Hole in the Rock (Jan 22 2009)

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Message 856590 - Posted: 22 Jan 2009, 23:34:01 UTC

We continue to have problems mounting our raw data drives (which we fill down at Arecibo and drain up here). The symptoms are random, the error messages are random, and where these messages actually appear is random. Jeff and I are pretty much giving up trying to figure it out. We'll most likely remove as many moving parts from the whole system and deal with continuing issues as they arise. Not sure who/what to blame. Linux? SATA? USB? The enclosures? The cables? The drives themselves?

I actually got the software radar blanker working. Whether or not the output it generates is worth anything remains to be seen, but at first glance it looks pretty good. The proof is when I run this on a whole file and make some workunits, and then see if these workunits explode.

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Message 856595 - Posted: 22 Jan 2009, 23:48:24 UTC

Ye gods. Exploding workunits? Does my warranty cover that? <grin>
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Message 856601 - Posted: 23 Jan 2009, 0:13:23 UTC - in response to Message 856595.  
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Ye gods. Exploding workunits? Does my warranty cover that? <grin>

Who cares about the warranty, who is going to clean up the mess? :-)
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Message 856619 - Posted: 23 Jan 2009, 0:44:16 UTC

Matt........your bringing back some wonderful memories.

Been there, done that.

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Message 856620 - Posted: 23 Jan 2009, 0:44:26 UTC


. . . Thanks as usual for the Updates Matt

ps - you might look into sometjhing i sent Eric a short bit ago - interesting




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Message 856680 - Posted: 23 Jan 2009, 2:52:50 UTC

So now after the exploding downloads, Got *much* more work than asked for, we are going to get exploding tasks.
Time to dig out the protective clothing etc.
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Message 856753 - Posted: 23 Jan 2009, 10:07:12 UTC
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at about 0200 PST, I started getting:

1/23/2009 1:56:17 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work sent
1/23/2009 1:56:17 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: CPU app exists for SETI@home Enhanced but no CPU work requested
1/23/2009 1:56:17 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: (your BOINC client is old - please install current version)

followed by:

1/23/2009 1:58:50 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work sent
1/23/2009 1:58:50 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: CPU app exists for SETI@home Enhanced but no CPU work requested
1/23/2009 1:58:50 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your settings on the web site.
1/23/2009 1:58:50 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: (your BOINC client is old - please install current version)

This just after sucessfully getting a block of 20 WU's for the same computer (which is running version 5.10.45...) Did something change on Berkeley's end, 'cause nothing changed on mine!

[add]Each time I got these messages, I also got "communication deffered" for 24 hrs, BTW [/add]
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Message 856973 - Posted: 24 Jan 2009, 0:20:51 UTC

Matt,

Thanks for all the updates.

What happened to your taking Thursday off, and being in on Friday? That didn't last long.


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Message 857079 - Posted: 24 Jan 2009, 5:55:28 UTC - in response to Message 856590.  

Not sure who/what to blame. Linux? SATA? USB? The enclosures? The cables? The drives themselves?


Either blame Canada or blame Misfit.
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Message 857118 - Posted: 24 Jan 2009, 8:52:03 UTC - in response to Message 857079.  

Not sure who/what to blame. Linux? SATA? USB? The enclosures? The cables? The drives themselves?


Either blame Canada or blame Misfit.



Its always Canada's fault...why can't it be Switzerland's fault this time...lol
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Message 857141 - Posted: 24 Jan 2009, 10:44:27 UTC

Well you know the golden rule of flakey hardware - Its always the last thing you test!

If all else fails, check that the hamster's wheel hasn't shifted off axis.
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Message 857185 - Posted: 24 Jan 2009, 15:15:21 UTC

Maybe that's why I haven't gotten any new work in about a week. Or, it could be BOINC itself doing it. I'm on multiple projects, and when I get work units from one, I get nothing from anyone else unless I suspend that particular project.
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Message 857202 - Posted: 24 Jan 2009, 15:58:39 UTC - in response to Message 857118.  

Not sure who/what to blame. Linux? SATA? USB? The enclosures? The cables? The drives themselves?


Either blame Canada or blame Misfit.



Its always Canada's fault...why can't it be Switzerland's fault this time...lol


There are no Gremlins in Switzerland. AMC couldn't afford to send any there.
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Message 857265 - Posted: 24 Jan 2009, 18:46:19 UTC

since about 15:00 hrs utc friday the gigabit net graphs show that the connection is running at maximum rate.
Ime getting connection timeouts,
everything seems to be working,
its just got an lot of work to do.
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Message 857267 - Posted: 24 Jan 2009, 18:49:46 UTC

Seems like something is going on as haven't been able to upload anything since very early this morning.
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Message 857304 - Posted: 24 Jan 2009, 20:07:19 UTC - in response to Message 857267.  

Is it possible that work is being split into such small parts that there are so many of them they are jamming up transfers? It seems all the MB tasks I have been getting are smaller than usual.
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Message 857312 - Posted: 24 Jan 2009, 20:13:06 UTC - in response to Message 857267.  
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I am likewise having upload problems. I had roughly 4 units and managed to upload maybe 2 units and I've got 2 more but I keep getting deferred as well.
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Message 857319 - Posted: 24 Jan 2009, 20:19:31 UTC

My post may or may not be related to this thread. Don't know. All I know is that for one whole week now my computer has suspended all work on BOINC. All computation and all upload. I have an astropulse ready to upload and for some reason the computer has suspended it. I cannot unsuspend it. Oh, and I promise you - I have done nothing in that week, barely used the computer infact. Why would it be doing this ? I cannot unsuspend it, upload the completed file or get new ones ?????
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Message 857333 - Posted: 24 Jan 2009, 20:43:25 UTC

Haven't been able to upload since last night 1/23/09, 22.30 PST.
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Message 857339 - Posted: 24 Jan 2009, 21:16:54 UTC - in response to Message 857079.  

Not sure who/what to blame. Linux? SATA? USB? The enclosures? The cables? The drives themselves?

Either blame Canada or blame Misfit.

I was going to quote that line and say how disappointed I was. I am no longer disappointed.
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