Over the next few hours (or days) I will be bringing down the server briefly to perform some optimizations on the database. This may happen several times.During the recent challenge, some non-critical functions didn't perform as well as I'd like. Now that the challenge is over, while there's still an extra million tasks in the system is a good time to address those problems.The server likely will only be down for a minute or two at a time, but if your computer connects to the server when the server is down, your computer will wait an hour before trying to connect again. Therefore, I advise setting your BOINC clients to use a cache of at least an hour so your computer doesn't run out of work if it suspends work requests for an hour.

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