We had an extended outage today (more than the regular 3-4 hour database maintenance outage) to finally upgrade one of our core servers, bruno. Usually the OS upgrades are trivial, however this particular machine required a little extra TLC, due to its functional importance, as well as its unique (but admittedly not that unusual) hardware configuration. In regards to the latter, we basically put off upgrading this system until a modern day OS would automatically support its fibre channel card (as opposed to us having to compile drivers into the kernel, etc... blech...).

Anywho... there were no major failures during the long procedure (which included backing everything up, reconfiguring root RAID devices (while trying not to destroy others), then resetting all the network/RAID/apache/etc. services). It still took longer than it should due to a steady stream of minor annoyances (installer crash on first attempt, missing sym links that had to be discovered/recreated, missing packages to be installed, having to recompile every BOINC service due to standard library changes). Doesn't matter - it's done. Or at least done enough - there are still some screws to tighten which I'll tackle later.

So, we'll be catching up for a while. If at first you don't connect, let your client try again later.

- Matt

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Thanks for the update, as always.

Claggy

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If you're getting a fibre channel card with some storage behind it, bruno should scream with speed!

Matt,

Early warning! I think the .xml stats upload is on the fritz again... or the figures in it are frozen.

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Hello, from Albany, CA!...

Early warning! I think the .xml stats upload is on the fritz again... or the figures in it are frozen.

Oops - you're right. I just recompiled/installed that, too - should kick in sometime today.

- Matt

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-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Matt,

Ever since the upgrade of Bruno on Tuesday I am having problems with all of my machines (50 or 60 of them). I get either "HTTP error" when reporting or "HTTP Internal Server" errors when trying to report. And none of them want to pull down any new work. They get a "reached daily quota of 200 results" error even though some have not had any work in a few days. I don't know if Bruno has anything to do with it but it all seemed to start happening after the outage on Tuesday. Any ideas?

Thanks

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Matt,

Same problem as above since Tuesday with HTTP errors when uploading, downloading new work isn`t affected.

Regards,

Kurt

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ditto.

also, the server status page is now readable from 10K feet (i.e. the default font has changed making the page cosmetically challenged)

No problems here.
NB- keep in mind that approx every 2 hours (give or take an hour) there is a big surge in network traffic- at these times uploads, downloads & scheduler requests will often result in an error or timeout. Once the traffic is back to normal levels, there are no communication problems & all is good.

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also, the server status page is now readable from 10K feet (i.e. the default font has changed making the page cosmetically challenged)

Yeah - the server status page is generated separately from the rest of the web site, and CSS stuff has changed recently, so I need to sync all that up at some point. It's on my list.

- 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

also, the server status page is now readable from 10K feet (i.e. the default font has changed making the page cosmetically challenged)

Yeah - the server status page is generated separately from the rest of the web site, and CSS stuff has changed recently, so I need to sync all that up at some point. It's on my list.

- Matt

Must be a long list......LOL.

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also, the server status page is now readable from 10K feet (i.e. the default font has changed making the page cosmetically challenged)

Yeah - the server status page is generated separately from the rest of the web site, and CSS stuff has changed recently, so I need to sync all that up at some point. It's on my list.

- Matt

Must be a long list......LOL.

Does it ever get shorter?

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Must be a long list......LOL.

Does it ever get shorter?

Does your list ever get shorter?



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Must be a long list......LOL.

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It fluctuate in size as the RAC of the slowest projects rise and fall above a RAC of 1.

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