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check your OGR buffers!

sciencewhiz

Diamond Member
From Bovine's latest plan:



<< As it turns out, OGR25 is also approaching the time where we need to
manually reissue the remaining unreturned stubs necessary to complete both
of its first and second passes. We've decided not to begin issuing OGR26
merely so that we can focus more intently on getting the existing OGR24
and OGR25 stub spaces fully finished off. Because of this, we'll be
reducing the release rate of new OGR stubs (OGR24 and OGR25) into the
system so that we can give those outstanding stubs as much time as possible
to be handed in by themselves. Since the outgoing availability of OGR
stubs will now be much less, you may find that your client may return to
working on the RC5 project.
>>



This means is that if you have any clients with the project prioritity for rc5 set to 0 , they will stop working if there aren't any stubs availible.

It is unescesary to disable RC5. You will continue to work on OGR until the buffers run out and then you will switch to RC5. To make sure you don't switch to RC5 too often, use either a dialup detection option or a frequent buffer level checking option to ensure that OGR work is uploaded and downloaded before the client would normally start working on RC5. This way, even if you can't get OGR blocks, your client will crack RC5 instead of doing nothing.

edit: tried to clarify a few things (I wrote this to late last night)
edit2: clarified things more per jon's suggestion
 
Sciencewhiz, as long as it doesn't say RC5=0, it shouldn't matter what order the contests are listed in. If the buff-in.ogr goes dry (8 bytes) then the client will switch to RC5. The OGR team members are at an advantage here because OGR is the preferred contest and we never had to actually do anything for OGR to start.

 
The main intent of the message was to make sure people hadn't disabled RC5. I seem to remember at least a few people (myself included), in the beginning, recommending setting rc5=0. That would have worked until now.

The rest of the message was just several ways to make sure the OGR buffers stay updated.

I'll try to edit the message again so that that is clear.
 
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