It's Catching Up (Oct 21 2008)

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Message 821600 - Posted: 21 Oct 2008, 22:25:00 UTC

Today had the weekly outage for the mysql backup/compression/etc. Bob did some index manipulation on the beta project while we were down - to see if we can perform as well with less indexes (now that mysql merges indexes if possible on its own). During the outage one of bambi's 24 drives failed, or at least seemed to. A spare has been pulled in and is rebuilding the array now.

The forums were pretty slow yesterday - actually everything was. Queues were filling, storage was maxed out, servers and databases was slowed by all the above, causing all kinds of headaches. However overnight the dams finally broke through and everything more or less cleared up on its own. I like when that happens.

About our bandwidth.. We do have *two* 100Mbit connections to the world. First is Hurricane Electric (HE), which is the what SETI pays for, and the other is the link supplied by campus which is shared by the entire lab. The HE traffic is strictly result uploads and workunit downloads, with occasional archival transfers to offsite storage. Everything else - most of the archival transfers, the public web sites, etc. go over the very underutilized campus link. So if there are web site connectivity problems, it has nothing to do with a maxed out link - it's probably due to the database server being overloaded, or something else.

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Message 821612 - Posted: 21 Oct 2008, 22:49:46 UTC

Thanks for the update Matt and good job all of you as always.

Hope the Air Con guys managed to get that issue fixed as well.

Is the hardware requirement list up to date? Someone in the wide world of users may have spares that could be donated that could be of use (extra drives etc)
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Message 821626 - Posted: 21 Oct 2008, 23:06:51 UTC - in response to Message 821612.  

Is the hardware requirement list up to date? Someone in the wide world of users may have spares that could be donated that could be of use (extra drives etc)


Thanks for asking! It's fairly up to date. Server wise we are holding steady with what we currently have (both in use and waiting to be in use), though brand new upgrades are nice. We could always use more SATA drives. Just lost a 500GB one today, for example.

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Message 821644 - Posted: 21 Oct 2008, 23:24:32 UTC - in response to Message 821626.  

Is the hardware requirement list up to date? Someone in the wide world of users may have spares that could be donated that could be of use (extra drives etc)


Thanks for asking! It's fairly up to date. Server wise we are holding steady with what we currently have (both in use and waiting to be in use), though brand new upgrades are nice. We could always use more SATA drives. Just lost a 500GB one today, for example.

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FYI SATA drives are on the Hardware Donations List.


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Message 822037 - Posted: 22 Oct 2008, 22:08:24 UTC - in response to Message 821600.  

So if there are web site connectivity problems, it has nothing to do with a maxed out link - it's probably due to the database server being overloaded, or something else.


well, downloading xml stats files have been extremely difficult lately. It's as if connection it totally lost midway. Sometimes I get 2 files sometimes three (of the five files). Asked Willy of boincstats.com, and he has the same trouble
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Message 822060 - Posted: 23 Oct 2008, 0:04:44 UTC

Yeah, I'm still frequently getting the gross pause reported; much more than I'm used to, but I'm still willing to blame Comcast at this point.
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Message 822063 - Posted: 23 Oct 2008, 0:19:20 UTC - in response to Message 822060.  

Yeah, I'm still frequently getting the gross pause reported; much more than I'm used to, but I'm still willing to blame Comcast at this point.


Yeah, but it's more fun to blame Misfit.
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Message 822110 - Posted: 23 Oct 2008, 3:01:18 UTC - in response to Message 822063.  

But he may be getting a "complex".
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Message 822292 - Posted: 23 Oct 2008, 17:22:41 UTC - in response to Message 822060.  

Yeah, I'm still frequently getting the gross pause reported; much more than I'm used to, but I'm still willing to blame Comcast at this point.


I get DNS lookup pauses with BOINC. So annoying.
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