Smolt database is broken

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Tue Nov 20 21:04:17 UTC 2007


On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:25:47PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> Here's the top 5:
> 
>    266 28caf2c3-9766-4fe1-9e4c-d6b0ba8a0132
>    336 810e7126-1c69-4aff-b8b1-9db0fa8aa15a
>    402 c8dbb9d3-a9bd-4ba6-b92e-4a294ba5a95f
>    884 06e84493-e024-44b1-9b32-32d78af04039
>    931 e2b67e1d-e325-4740-b938-795addb45280
> 
> 
> The left number is times this month someone has submitted a profile with 
> that UUID.  If we take the last one as an example has come from over 800 
> IP's in the last 20 days.  It seems very unlikely that one person would 
> find his way to 800 different IP's this month.  Let me know if you'd 
> like more.

We shouldn't have any duplicates if its properly random. I don't know how
relevant the actual values are myself because random numbers is "hard maths"
and I'm not a mathematician. I've raised it however but since its turkey
genoiciding season in the USA it might be a bit slow





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