Pete's Log: stupid network
Entry #560, (Life in General)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
OK, so I've been able to come to terms with the ameritech outage. But now networking on malloc has decided to screw me over as well. Any connections to localhost have become absurdly slow, which makes working on p4 a pain. On the other hand, I did put the ssr cluster to good use. Running p4 on eight of the cluster machines with 64 players and 12800 hops takes 77 seconds. I can live with that. By the end, the message being sent every hop will have grown to be almost 40K... and I got byte ordering working so that p4 now works on heterogeneous networks. Woohoo! But I think the degree to which the network is mocking me has become absurd enough that I should go home. But it's kinda rainy out so I'm not exactly excited to bike home. Rebooting didn't help the problem on malloc either. The OIT still hasn't fixed the malloc routing problems (the clarify case is now two months old. I should bug somebody...) so I'm wondering if that's part of the problem. The same thing is happening on if (but to a lesser degree) and if has the same routing problems that malloc does...
Wandered over to the post office with Anne. She needed to overnight her absentee ballot to Michigan. Turns out she actually gets to vote in an exciting state, Colorado is pretty much a guaranteed victory for Bush. I was amazed by the number of people at the post office trying to get their absentee ballots mailed in time for tomorrow. Fun fun. This election is actually gonna be rather interesting, I think... yay democracy!