Shared Memory (Dec 17 2009)

Regarding the secondary science database recovery debacle, we're throwing in the towel on that one. We tried to be clever by only dealing with specific sub-databases/tables in question, but the inner workings of Informix are way too complex and protective. So at our next earliest convenience we're going for the slow, brute force method, i.e. we're going to totally drop all secondary databases, back up everything on the primary, the recreate all the secondary databases from the backup. This is much like how we do it in MySQL land, but that database is 10s of gigabytes - the science db is upwards to 100 times that size.

We ran out of work to send out this afternoon. That'll be fixed shortly. Minor problem.

The donation drive letters continue to trickle out, requiring occasional attention on my part. I did pass along comments to the higher-ups made here and elsewhere, but that's as far as I went. I'm kind of sticking to my role as "the guy who just sends the mail along" for my own sanity.

- 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

Thanks for the update Matt.

Claggy

Regarding the secondary science database recovery debacle, we're throwing in the towel on that one. We tried to be clever by only dealing with specific sub-databases/tables in question, but the inner workings of Informix are way too complex and protective. So at our next earliest convenience we're going for the slow, brute force method, i.e. we're going to totally drop all secondary databases, back up everything on the primary, the recreate all the secondary databases from the backup. This is much like how we do it in MySQL land, but that database is 10s of gigabytes - the science db is upwards to 100 times that size.

In the UK & Ireland, there is a famous kids cartoon called "Postman Pat", everyone knows and loves it.

Matt,
Maybe for the next few weeks,we could address you as;

"Postman Matt"....LOL
"the guy who just sends the mail along"

You might have a little Alien in your post van instead of a cat!

Postman Pat video; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSFuXIKM7WI



John.
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Oooh... you're so going to have problems for making that comparison. ;-)

Heer's a screen shot of an error on the techinal news page

http://www.elrcastor.com/images/tech-news-db-err.jpg
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So I now have 17 completed jobs that show as "uploading" in the status field on the tasks page. (only 1 running task left for my 4 cpus to eat :( ) The messages page says "temporarily failed to upload" Is there a problem there? or is there one here I need to fix?

-Vicki-

Have a small look in the NC subforum to the Panic Mode On thread.

[http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=56420]




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the upload server is disabled -> see http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html

so everybody has pending uploads, no worries

Thanks for the info and link. :) So I presume there are also no tasks to
download and work on?

-Vicki-

I have 'bout 7 "uploads" uploading. I am still getting tasks

I have 'bout 7 "uploads" uploading. I am still getting tasks

I have 10 uploads waiting and I just received about the same amount of new tasks.
By this I also would like to wish everybody a merry christmas and happy holidays:-)
Grts
Julie