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Suggestion: 'read this' from Matt:

First off, I should point out that the server status page isn't the most accurate thing in the world,

especially now as I haven't yet converted any of this code to understand how the new multibeam splitters work (I've been busy).

So please don't use the data on this particular web page to inspire panic - many splitters are running, and have been all night,

even though the page shows none of them are running at all

SETI NEWS from Matt . . . August 16, 2007

So here's the deal. Getting multibeam data out to the public is having its ups and downs. Thanks to some helpful poking and prodding from various users we uncovered a problem with the splitter causing it to generate workunits with bogus triplet thresholds. The result: about 50% of the workunits sent out were overflowing quickly and returning, creating network clogs on our already-overwhelmed servers. And about 2.5% of the workunits were sent out with impossibly low threshholds, causing clients to spin on ridiculously slow calculations. The mystery here is why these aren't also immediately overflowing (with such thresholds they should report a lot of garbage right away). This may have to do when/where the client checks for overflow - it may take several hours to reach 0.001% done, but then the hope is these clients will then finally be bursting with data and returning the results home.

This was actually a problem in beta that got fixed, but now somehow resurfaced, which is also a mystery. CVS out of sync? Some stupid code put in to check for config overrides on the command line? Unfortunately the splitter guru is on vacation, so we had to make our best attempt to understand the code and patch it ourselves. Jeff just did so and put the fixed version on line and we're watching the thresholds. So far so good.

Meanwhile, we're back to yesterday's problem of just not having enough throughput from the workunit file server, so that's the main bottleneck right now, and there's not much we can do about it except wait for the current artificial demand (caused by the excessive overflows) to die down and see if we catch up.

- Matt

Splitsville (Aug 16 2007)


Copyright © 2007 University of California

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My RAC is growning but is still crap

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Very nice indeed.

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Anyone know if the optimizer works with the new version of BOINC/SETI, yet?

http://lunatics.at/index.php?module=Downloads;catd=12



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Anyone know if the optimizer works with the new version of BOINC/SETI, yet?

http://lunatics.at/index.php?module=Downloads;catd=12.

Version 5.10.20?
I'm using it on mine, but I do not know if they've got something compatible for each type of WU. Need help finding a thread in NC so we can track down this info?

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Anyone know if the optimizer works with the new version of BOINC/SETI, yet?

http://lunatics.at/index.php?module=Downloads;catd=12



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Your computers are hidden so I can't give you an exact link, but the non-Vista Windows apps are here, v2.4.

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Thanks Sarge and Labbie,

I run Vista and am going to unhide my computer now.

Hmm... still won't show my computer. Maybe it will show it soon, or maybe my cookies/cache, need to be deleted.

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

Thanks Sarge and Labbie,

I run Vista and am going to unhide my computer now.

Re-hide it after Labbie's seen it and helped! :)

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Hmm... still won't show my computer. Maybe it will show it soon, or maybe my cookies/cache, need to be deleted.

Not sure why I hid it in the first place. Time for a new computer anyhow, lol.

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Hmm... still won't show my computer. Maybe it will show it soon, or maybe my cookies/cache, need to be deleted.

Not sure why I hid it in the first place. Time for a new computer anyhow, lol.

Make sure you're hitting Update at the bottom of the preferences page.

But, for Vista, you need to go here. Simon has been busy and Crunch3r re-compiled the app for Vista.

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SWEEET!!!!

Thanks bud!

I have been hitting the save button on bottom and all other changed settings actually change but not this one for some reason.

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My Vista is falling since they turned the splitters off and I could get no XPs for the week end

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Mine just finally broke 300 and is still climbing... WOOOHOOO!!! 8-D

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