The roundrobin...

[TwoFace]

Ok... I know I read a lot about the round robin for taking the stress off of mikas but I couldn't find anything about what address to point the clients to.. I wouldn't mind using the roundrobins as long as I could still check my stats at Mikas but I don't know how ... BTW: I currently flush to teamanandtech.dhs.org is that one of the roundrobin addresses??

 

[Joe O]

Look here for info: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=198453

The address you have goes directly to Mika.

If you submit work to the rr it will in turn submit to Mika, so that you can see your stats at Mika.

 

[TwoFace]

Oki thanks... missed that one I guess

Anyway am I right in thinking the hosts working for this participant feature won't work anymore if I switch my "herd" (not much but some anyway) over to the roundrobin? It won't matter so much for the home machines but since I still can keep my others on Mikas that's no real problem except for the stress they cause Mikas that is...

 

[Jator]

TwoFace,

Some of the round robins have stats pages like me and bphantom to name a few. Somewhere is listed the rr status page, can't remember the address of the top of my head. You are always welcome to select my pproxy if you want to get host stats, but it also defeats the purpose of the rr if you select and individual one. The choice is yours.

Jay

 

[bphantom]

The Team AnandTech PProxy Status page lists the seperate baby bovines and also has a list of proxies with stats pages. Enjoy!

http://www.iodbbs.com/tappstatus.html

Brad..

 

[TwoFace]

Jay: Yeah I know it defeats the purpose that's why I asked... I'm really not that concerned about that for my home machines but I'm tracking the one (for now) at work through the hostnames thing... that's why it's interesting... think I'll switch my home machines over to the RR tho' ... BTW: how often do the BB (babybovines) flush to Mikas?

bphantom: Gee... THX! That's cool and went straight to my bookmarks

 

[BoberFett]

TwoFace

The proxies are all probably configured slightly differently. Mine checks the in and out buffers every 10 minutes and connects when the numbers are beyond the threshold. I think right now it's set to flush RC5 if it has more than 50 blocks, and OGR more than 20 stubs.

Edit: Oops, 20 stubs.

 

[TwoFace]

BoberFett

Thanks man... if the others have got the same/a similar setup then that means the delay to mikas will only be a couple of minutes probably GREAT! Oh, BTW: isn't 50 blocks / 10 stubs kinda small output buffer? Even my little herd does more than that in one flush... Just my thinking ...

 

[BoberFett]

50 RC5 blocks is pretty small. Before OGR I had it set to 500. I have so little RC5 traffic because of OGR I don't want anyone's blocks to sit around for too long. And 20 OGR blocks can take an hour or two to accumulate. That's not too many flushes to Mika's.

Edit: Noticed that I typed 10 stubs before. It's 20.

 

[Viztech]

Don't forget that another benefit of using the RR is to help keep the cattle fed during an outage, as more proxy operators will increase the chances that somebody will be able to point to Dnet tempoarily to download blocks, while holding the out buffers until Mika can get back on line.
I proved that I could do this by editing the proxyper.ini file, add a minkeyesdone=xxxxxx and using ctrl+break of the PProxy to switch keyservers on the run. I was able to hold tens of thousands of blocks without flushing, but could download from Dnet keyservers in the process.

viz

 

[TwoFace]

BoberFett: Yeah, 20 is more like it

viztech: That's why I'd want to participate in the RR because the last time Mikas was down I had a hell of a time with blocks being dumped to DNet directly and stuff... Anyaway that's why I still dump manually... not too cool that... kinda tiring actually