The regular weekly outage to hose down the database got started a little late today since Bob was out and I was busy voting (election day here in California - they hold elections in the U.S. in the middle of the work week and nobody gets the day off). Otherwise it was fine though it took a little longer to compact the tables as it was a generally busy week meaning a lot more database inserts/deletes and therefore a lot more fragmentation.

Spent a large chunk of the day helping Dave install a new fastcgi-enabled scheduler on the alpha project which meant figuring out the differences between fcgid and mod_fastcgi behavior and determining which apache directives work, etc. Pretty annoying, but finally got it all squared away - the upshot of this is we're now getting real scheduler logs for the first time in years, as opposed to scheduler messages cluttering up apache error logs. Cool. Of course, I was distracted enough to not notice bane (the workunit download server) spiraled out of control trying to recover from the outage. I just rebooted it with and started apache with a lower ceiling to hopefully prevent this from happening again. So I'm still operating on bane. Expect slightly slower, more painful recoveries from outages for the next while.

Despite the red bar on the science status page saying ALFA is not running, we are indeed collecting data on and off. This is a false negative due to a change in reporting from the Arecibo feed which tells us telescope position/status/etc. Jeff's fixing this now.

- Matt

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Thanks for letting us know new data is coming in Matt.

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Yes, thanks Matt....good to know we are collecting data again while Arecibo is still in operation.
Hope you got that radar blanking thing all sorted as well.

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Nice to know, we have fresh data to crunch...! :)

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Thanks for the Post Matt - it's Much Appreciated Sir . . .

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