In article <odysseus1479-at-AEFEE0.20401212112007@news.telus.net>,
Odysseus  <odysseus1479-at@yahoo-dot.ca> wrote:

In article <4738c772$1@news2.actrix.gen.nz>,
"~misfit~" <misfitnz@yahoot.com.au> wrote:

Patrick Vervoorn wrote:

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It's indeed frighteningly quiet in here. Hopefully that's because
everything SetiBOINC related is running smoothly and without any
problems for everyone. ;)

Hopefully.

Have you browsed the Web forums recently? There's an enormous amount of 
traffic there, even though it only represents a small fraction of the 
user base. Most of the technical problems can be attributed to the 
mostly aging, donated or recycled, and bodged-together servers in the 
back end, and the lack of staff to simultaneously nurse these systems 
along and advance the project's software-development and 
results-analysis efforts. There's a saying, something to do with 
alligators and a drainage project ... ;)

Yeah, I usually check the Seti status page, and the forum behind it. Seti 
has been running pretty stable for the last few months (for me that means: 
at most outages of a few days). However, before that, they had some 
outages which lasted from 3-4 days up to a week. Those outages are also 
what prompted me to configure BOINC to get work for 5.0 days, and cache 
another 4.0 days of work on top of that. This is working quite nicely 
since the 5.10.x BOINC client.

Regards,

Patrick.