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@@ -121,3 +121,46 @@ running this more continuously in the future, a less powerful machine should do.
 XXX: Tobias will request a machine from our department tomorrow, minimum 8 CPUs
 and 32GiB RAM and ~2TiB disk.  Pitch easier if we do website visits with
 mullvad enabled, so we will do that.
+
+### Notes from starting ct-sans on our machine
+
+    $ go install git.cs.kau.se/rasmoste/ct-sans@v0.0.1
+    $ ct-sans snapshot >snapshot.stdout
+    $ cat snapshot.stdout
+    2023/03/18 20:05:30 cmd_snapshot.go:30: INFO: updating metadata file
+    2023/03/18 20:05:30 cmd_snapshot.go:47: INFO: updating signed tree heads
+    2023/03/18 20:05:30 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped Google 'Argon2023' log at tree size 841710936
+    2023/03/18 20:05:30 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped Google 'Argon2024' log at tree size 52689060
+    2023/03/18 20:05:30 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped Google 'Xenon2023' log at tree size 966608751
+    2023/03/18 20:05:30 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped Google 'Xenon2024' log at tree size 63025768
+    2023/03/18 20:05:31 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped Cloudflare 'Nimbus2023' Log at tree size 513025681
+    2023/03/18 20:05:31 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped Cloudflare 'Nimbus2024' Log at tree size 31749516
+    2023/03/18 20:05:31 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped DigiCert Yeti2024 Log at tree size 36293063
+    2023/03/18 20:05:32 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped DigiCert Yeti2025 Log at tree size 687
+    2023/03/18 20:05:33 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped DigiCert Nessie2023 Log at tree size 198950777
+    2023/03/18 20:05:33 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped DigiCert Nessie2024 Log at tree size 37773373
+    2023/03/18 20:05:34 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped DigiCert Nessie2025 Log at tree size 694
+    2023/03/18 20:05:35 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped Sectigo 'Sabre' CT log at tree size 228782818
+    2023/03/18 20:05:35 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped Let's Encrypt 'Oak2023' log at tree size 457590228
+    2023/03/18 20:05:35 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped Let's Encrypt 'Oak2024H1' log at tree size 32863293
+    2023/03/18 20:05:35 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped Let's Encrypt 'Oak2024H2' log at tree size 13281
+    2023/03/18 20:05:36 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped Trust Asia Log2023 at tree size 379756
+    2023/03/18 20:05:38 cmd_snapshot.go:82: INFO: bootstrapped Trust Asia Log2024-2 at tree size 110270
+    $ ct-sans collect --workers 40 --batch-disk 131072 --batch-req 2048 --metrics 60m >collect.stdout 2>collect.stderr
+
+Tail in a tmux pane:
+
+    $ tail -f collect.stdout
+    ...
+    $ head -n1 collect.stdout
+    2023/03/18 20:11:52 cmd_collect.go:150: INFO: collect is up-and-running, ctrl+C to exit
+
+Note that it is safe to ctrl+C, things are written to disk before exit.  Just
+run `ct-sans collect` again to start collecting from where we left off.
+
+Tail in a tmux pane:
+
+    $ tail -f collect.stderr
+    ...
+
+With the above settings it takes 60m before the first status report is printed.