Cinco de Mayo (May 05 2009)

There were indeed some weird lingering problems with the mysql database from this weekend. Some tables had bungled indexes. We think we cleaned that up during the usual weekly maintenance outage today. We also needed to regenerate the replica mysql database from scratch, so that'll be behind until later this evening (or tomorrow). The result pages may be out of whack until then. In fact, I just turned them off for now as they were eating too many resources.

By the way, we're still unable to collect data at Arecibo due to problems with the data recorder being unable to see the drives. Turns out the card we bought, which was an exact replacement of the previous card, is having driver issues. Why? Well, unbeknownst to us we weren't actually using the previous card - we were using a totally different card (i.e. one we didn't buy) this whole time. It's a mystery why the original card was swapped out and replaced with this third one, but we're kinda back at square one again. Sigh. Due to time zone/scheduling conflicts each iteration on this front takes about 24 hours (the staff at Arecibo is providing support for free, after all).

- Matt

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

Just curious..

The pending credit URL is no longer available in my profile.

This will recover [come back] automatically?


BTW.
Thanks for the daily update here. :-)

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That points to the replica database which is temporarily offline.

Did someone forget flipping a switch after the maintenance?

It is. It depends on your point of view and the trace is taking place from the other side.

Actually the Bits in is what is coming out to us, Bits out is what we are uploading.
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Actually the Bits in is what is coming out to us, Bits out is what we are uploading.

Actually the Bits in is what is coming out to us, Bits out is what we are uploading.

That's right, my way of thinking is it should be around the other way. Maybe it's just the way I think or do others agree with me?

"In" and "Out" are relative to the router interface being graphed, which may not exactly "point" the direction you expect.

"In" and "Out" are relative to the router interface being graphed, which may not exactly "point" the direction you expect.

Thank you Ned. I was unaware that the graph was related to the router, the way it has been labeled makes total scene.
All work waiting to be uploaded has got through.

Actually the Bits in is what is coming out to us, Bits out is what we are uploading.

That's right, my way of thinking is it should be around the other way. Maybe it's just the way I think or do others agree with me?

"In" and "Out" are relative to the router interface being graphed, which may not exactly "point" the direction you expect.

"In" and "Out" are relative to the router interface being graphed, which may not exactly "point" the direction you expect.

Thank you Ned. I was unaware that the graph was related to the router, the way it has been labeled makes total scene.
All work waiting to be uploaded has got through.

"In" and "Out" are relative to the router interface being graphed, which may not exactly "point" the direction you expect.

Thank you Ned. I was unaware that the graph was related to the router, the way it has been labeled makes total scene.
All work waiting to be uploaded has got through.

Whenever I'm thinking about this kind of stuff (including routing) I picture myself sitting inside the router (or host) and peeking out through the ethernet jack.

With that point of view, lots of things get much simpler.

"In" and "Out" are relative to the router interface being graphed, which may not exactly "point" the direction you expect.

Thank you Ned. I was unaware that the graph was related to the router, the way it has been labeled makes total scene.
All work waiting to be uploaded has got through.

Whenever I'm thinking about this kind of stuff (including routing) I picture myself sitting inside the router (or host) and peeking out through the ethernet jack.

With that point of view, lots of things get much simpler.

OK, but how do you imagine yourself so small that you actually fit? And what does the inside of a router look like? I think it has lots of gnomes working at tiny consoles routing all of our IP datagrams manually as each gnome shuffles about from port to port. Am I close?

With that point of view, lots of things get much simpler.

OK, but how do you imagine yourself so small that you actually fit? And what does the inside of a router look like? I think it has lots of gnomes working at tiny consoles routing all of our IP datagrams manually as each gnome shuffles about from port to port. Am I close?

Well, to start with, it's really dark inside, unless someone takes the cover off.