Hi Howard

[DATA]

it looks like all the probs are revolving round your server - ppl on this forum and others have shown an interest to help you out - befor i go on please stay a minute and let me put some thing to you

Tom
S-MDC_TRUST
of TEAM 3DHQ

[Dyyryath]

Hey Data (and Howard!),

If you have an IRC client, drop by irc.free-dc.org:6667. If you don't you can use a web-based client by going to this page (http://www.free-dc.org/chat/).

Crabbleboys was in earlier on the Java client and said it worked fine for him.

[DATA]

Hi ppl
was not quick enough to catch him my apologies

but if we can come up with some proposition that we would like to put to Howard i have no probs in acting as the go between as like yourselves i want this project to succeed - IMHO it has great future potential once we can get the server issue resolved

i spent quite a bit of time yesterday speaking to Howard by email and to all accounts and purposes he is a very genuine dedicated individual and this has earned him my respect and to this end i am prepared to chip in £ sterling towards getting them a server that will do the job that we all love doing -- crunching for the potential benefits to the human race

ideas and suggestion now wanted - but be it known no one is under any pressure - everyone has circumstances and commitments

and i think my guardian angel followed me here so hands off she mine :cool: :D :D

[Dyyryath]

Suggestions for fixing some of the issues we are seeing right now will require a little more information on precisely what kind of setup they are using right now. Do you think he'd be willing to provide people outside of the project group with this information?

Ideally, I'd like to know:

1) Any details about the hardware and OS he's using.

2) How many concurrent connections he's seeing.

3) What kind of process is he using to handle those connections? If he's under Linux (which I'm guessing from previous comments) is he running a standalone daemon or is launching from inetd or some other super-server?

4) Is network bandwidth a problem?

5) Could the upload process be distributed across multiple systems? How about using remote proxies to his server.

6) Is he using/has he considered data compression?

We need to nail down exactly where the bottleneck is (and where future ones may be) before we can figure out what steps might be available to fix it.

Obviously, a bigger nastier server would help. However, there may also be other things that we can do to make the process go a little smoother.

[DATA]

so that no one here is kept in the dark i have sent Howard the following email

Hi Howard

unfortunately your site is down cannot get access - will keep trying

myself and other wish to help you and your project would you be willing to
consider/accept some advice/help from ppl who care about you and your
project and have a desire to see it succeed

woul be obliged if you could let me know on this before i persue it further
over at FreeDC with Dyyryath and friends

tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian the Fist" <feldman@mshri.on.ca>
To: "tom" <tom@s-mdc.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: re the new phase of your project


> tom wrote:
> >
> > Hi Howard
> >
> > no probs send away and i will try - and get back to you
>
> I put it up already on www.distibutedfolding.org so please try it and let
me
> know - get the 'executable update only'
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------
> Howard Feldman, Author of The Search for Freedom
> A Computer Fantasy Role-Playing Game
> Visit its Homepage at http://bioinfo.mshri.on.ca/people/feldman/

i feel till such times as Howard responds we can do nothing - level of help will depend on the responce received

will advise and post reply as received

respects to you all for a job well done so far

Tom
DATA of the S-MDC_TRUST
TEAM 2DHQ

now where is my angel :cool: can't leave her behind :D

[Dyyryath]

Thanks for the update, Data. You're the man!

*Dyyryath quickly closes the closet door and coughs loudly to cover up the sound of bumping behind it*

Angel? What angel? :D :D

[DATA]

Hi Dyyryath and friends

this is the reply i have just received from Howard
unfortunately i ahve to go out for about an hour so feel free to contact him with you tech ? and see how he reponds - will pop over when i get back

Respects
Tom
DATA of the S-MDC_TRUST
TEAM 3DHQ


tom wrote:
>
> Hi Howard
>
> unfortunately your site is down cannot get access - will keep trying

The web site is working file but ive emailed it to ya here.

> myself and other wish to help you and your project would you be willing to
> consider/accept some advice/help from ppl who care about you and your
> project and have a desire to see it succeed
>
> woul be obliged if you could let me know on this before i persue it further
> over at FreeDC with Dyyryath and friends

Im always willing to listen to people's advice/help though of course I make no
guarantees Ill follow it ;) Anyways, I think this will fix the problem for
now so let me know

--
----------------------------------------------
Howard Feldman, Author of The Search for Freedom
A Computer Fantasy Role-Playing Game
Visit its Homepage at http://bioinfo.mshri.on.ca/people/feldman/

[dnar]

Originally posted by Dyyryath

6) Is he using/has he considered data compression?

The data is already compressed. bz2 files are a compressed format.

[Dyyryath]

Yeah, I've done quite a bit of snooping since I originally posted that.

In fact, I think I know where the problem is now...