Istvan,



evalthreads does not have any impact on the new master-slave  

evaluator.  We support it in the new master-slave just for  

compatibility with the other evaluators.  If I were to use the  

system, I'd set evalthreads=1



As evaluators may come online and crash at any point in time, their  

random seeds are usually set as N+K, where N is a fixed number, and K  

is the number of slaves that have connected up to now to the master.



Best regards,



Liviu.



On Jan 28, 2006, at 11:17 PM, I Jonyer wrote:



> Liviu (or Sean),

>

> I have been testing the distributed functionality in ECJ14 beta. I  

> have been playing with the number of evaluation threads and the  

> actual number of clients I am starting up. The number of evaluation  

> threads does not seem to have any effect. The master always accepts  

> all the clients that want to register, never refusing any of them  

> or waiting for more. I like this the way it is, but I am wondering  

> what, if any, role evalthreads plays in this version.

> Also, if I have 10 evalthreads specified, but 20 clients  

> registering, what is the default value of the random seed for those  

> clients which were never specified?

>

> Thank you,

> Istvan