Quote Originally Posted by [XC] riptide View Post
Stuff it wasn't addressed to you to stuff 'something'. Clearly 'stuff it' has less conotations where I live than where you live.

And also about the caching. For caching to be a real concern we would see the entire project backlogged waiting for WU's to finish. There is no instance that I can remember this happening. For the project to be fundamentally limited to serial processing, this WOULD happen. Thats why everyone still get WU's when the servers are working. Everyone.

And furthermore, we wouldn't be talking about caching if the servers had a 100% uptime record. Or near to it. The onnus is on them to make that happen. Until then... caching is still going to happen.
I took it diffrent then you ment it

I agree there is a requirement on their part as well, and I already said I understand why people would use it. But I'm still under the opinion that it's against policy and that wiki link describes best why. You are introducing lag into the system, and that does deminish the scientific worth.

I'm not sure you understand though, but the project is depending on serial processing, the fact that usually the servers have enough wu's non the less, is because they provide us with allot of diffrent project ranges. Each range of projects is supposed to be processed in a certain order, and when you take let's say 5 wu's at a time, those 4 wu's you're not crunching right away will also not be given out to other participants ( this is the lagg you're introducing ). The same goes with EUE's ect, if those projects where bad, if you crunched them right away they would eue and their collection/assignment servers will get notified of the eue and when a certain threshold is met the PG can take those offline making sure no other cycles are waisted on bad work units.

Offcourse, you can say it's their responcibility to do QA and don't let cases like the smp 5801 wu get out in the wild, I agree but that's not realistic to count on all the time.

I'm not going to tell you not to cache, I know you got two good reasons for it. Your connection, and the down time of the servers. Both aspects are partially solved ( at your side ) when you cache wu's.

But I hope you will allow me to point to why it actually does not help in the general picture. Think of it this way, what if the entire XS team suddenly would start caching gpu wu's. and let's spice it up, cache those wu's we know give the best ppd? Because you know I can make that happen, and I explained you why I won't do it. It will introduce a lag into the system, and it will make it very hard for the PG to determine what their wu's are doing in the wild. Isolated cases like yours do not cause great harm, but on a larger scale, caching wu's will certainly hurt the project more then it helps.