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20 Jan 2006 22:17:13 UTC

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Then just forget 119107, maybe some day the system will forget it too (if they clean up dead accounts)

Do/Did they clean up old accounts in other projects (eg. Seti)?

Einstein@Home has never cleaned up old or obsolete accounts. I must admit that it would be tempting to do, since the growing size of the database will otherwise be problematic. Probably the right thing to do would be to also clean up (delete) old hosts (which have not contacted E@H in a long time). But any serious thought about this will probably not take place until we HAVE to do it!

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22 Jan 2006 0:59:40 UTC

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Einstein@Home has never cleaned up old or obsolete accounts. I must admit that it would be tempting to do, since the growing size of the database will otherwise be problematic. Probably the right thing to do would be to also clean up (delete) old hosts (which have not contacted E@H in a long time). But any serious thought about this will probably not take place until we HAVE to do it!

Bruce, what about database compression? Seti has had to do this recently, and it speed backend processes a lot. I am sure your backend processes are fine, but if you are proactive, it may help in the long run.

A few days ago we got a note from Robert Bankay, the SETI@home database expert, with some advice about this exact point. I suspect that our DB does not have too many 'holes' but this 'defragmentation' might well help. So we'll try it sometime soon.

Cheers,
Bruce