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Inactive seti members should go dormant!
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Jaaku Send message Joined: 29 Oct 02 Posts: 494 Credit: 346,224 RAC: 0 |
Inactive seti members should go dormant, this will save SETI a bit of HDD space and alot of bandwith. There are alot of members that dont do SETI anymore but may rejoin, if they go dormant there details are recorded and stored but not made into a webpage until reactivated. this could happen if they are inactive or 6 monthes or so. The should also be a button or something which allows you to delete you area, this will help reduce inactive members. But also if they are inactive for say 3 years an email is sent to them saying that there account will be deleted in 6 monthes. Help keep BOINCS servers, stats and website clean and reduce its stress. :D |
Toby Send message Joined: 26 Oct 00 Posts: 1005 Credit: 6,366,949 RAC: 0 |
Absolutely! This would greatly reduce the strain on people doing stats sites (such as myself). To get all the users I have to download a 150 MB file which unzips to 1 GB and takes forever to insert into a database. I greatly reduced the workload by ignoring users and teams with 0 total credit but it would be nice to see things cleaned up a bit on their end and I think it would help their performance a bit as well. Not to mention their bandwidth once a lot of people start doing their own stats sites/programs. I do believe that they ignored seti-classic accounts with 0 credit since the users file now only has 3.3 million users in it (give or take 100 thousand :) and the total number of classic accounts is over 5 million. This was definitely a good move. |
Jaaku Send message Joined: 29 Oct 02 Posts: 494 Credit: 346,224 RAC: 0 |
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Keck_Komputers Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 1575 Credit: 4,152,111 RAC: 1 |
One advantage of taking every name from the old database is that when the time comes to send individual emails out we may get some of those inactive people back to crunching. John Keck BOINCing since 2002/12/08 |
[AF>HFR>BZHWDT] TetardKing Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 7 Credit: 1,955,711 RAC: 0 |
It's not a sloution, emails are NOT in those XML file. I agree with Toby, I don't manage those users in my website. And save a lot of HDD space in my database : http://sahstats.boinc.fr/ http://sahstats.boinc.Fr |
Toby Send message Joined: 26 Oct 00 Posts: 1005 Credit: 6,366,949 RAC: 0 |
Well, good news. It seems someone at Berkeley either read this post or got smart all by themselves. as of yesterday, all zero members/teams are no longer in the XML files. Result: 1 GB file -> 6.8 MB And there was much rejoicing! My database updates take 2 minutes now instead of 20 :) |
Nightowl- i5-750 Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 202 Credit: 5,057,974 RAC: 0 |
> Well, good news. It seems someone at Berkeley either read this post or got > smart all by themselves. as of yesterday, all zero members/teams are no > longer in the XML files. > > Result: 1 GB file -> 6.8 MB > > And there was much rejoicing! My database updates take 2 minutes now instead > of 20 :) > > i too was happy to see this... ttyl Jeff (Nightowl) |
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