Has there ever been any talk of moving the project's daily stats update (setiathome.berkeley.edu/stats) to before the Tuesday maintenance?
I think it would cause less variability in the "Credit/day" stats on website such as BoincStats.
Just a thought,
RobG :-}

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Not sure, but think scanning/exporting is part of the maintenance cycle.

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Not sure, but think scanning/exporting is part of the maintenance cycle.

It's one of the many BOINC Server Periodic tasks, specifically Exporting credit statistics with db_dump.

SETI follows the recommended 'once per day' cycle - other projects export stats more (or sometime less) often.

From troubleshooting exports at other projects, my understanding it that the interval is on an 'anniversary' basis - "24 hours after the BOINC server was last (re-)started, and repeat" - rather than on a 'calendar' ("at HH:MM each day") basis.

My guess is that the export would run quicker and with less server thrashing on a newly-compacted database, shortly after maintenance.

And in any case, Wednesday's stats simply make up for lost time on Tuesday.
I got used to this a long time ago.

Meow.

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And in any case, Wednesday's stats simply make up for lost time on Tuesday.
I got used to this a long time ago.

Meow.

+1

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