 10 23:00:27 UTC] OGR-P2 #c: Saved 25/11-23-6-2-33 (4.65 Gnodes done)
0.00:02:59.23 – [25,916,046 nodes/s]
[Apr 10 23:00:27 UTC] OGR-P2 #b: Saved 25/11-23-6-2-30 (4.57 Gnodes done)
0.00:02:59.23 – [25,478,305 nodes/s]
[Apr 10 23:00:27 UTC] OGR-P2 #a: Saved 25/11-23-6-2-28 (5.12 Gnodes done)
0.00:02:59.23 – [28,540,177 nodes/s]
[Apr 10 23:00:27 UTC] OGR-P2: 28 packets are in buff-in.ogf
[Apr 10 23:00:27 UTC] OGR-P2: 0 packets are in buff-out.ogf
[Apr 10 23:00:27 UTC] Shutdown complete.
Kevin