Brian the Fist
03-16-2002, 01:36 AM
Hello all,
I just wanted to take a moment to point out the cause of the server trouble. I am shocked that everyone is so upset over this but anyways because the new protein builds about 5x faster than the first one, our puny server cannot deal with the load and cannot handle all the uploads it is receiving, hence the Unable to Contact Server messages some of you have been receiving. It has around 25 uploads coming in simultaneously non-stop (as opposed to 3-4 beforehand).
Unfortunately we do not have the funding right now to get a newer more powerful server (I've found a nice Dual-P4 Xeon server available for about $2500 US) so what I intend to do is change the upload period to 25000 instead of 5000 for this protein. If those of you running on many CPUs apply this patch (when I provide it) it will hopefully ease the load on the server. If not, I can assure you that when we switch to the next protein I'll choose a larger one and it should work as smooth as it was before the new protein.
Incidentally, I've fixed two or three bugs with the auto-update - this was the first large scale test of it. Of course the auto-update that you got (one way or another) won't have these fixes so the bug is still there, but in the NEXT next auto-update it should work quite well I hope. In other words You will probably have to do one more manual update to get the auto-update fixes.
Anyhow, I will attempt to get a version out Monday with these auto-update fixes and with the 25000 upload period and hopefully that will improve things.
Sorry for the inconvenience and we hope you will be patient while we do our best to improve things.
Please pass this info on to other Forums if you participate in some others.
I just wanted to take a moment to point out the cause of the server trouble. I am shocked that everyone is so upset over this but anyways because the new protein builds about 5x faster than the first one, our puny server cannot deal with the load and cannot handle all the uploads it is receiving, hence the Unable to Contact Server messages some of you have been receiving. It has around 25 uploads coming in simultaneously non-stop (as opposed to 3-4 beforehand).
Unfortunately we do not have the funding right now to get a newer more powerful server (I've found a nice Dual-P4 Xeon server available for about $2500 US) so what I intend to do is change the upload period to 25000 instead of 5000 for this protein. If those of you running on many CPUs apply this patch (when I provide it) it will hopefully ease the load on the server. If not, I can assure you that when we switch to the next protein I'll choose a larger one and it should work as smooth as it was before the new protein.
Incidentally, I've fixed two or three bugs with the auto-update - this was the first large scale test of it. Of course the auto-update that you got (one way or another) won't have these fixes so the bug is still there, but in the NEXT next auto-update it should work quite well I hope. In other words You will probably have to do one more manual update to get the auto-update fixes.
Anyhow, I will attempt to get a version out Monday with these auto-update fixes and with the 25000 upload period and hopefully that will improve things.
Sorry for the inconvenience and we hope you will be patient while we do our best to improve things.
Please pass this info on to other Forums if you participate in some others.