On top of the usual Tuesday outage tasks Bob also refreshed the table statistics on the science database, which will hopefully keep splitter/assimilator activity well-oiled for some time to come. While doing some other upkeep I had to reboot bambi to clear away stale splitter processes in disk wait (over the network), and much to my chagrin I discovered upon coming back up three of the local 24 drives went missing (logically, not physically). So all its newly assembled RAID partitions are pulling in spares and resyncing as I type. I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation, if not a simple solution (like another reboot). But in any case.. annoying!!

Other than that my day so far has been mostly system cleanup and upkeep. Working on backup/security things too mundane and boring to mention here. Okay I'll mention some of them: I compressed/organized about 500GB of db_purge archive files to remedy a filling partition. I also set up a more robust backup scheme for our internal on-line documentation (we'll still have available copies in various format if the network goes kaput). Jeff has been converting all our CVS repositories to SVN. Etc. etc. etc.

- Matt

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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

I must say: It was areally short outage today. Thats really good to se that the system seams to work as it suppose to work.

Really good work, all of you!

Peter Söderlund
Sweden

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Any idea when the S@H Beta server will be working again? Many of us have AP WUs waiting to upload for a week now.

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Dublin, California
Team: SETI.USA

Why migrate from CVS to SVN?

Thanks Again Matt . . .