[Tilesathome] Fw: Upload queue

[Milenko]

Forwarded to the list since I forgot to hit reply to all.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Schmidt" <crschmidt at metacarta.com>
To: <milenko at king-nerd.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Tilesathome] Upload queue


> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:02:18PM -0500, milenko at king-nerd.com wrote:
>> What kind of hardware is needed?  Is there a wishlist somewhere of some 
>> specific hardware needs for some of the ongoing projects?  I have access 
>> to some server hardware and a stable net connection at work - nothing 
>> crazy like what you've been able to offer, but if there are some specific 
>> needs that could be filled by people like myself maybe we could reduce 
>> the load on hypercube.
>
> Right now, I'm not entirely sure what we need. I know that the disks are
> too slow. Ideally, we'd have a super-fast locally connected RAID. The
> ones at work are two orders of magnitude faster and an order of
> magnitude bigger... but I don't have a clue what size the box actually
> *is*, or what kind of hardware connections we have inside of it.
>
> My local hardware contact (the one who got the boxes on the first place)
> is on vaccation in New Mexico building a music studio. Until he gets
> back, I'm just twiddling my thumbs: but note that at the time you sent
> this email, t at h was processing 6 times as many tilesets per hour as it
> typically did on dev. So, the fact that the queue is always full is
> likely just a sign that more tilesets are actually being uploaded:
> clients are doing more. This is (in part) because the tilesets are
> largely 404-handler tiles, so they're less full than manually requested
> ones. It may also be the result of more clients coming online: I can't
> be sure.
>
> So, overall: the service is moving quickly. The server is processing
> more than it ever has from clients. The clients are blocking more on the
> server, and thats regrettable, but I'm going to work to do what I can to
> improve that: right now, I dno't know what I need, but I'll let others
> know as soon as I find out.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
>
>
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