Devil's Postpile (Sep 22 2008)

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Matt Lebofsky Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1444 Credit: 957,058 RAC: 0	Message 811039 - Posted: 22 Sep 2008, 21:19:03 UTC No big disasters over the weekend. However, turns out one of the download servers had its root partitions fill up yesterday due to faulty log rotation behaviour. I'm figuring that's why outbound traffic was spotty for a while. I had to clean that mess up this morning - I think we're out of the woods on that front but the traffic graphs still seem kinda weird to me. I plan to upgrade the OS on server bruno tomorrow, and with that being the "hub" computer for BOINC in a lot of ways, the outage may be longer than usual. Hopefully not too long. It is coming clear that our hopes for the new NAS box we assembled aren't being realized - it's pretty slow. It is also clear that using thumper as both a raw data storage buffer and science database server isn't going to work out for much longer. The I/O on the machine is usually maxed out, and we need a better solution. Not sure exactly what that solution is yet. I'm going to be prioritizing helping to implement the new radar blanking code, as Astropulse is kinda blocked until it's ready. Jeff's been working pretty hard on that, as the program required some changes to core data management routines without breaking currently working software. Once we're over the hump on that he (or we) can turn our attention back to the NTPCkr. - Matt -- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person -- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude ID: 811039 ·

Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0	Message 811043 - Posted: 22 Sep 2008, 21:27:47 UTC . . . nice work Berkeley - and Thanks for the Posting as usual Matt BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . ID: 811043 ·

DJStarfox Send message Joined: 23 May 01 Posts: 1066 Credit: 1,226,053 RAC: 2	Message 811137 - Posted: 23 Sep 2008, 2:28:13 UTC - in response to Message 811039. Last modified: 23 Sep 2008, 2:42:37 UTC What is a realistic minimum size for a NAS box in order to be the raw data storage buffer? I ask because, if it's in the budget, you can get a SAN for less than the cost of a new server. Google shopping search... ID: 811137 ·

speedimic Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Sep 02 Posts: 362 Credit: 16,590,653 RAC: 0	Message 811315 - Posted: 23 Sep 2008, 15:39:42 UTC What is a realistic minimum size for a NAS box in order to be the raw data storage buffer? I ask because, if it's in the budget, you can get a SAN for less than the cost of a new server. Google shopping search... Too small... what they need is another fully equipped X4500. Maybe someone has a good friend at SUN... mic. ID: 811315 ·

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