As everyone is waiting for the Workunit storage server to get healthy again. I have made the Thread sticky so that everyone Might be able to see.

Quote from the Main Page

Scheduled Power Outage - update
We are now recovering from a planned power outage, during which all services were off line. The workunit storage machine is undergoing a RAID resync and no new workunits will be generated until this has finished. The outage was for power upgrades on campus, and a similar outage will happen again this upcoming Sunday (01/03/2010) at 12 noon (Pacific time). 29 Dec 2009 4:26:16 UTC

What this means you we be getting messages in the Boinc > Messages Tab that state:

12/29/2009 2:49:01 PM SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/29/2009 2:49:01 PM SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)


We Wait

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As it has been noted, the "resync" is completed and we are now in the recovery part.

All things said and done, it is better it you just let Boinc do its thing. I noticed that my only cold GPU (which is doing only Seti Main and Lunatics offline testing) managed to get a Workunit all by itself.

If the recovery is "typical" somewhere before/around midnight PST your machines will have work. That is based on a normal outages takes about 3 hours. An extended outage takes up to 6 hours. The outlier would be the newer versions of Boinc 6.10.xx which with the Project Backoff might take a bit longer to request work.

So now we get into the "http errors" as the servers are too busy to process your connection request.

Sometimes I think I have been watching this too long.

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Is it possiable once the sytem recovers too download extra workunits to ride through the next outage?

Thanks for the update

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Is it possiable once the sytem recovers too download extra workunits to ride through the next outage?

Thanks for the update

Yes it is. Go into Your Account > Computing Preferences > Network Usage > Edit Preferences > and change "Maintain enough work for an additional x days" (where x equals how many days of workunits you have stockpiled) to a number around 2-4. No more than 5. That oughta' be enough.

Basically, this means, you should have enough work to keep you going for x days before you run out, if the servers are down.

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- Luke.

Is it possiable once the sytem recovers too download extra workunits to ride through the next outage?

Thanks for the update

Yes, it is possible. In your Account settings Computing preferences and look for these items.

Computer is connected to the Internet about every
(Leave blank or 0 if always connected.
My setting is 0.1 days (or try to connect every 2.5 hours)

The next one is

Maintain enough work for an additional
My setting is 1 day.

This is the one if you increase it to 2 days then you should be fine for the next outage.

The "caution" is that when you do that Boinc may have issues for a while. There are times with the type of Workunits that you get you could end up in a nasty situation. The most I would ever recommend is 3 days. Yes, there are reasons I am set to only 1 day. -9 Workunits and the Quota could make things very nasty. Then you could spend time trying to recover.

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Is it possiable once the sytem recovers too download extra workunits to ride through the next outage?

Yes: under Computing preferences on your Account page, edit the “Maintain enough work for an additional __ days” entry in the Network usage section.

P.S. Three answers for the price of one!

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Don't forget to check in your local preferences in your BOINC Manager under advanced settings too. I didn't and ran out of work. I had set my account page to 3 days but local prefs were only set to 2.

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

Don't forget to check in your local preferences in your BOINC Manager under advanced settings too. I didn't and ran out of work. I had set my account page to 3 days but local prefs were only set to 2.

I hope, three days are enough.

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I have had my BOINC computing preferences set to 10 days since day one and never had a problem. In doing this I never have to worry about local preferences. The scheduler has always done a fantastic job and I have only ran out of work only once in ten years. Every once in a while I will get a SETI WU that will go to high priority, although it happens more with one of my other projects.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

Champ, with it only 2 days I ran out just before they started to come back up. If I had had 3 days I would have carried over to the end and been just fine. My machine is a little slow and I like to get my results back in as fast as I can. I hate to make my wingmen wait on me. :-)

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I have 3 day WU cache on both machines.
Both had ~ 12 hours before idle, then SETI@home came up and the machines could DL new WUs.

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I do multiple projects, so I never run out of work.

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I do multiple projects, so I never run out of work.

I am doing the same, but my second project (Rosetta) is running dry as well. :-(

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I do multiple projects, so I never run out of work.

I am doing the same, but my second project (Rosetta) is running dry as well. :-(

Try Milky Way. It has its ups and downs, but when it is up it is UP. It will grab all your CPUs for a few days, and then everything else will go High Priority for a few days. Also, I find the science behind it very interesting, and very well explained on their home page.

Note to Mods: of course, I'm saying run this AS WELL AS Seti.

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I do run Milkyway on one of my computer, but I am one of those ATI guys crunching though 2 units every 10.5 minutes.

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At this posting it is about 18 Hours (local time) until Power Outage Shutdown, for the next power outage. The graphs showed other than a delay getting everything running, Recovery took ~18 hours. So if you have not set your "computing preferences" to obtain 2 days work. Or do not have Backup Projects...

Now is the time to consider that.

"We" know that going from "Cold Iron" to fuctioning Seti Seti Servers is not easy and takes time.

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Well now,
Since Sunday last, I have been unable to upload any "Completes Tasks".
"Messages":
1/5/2010 2:53:30 PM SETI@home update requested by user
1/5/2010 2:53:32 PM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
1/5/2010 2:53:32 PM SETI@home Not reporting or requesting tasks
1/5/2010 2:53:37 PM SETI@home Scheduler request completed

Close to 40 "Transfers" still reading:
1/5/2010 2:53:52 PM SETI@home Temporarily failed upload of 10fe07ab.13730.18477.6.10.116_0_0: HTTP error
1/5/2010 2:53:52 PM SETI@home Backing off 1 min 0 sec on upload of 10fe07ab.13730.18477.6.10.116_0_0

Final Msg.:
1/5/2010 2:59:20 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

Anyone have any idea when things will get sorted out?

Jim

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Clear Skies to all amateur Astronomers out there...

While nothing has been stated, there were two clogs and both ahve been released.

Uploads will be iffy for a while, as Downloads are happening.

All we can do is let Boinc and the Seti Servers do their Job.

Thank You for Your Patience

Regards

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Looking good from here. Uploads and downloads all working and even secondary server back so we can see results- Woo Hoo lol

Jim

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A quick look at Cricket, Uploads are over 20meg/sec Downloads as fast as they can be split. Recovery is well underway (Matt threw a few images on the "barby").

Reminder:
Depending on how old a Boinc Version You are using... YOU May need to safely shutdown Boinc and Restart it as it loses track of DNS (and other things during an extended outage). Then uploads will continue to fail and you will get no new work.

Depending on the number of uploads you have you need to get "under" a certain threshold, then Seti will automatically request new work. Until it reaches that point, it does not matter how many time you "manually" press Update.

WE have been down this road before.

Regards

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