I've been out for a couple weeks. I really need to get the others around here to chime in while I'm away, but it's hard to convince people who aren't as hypergraphic as I. Anyway, it seems like whatever happened most everybody survived. Another problem: what I end up blathering on about in these posts is hardly comprehensive, and given arbitrary priority based on whatever is on my mind at the given time. This can be confusing, I imagine.

I might also just go ahead and start only posting here when I really need to (during *real* server issues) and post less important day-to-day type things in the blog. We'll see how that goes. It might help keeping specific issues contained to one meaningful thread.

In any case, a brief rundown of the past two weeks: A drive failed on the workunit storage server. Usual drill there except it hung after the failure, however once rebooted it recovered just fine using a spare drive. Outside of that were more minor issues (another server hung requiring reboot, the mysql replica stopped for no apparent reason and took a few days to catch up, etc...) causing various queues to drain or fill too fast, bottlenecks were exercised, and we had a couple temporary complete/partial public server outages... all told nothing out of the ordinary. We are still running a bit "hot" due to the Astropulse release - by "hot" I mean we're using far more storage/network resources than we'd like, but we're otherwise okay.

Going back to catching up from the absence...

- 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've been out for a couple weeks.

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Going back to catching up from the absence...

- Matt

Welcome back, you were sorely missed...well you were missed anyway. ;)

. . . Welcome back Matt - from Your Well-Deserved Vacation Sir

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BOINC Wiki . . .

Science Status Page . . .

Ah, Space Quest XCIX...the quest for more work unit storage space.

:)

I might also just go ahead and start only posting here when I really need to (during *real* server issues) and post less important day-to-day type things in the blog. We'll see how that goes. It might help keeping specific issues contained to one meaningful thread.

I always considdred this meaningful.
As the past 2 weeks clearly demonstrated the worst situation is no posts at all.
You will have a hardtime doing overinformation.
I personly like the day-to-day remarks.

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I might also just go ahead and start only posting here when I really need to (during *real* server issues) and post less important day-to-day type things in the blog. We'll see how that goes. It might help keeping specific issues contained to one meaningful thread.

I always considdred this meaningful.
As the past 2 weeks clearly demonstrated the worst situation is no posts at all.
You will have a hardtime doing overinformation.
I personly like the day-to-day remarks.

I have to agree.

Bernie

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I agree.

I read the information daily. As an IT manager, I find the information interesting.

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Dave

I agree, also. I look forward enthusiastically to the daily update. The past two weeks without much info have been painful. Just suffering the dry Fridays is tough.

As a courtesy, next time you plan an extended time away, please mention that you will be gone. At least we won't think you quit or dropped dead. And we DO care.

Thanks to Blurf (I think it was Blurf) who mentioned your vacation, and to Eric for a couple of informative posts.

Whit

I might also just go ahead and start only posting here when I really need to (during *real* server issues) and post less important day-to-day type things in the blog. We'll see how that goes. It might help keeping specific issues contained to one meaningful thread.

I think that the "less important" updates are still much appreciated because this is a community project after all, and it makes us all feel like we are in the loop as to what is going on. In my opinion at least.

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Cacc @ TheCandidExchange

What blog?

What blog?

I suspect this one:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=20

and not this one:

http://lebofsky.wordpress.com/

but I could be wrong.

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