Backslash (Oct 07 2009)

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Author	Message
Matt Lebofsky Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1375 Credit: 74,079 RAC: 0	Message 938179 - Posted: 7 Oct 2009, 20:35:19 UTC
	The replica recovery is on hold for a while. We've experiencing random, intermittent issues when trying to recover one database with a mysqldump from another. This used to always work perfectly, but then something in mysql 5.1 screwed up the quoting and backslashing. I was able to get around this before by writing a script that parsed the large dump files one line at a time, but even that isn't working now. Bob has found other complaints on the web about this, so maybe there's a bug fix somewhere (we're certainly not going to pore through 20GB of ascii looking for missing backslashes and whatnot). We might have to do another dump from scratch, which won't happen until next week, which means the replica may be offline until then. Still, when we recover from the outage (and the weekend backlog) I might still turn on the "show results" flag so users can see recent result history, etc. I'm working on a second test file to help solidify our warm feelings towards the software radar blanking suite. This will get split/sent out tomorrow (unless I suddenly disappear on an impromptu vacation, which is known to happen from time to time). Due to popular demand I put a little effort in this morning to cleaning up the technical news main page - it's been a while since I have done so, so the page has gotten rather large and painful to load for people on slow connections. - 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
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QSilver Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 213 Credit: 3,059,834 RAC: 4,783	Message 938182 - Posted: 7 Oct 2009, 20:38:21 UTC
	Thanks, Matt and the rest of the team, for all the hard work.
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52 Aces Send message Joined: 7 Jan 02 Posts: 494 Credit: 11,303,308 RAC: 3,544	Message 938199 - Posted: 7 Oct 2009, 21:36:08 UTC - in response to Message 938179.
	Can just the daily BoincStat dump be re-pointed at Mork for this week? Or would that mess up the stats worse than waiting? I know for everything else it's a resounding No ;-)
	ID: 938199 ·

Matt Lebofsky Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1375 Credit: 74,079 RAC: 0	Message 938201 - Posted: 7 Oct 2009, 21:39:14 UTC - in response to Message 938199.
	As far as I know everything is pointing at mork right now. Let me know if it seems like I'm wrong about that. - 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: 938201 ·

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 7467 Credit: 39,776,932 RAC: 33,573	Message 938229 - Posted: 7 Oct 2009, 23:27:57 UTC
	Dump has appeared on schedule, and gross total credit has gone up from 57,096,271,778 to 57,184,239,144 - looks A-OK from here.
	ID: 938229 ·

Zeus Fab3r Send message Joined: 17 Jan 01 Posts: 639 Credit: 57,236,130 RAC: 79,145	Message 938230 - Posted: 7 Oct 2009, 23:29:32 UTC - in response to Message 938179.
	...when we recover from the outage (and the weekend backlog) I might still turn on the "show results" flag so users can see recent result history, etc. If the "Cricket graph" is considered to be a good indicator of current workload, it looks like we're out of the woods... or maybe not? ____________ Who the hell is General Failure and why is he reading my harddisk?¿
	ID: 938230 ·

Berserker Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 2 Jun 99 Posts: 105 Credit: 5,354,065 RAC: 365	Message 938257 - Posted: 8 Oct 2009, 2:04:43 UTC
	I use 'mysqldump -O net_buffer_length=32760 --opt -Q' for dumps, but I just noticed I'm still on 5.0, so that will probably be why I haven't come across the backslash/quoting issue. ____________ Stats site - http://www.teamocuk.co.uk - still alive and (just about) kicking.
	ID: 938257 ·

[seti.international] Philip J. Fry Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 6576 Credit: 50,836,486 RAC: 20,692	Message 938288 - Posted: 8 Oct 2009, 7:10:47 UTC - in response to Message 938179.
	... Still, when we recover from the outage (and the weekend backlog) I might still turn on the "show results" flag so users can see recent result history, etc. ... It would be nice to have the task list/s available. Maybe also the pending credits.. Everytime I change/do something on my PCs this isn't available.. ;-) ____________ >Das Deutsche Cafe. The German Cafe.<
	ID: 938288 ·

Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 10334 Credit: 5,111,686 RAC: 6,553	Message 938447 - Posted: 8 Oct 2009, 21:59:46 UTC - in response to Message 938179.
	(unless I suddenly disappear on an impromptu vacation, which is known to happen from time to time) Last chance before it all turns white. ____________
	ID: 938447 ·

John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 22343 Credit: 439,209 RAC: 396	Message 938524 - Posted: 9 Oct 2009, 3:39:23 UTC - in response to Message 938447.
	(unless I suddenly disappear on an impromptu vacation, which is known to happen from time to time) Last chance before it all turns white. Are you trying to tempt the man? ____________ BOINC WIKI
	ID: 938524 ·

arkayn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 3096 Credit: 40,519,987 RAC: 66,254	Message 938565 - Posted: 9 Oct 2009, 7:47:03 UTC - in response to Message 938447.
	(unless I suddenly disappear on an impromptu vacation, which is known to happen from time to time) Last chance before it all turns white. ____________
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Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 10334 Credit: 5,111,686 RAC: 6,553	Message 938796 - Posted: 10 Oct 2009, 0:26:10 UTC - in response to Message 938524.
	Are you trying to tempt the man? Some times you need to run away from it all. You think better when you get back. ____________
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Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 10334 Credit: 5,111,686 RAC: 6,553	Message 938798 - Posted: 10 Oct 2009, 0:28:21 UTC - in response to Message 938565.
	Nice pic of Crater Lake. ____________
	ID: 938798 ·

rob smith Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 5473 Credit: 21,192,545 RAC: 135,147	Message 938940 - Posted: 10 Oct 2009, 7:30:39 UTC
	******* run out of spare holiday :-( ____________ Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?
	ID: 938940 ·

1mp0£173 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0	Message 939011 - Posted: 10 Oct 2009, 16:38:42 UTC - in response to Message 938796.
	Are you trying to tempt the man? Some times you need to run away from it all. You think better when you get back. Some times you need to run away from it all. Then you think "better get back." ____________
	ID: 939011 ·

Barry Foster Send message Joined: 4 Jul 09 Posts: 1 Credit: 8,536 RAC: 0	Message 939245 - Posted: 11 Oct 2009, 22:01:41 UTC
	why not post what a 100,000 watt am broadcast would look like if spotted on 4 light years away. people would have a clue what this is all about.
	ID: 939245 ·

Macroman1 Send message Joined: 30 May 99 Posts: 67 Credit: 12,532,684 RAC: 0	Message 939414 - Posted: 12 Oct 2009, 18:28:09 UTC - in response to Message 939245.
	why not post what a 100,000 watt am broadcast would look like if spotted on 4 light years away. people would have a clue what this is all about. Couldn't detect such a signal as far out as you think. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part6/section-12.html ____________ "Gentlemen, there are only two types of naval vessels..........Submarines, and Targets" -- U.S. Navy Submarine SONAR Instructor.
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