Out of the fire and into the pit of sulfuric acid. (Feb 19, 2010)

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RottenMutt Send message Joined: 15 Mar 01 Posts: 929 Credit: 181,617,216 RAC: 211,844	Message 971925 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 0:22:36 UTC - in response to Message 971905.
maybe look at the configuration of your switches. no work is uploading, nor are scheduler requests. ____________
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Swibby Bear Send message Joined: 1 Aug 01 Posts: 236 Credit: 6,563,678 RAC: 3,339	Message 971928 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 0:40:24 UTC Last modified: 20 Feb 2010, 0:44:18 UTC
I'm not sure you understand -- All of my WUs are finally uploaded -- But I C A N - N O T CONNECT TO R E P O R T Them For More Than 48 Hours!!! I don't think this has anything to do with splitters being down.
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Edge Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 19 Credit: 237,321,707 RAC: 65,135	Message 971930 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 0:41:58 UTC - in response to Message 971899.
It's aggravating that some people simply aren't seeing this problem while others have been seeing this even before the AC crash and the first group is saying "all is well". Fwiw, I've got more than a couple of computers trying to send results over the last 72 to 96 hours. They managed to get about 75% through since the recovery from the A/C failure (but I was certainly having problems before then) - the rest are sitting here trying to upload but getting HTTP errors and backing off, and when they can connect to download they're being told the project has no jobs available (that may be true given the onslaught of people trying to catch up, i don't know). I'm in the 'something's still not quite right' camp, but just holding out, since there's obviously not much we can do. If nothing else it's a good reminder to take a breath. Maybe some of us get tunnelvision for numbercrunching.... must get more!mustgetmore! or maybe that's just me. dunno yet. Either way, hat's off to the S@H team for giving it all they've got, and hope all have a great weekend. [/quote]
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RottenMutt Send message Joined: 15 Mar 01 Posts: 929 Credit: 181,617,216 RAC: 211,844	Message 971933 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 0:48:57 UTC - in response to Message 971816.
... One of the raid arrays on thumper lost a drive... you guys seem to loose way to many drives! how many do you have? anybody got work? ____________
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VBobier Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 40733 Credit: 32,028,275 RAC: 20,069	Message 971935 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 0:57:58 UTC - in response to Message 971933.
... One of the raid arrays on thumper lost a drive... you guys seem to loose way to many drives! how many do you have? anybody got work? Until about 2am PST, Sure, I've got work, After that, I doubt It highly. It's going to be colder than usual in the morning here(I leave the heater off at night since I'm the only living person around here anymore). Mom doesn't need anything as She's happy on Her shelf in My closet for eternity. :D ____________ BSG Anthem My Facebook page
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John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 22343 Credit: 434,933 RAC: 60	Message 971945 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 1:11:23 UTC - in response to Message 971881.
Superjoker: as explained elsewhere the backoffs are our friend as without them the servers would be flooded with requests & no-one would get anywhere. The longer the backoffs the better as it spreads the load more. Backoffs are a perfect technique for spreading the load when when the complete system is capable of handling (with an adequate satety margin) the aggregate anticipated demand averaged over an extended period of time. That's how SETI normally runs, and a few backoffs to shave the peaks and fill the troughs are exactly what's needed. Backoffs do not help if the aggregate load exceeds - over an extended period - the system's capacity to absorb work. Then you have to take more drastic action, to reduce demand or increase supply. For the last 4.5 days (only), SETI's capacity to absorb work has been below demand. I see no sign that demand has increased: instead, it seems to me that capacity has decreased (hopefully, temporarily). No amount of smoothing (backoffs) will solve this. What is needed is to restore the status quo ante on the capacity side. BOINC has a built in mechanism for this as well. If there are more than 2 * ncpus results waiting for uploads, no work will be requested. This was originally put in place to limit the growth on the client for a couple of projects where the upload time exceeded the crunch time. It also has the effect of limiting work being done if upload is slowed for an extended period. ____________ BOINC WIKI
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John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 22343 Credit: 434,933 RAC: 60	Message 971947 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 1:13:24 UTC - in response to Message 971933.
... One of the raid arrays on thumper lost a drive... you guys seem to loose way to many drives! how many do you have? anybody got work? Lots and lots of work from many projects (just not much from SETI). ____________ BOINC WIKI
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[seti.international] Philip J. Fry Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 6566 Credit: 50,677,788 RAC: 19,976	Message 971951 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 1:19:08 UTC
I can not UL thousands of results and not report/request new work. Since days only idle PCs. It's not at my side, DSL router switched off/on and PCs rebooted. Yes, sure.. I'm patiently.. Only for info. ____________ [Optimized project applications, for to increase your PC performance (double RAC)!][Overview of abbreviations, which are used often in forum and their meaning.] ____________ >Das Deutsche Cafe. The German Cafe.<
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hiamps Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,495,821 RAC: 36,021	Message 971952 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 1:19:25 UTC
Guess this weekend sucks for seti.... 2/19/2010 5:17:07 PM SETI@home Reporting 384 completed tasks, not requesting new tasks 2/19/2010 5:17:29 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 2/19/2010 5:17:30 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 2/19/2010 5:17:32 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server ____________ Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons... And no good credit hound!
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jravin Send message Joined: 25 Mar 02 Posts: 717 Credit: 60,953,685 RAC: 71,631	Message 971962 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 1:30:49 UTC - in response to Message 971952.
Guess this weekend sucks for seti.... 2/19/2010 5:17:07 PM SETI@home Reporting 384 completed tasks, not requesting new tasks 2/19/2010 5:17:29 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 2/19/2010 5:17:30 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 2/19/2010 5:17:32 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server Dittos here - has anybody a clue as to why this is happening? It's been several days, and not a hint as to what is going on..... ____________
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RottenMutt Send message Joined: 15 Mar 01 Posts: 929 Credit: 181,617,216 RAC: 211,844	Message 971979 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 1:50:09 UTC - in response to Message 971935. Last modified: 20 Feb 2010, 1:51:15 UTC
Until about 2am PST, Sure, I've got work, After that, I doubt It highly. It's going to be colder than usual in the morning here(I leave the heater off at night since I'm the only living person around here anymore). Mom doesn't need anything as She's happy on Her shelf in My closet for eternity. :D we got snow in the forcast for early next week, so it looks like i will be in the cold with you. it's just me and my doberman, i pitty the person who tries and rip me off. i'm sure the staff went home, so this is it for the week end, with just noise on the inlet pipe of clients trying to upload, but no one is home. ____________
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VBobier Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 40733 Credit: 32,028,275 RAC: 20,069	Message 971982 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 1:53:51 UTC - in response to Message 971962.
Guess this weekend sucks for seti.... 2/19/2010 5:17:07 PM SETI@home Reporting 384 completed tasks, not requesting new tasks 2/19/2010 5:17:29 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 2/19/2010 5:17:30 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 2/19/2010 5:17:32 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server Dittos here - has anybody a clue as to why this is happening? It's been several days, and not a hint as to what is going on..... Nope and It was happening before the last outage and when I said something others said I was wrong, turns out I was right(told ya so), But still there is no idea where the blockage comes from as Seti doesn't seem to be getting anything and We don't get acks for uploads and can't report. ____________ BSG Anthem My Facebook page
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Lint trap Send message Joined: 30 May 03 Posts: 854 Credit: 20,107,665 RAC: 21,580	Message 971988 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 2:09:45 UTC Last modified: 20 Feb 2010, 2:10:25 UTC
Pathping is reporting some packet losses in the San Jose area. The command in XP is C:\pathping 208.68.240.16 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu The ip address is the upload server (from my hosts file). You need both parts - the ip and the name. Pathping /? for options. The losses aren't huge pct-wise, but they are consistent. Martin
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Bob Giel Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Jan 04 Posts: 48 Credit: 4,542,766 RAC: 2,606	Message 971993 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 2:15:44 UTC
Had over 100 uploads at 15:30 Central time. It is now 20:14 Central time and all uploads have completed. The "ready to upload" feature is still having problems connecting. I'm just letting the system do what it does. ____________
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Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 10313 Credit: 5,060,573 RAC: 6,109	Message 971998 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 2:24:01 UTC
Eric: Thanks for the update. FYI: While the recovery from the A/C outage was happening my Mac 10.5.8 was not having problems reporting work units. My PC XP Pro was timing out. I suspect that the Mac has a better TCP/IP stack. My pointing this out is I don't know if there is anything you can tune on your side to assist in a recovery for the PC crowd. If both sides don't time out at about the same time, that will clog the pipes and make it more painful for everyone. Hope the rain isn't too fast and furious up there. About to start here in LA LA land. ____________
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VBobier Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 40733 Credit: 32,028,275 RAC: 20,069	Message 972024 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 3:57:14 UTC - in response to Message 971988.
Pathping is reporting some packet losses in the San Jose area. The command in XP is C:\pathping 208.68.240.16 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu The ip address is the upload server (from my hosts file). You need both parts - the ip and the name. Pathping /? for options. The losses aren't huge pct-wise, but they are consistent. Martin Thanks Martin, I never knew about pathping, Here's My results using XP64: Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790] (C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.PC1>pathping 208.68.240.16 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu Tracing route to boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] over a maximum of 30 hops: 0 pc1.westell.com [192.168.1.45] 1 dslrouter.westell.com [192.168.1.1] 2 L100.LSANCA-DSL-35.verizon-gni.net [71.105.32.1] 3 9-0-2935.LSANCA-LCR-09.verizon-gni.net [130.81.136.14] 4 so-4-0-0-0.LAX01-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.28.72] 5 0.so-6-3-0.XT1.LAX9.ALTER.NET [152.63.10.153] 6 0.ge-7-1-0.XL3.SJC7.ALTER.NET [152.63.48.254] 7 POS6-0-0.GW4.SJC7.ALTER.NET [152.63.48.241] 8 teliasonera-test-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.215.70] 9 hurricane-113209-sjo-bb1.c.telia.net [213.248.86.54] 10 64.71.140.42 11 208.68.243.254 12 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] Computing statistics for 300 seconds... Source to Here This Node/Link Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address 0 pc1.westell.com [192.168.1.45] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 1 1ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% dslrouter.westell.com [192.168.1.1] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 2 37ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% L100.LSANCA-DSL-35.verizon-gni.net [71.105.32.1] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 3 38ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 9-0-2935.LSANCA-LCR-09.verizon-gni.net [130.81.136.14] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 4 40ms 2/ 100 = 2% 2/ 100 = 2% so-4-0-0-0.LAX01-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.28.72] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 5 42ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1% 0.so-6-3-0.XT1.LAX9.ALTER.NET [152.63.10.153] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 6 50ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1% 0.ge-7-1-0.XL3.SJC7.ALTER.NET [152.63.48.254] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 7 48ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% POS6-0-0.GW4.SJC7.ALTER.NET [152.63.48.241] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 8 59ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1% teliasonera-test-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.215.70] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 9 54ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1% hurricane-113209-sjo-bb1.c.telia.net [213.248.86.54] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 10 57ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 64.71.140.42 5/ 100 = 5% \| 11 57ms 5/ 100 = 5% 0/ 100 = 0% 208.68.243.254 8/ 100 = 8% \| 12 55ms 13/ 100 = 13% 0/ 100 = 0% boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] Trace complete. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.PC1> ____________ BSG Anthem My Facebook page
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RottenMutt Send message Joined: 15 Mar 01 Posts: 929 Credit: 181,617,216 RAC: 211,844	Message 972030 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 4:36:04 UTC Last modified: 20 Feb 2010, 4:46:36 UTC
C:\>pathping 208.68.240.16 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu Tracing route to boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] over a maximum of 30 hops: 0 SkullStation [192.168.1.113] 1 ORION [192.168.1.1] 2 cab1-1.1scom.net [66.182.x.x] 3 DSL2-5.1scom.net [66.182.x.x] 4 Texas-Independent-Energy6328-custidna.cust-rtr.swbell.net [151.164.76.189] 5 * bb2-p7-1.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.190.248] 6 ppp-151-164-52-78.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.52.78] 7 * asn6939-he.eqdltx.sbcgobal.net [151.164.248.150] 8 10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.lax1.he.net [72.52.92.57] 9 10gigabitethernet1-3.core1.pao1.he.net [72.52.92.21] 10 * 64.71.140.42 11 208.68.243.254 12 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] Computing statistics for 300 seconds... Source to Here This Node/Link Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address 0 SkullStation [192.168.1.113] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 1 0ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% ORION [192.168.1.1] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 2 14ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% cab1-1.1scom.net [66.182.x.x] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 3 15ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% DSL2-5.1scom.net [66.182.x.x] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 4 12ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% Texas-Independent-Energy6328-custidna.cust-rtr.swbell.net [151.164.76.189] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 5 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% bb2-p7-1.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.190.248] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 6 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% ppp-151-164-52-78.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.52.78] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 7 13ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% asn6939-he.eqdltx.sbcgobal.net [151.164.248.150] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 8 51ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.lax1.he.net [72.52.92.57] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 9 59ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 10gigabitethernet1-3.core1.pao1.he.net [72.52.92.21] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 10 59ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 64.71.140.42 6/ 100 = 6% \| 11 64ms 6/ 100 = 6% 0/ 100 = 0% 208.68.243.254 1/ 100 = 1% \| 12 62ms 7/ 100 = 7% 0/ 100 = 0% boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] Trace complete. line 5 and 6 don't look good, looks like some loss at the upload server and at the last hop. ____________
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VBobier Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 40733 Credit: 32,028,275 RAC: 20,069	Message 972031 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 4:38:41 UTC - in response to Message 972030. Last modified: 20 Feb 2010, 4:54:29 UTC
C:\>pathping 208.68.240.16 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu Tracing route to boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] over a maximum of 30 hops: 0 SkullStation [192.168.1.113] 1 ORION [192.168.1.1] 2 cab1-1.1scom.net [66.182.x.x] 3 DSL2-5.1scom.net [66.182.x.x] 4 Texas-Independent-Energy6328-custidna.cust-rtr.swbell.net [151.164.76.189] 5 * bb2-p7-1.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.190.248] 6 ppp-151-164-52-78.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.52.78] 7 * asn6939-he.eqdltx.sbcgobal.net [151.164.248.150] 8 10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.lax1.he.net [72.52.92.57] 9 10gigabitethernet1-3.core1.pao1.he.net [72.52.92.21] 10 * 64.71.140.42 11 208.68.243.254 12 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] Computing statistics for 300 seconds... Source to Here This Node/Link Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address 0 SkullStation [192.168.1.113] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 1 0ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% ORION [192.168.1.1] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 2 14ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% cab1-1.1scom.net [66.182.x.x] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 3 15ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% DSL2-5.1scom.net [66.182.x.x] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 4 12ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% Texas-Independent-Energy6328-custidna.cust-rtr.swbell.net [151.164.76.189] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 5 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% bb2-p7-1.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.190.248] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 6 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% ppp-151-164-52-78.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.52.78] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 7 13ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% asn6939-he.eqdltx.sbcgobal.net [151.164.248.150] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 8 51ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.lax1.he.net [72.52.92.57] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 9 59ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 10gigabitethernet1-3.core1.pao1.he.net [72.52.92.21] 0/ 100 = 0% \| 10 59ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 64.71.140.42 <<Hurricane Electric 6/ 100 = 6% \| 11 64ms 6/ 100 = 6% 0/ 100 = 0% 208.68.243.254 <<Seti@Home 1/ 100 = 1% \| 12 62ms 7/ 100 = 7% 0/ 100 = 0% boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] Trace complete. I also had to remove the [quote] tags too. I thought I'd make It more readable, So I added a couple of [pre] and [size] tags to Your output. ____________ BSG Anthem My Facebook page
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VBobier Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 40733 Credit: 32,028,275 RAC: 20,069	Message 972033 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 4:48:45 UTC
I just had a thought and I could be wrong, But could somebody be throttling the project like We're a bunch of P2P file transfers? ____________ BSG Anthem My Facebook page
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RottenMutt Send message Joined: 15 Mar 01 Posts: 929 Credit: 181,617,216 RAC: 211,844	Message 972045 - Posted: 20 Feb 2010, 5:09:19 UTC - in response to Message 972033.
is there anyway to encript the transactions so they aren't blocked??? ____________
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maybe look at the configuration of your switches. no work is uploading, nor are scheduler requests.
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I'm not sure you understand -- All of my WUs are finally uploaded -- But I C A N - N O T CONNECT TO R E P O R T Them For More Than 48 Hours!!! I don't think this has anything to do with splitters being down.

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It's aggravating that some people simply aren't seeing this problem while others have been seeing this even before the AC crash and the first group is saying "all is well".

Fwiw, I've got more than a couple of computers trying to send results over the last 72 to 96 hours. They managed to get about 75% through since the recovery from the A/C failure (but I was certainly having problems before then) - the rest are sitting here trying to upload but getting HTTP errors and backing off, and when they can connect to download they're being told the project has no jobs available (that may be true given the onslaught of people trying to catch up, i don't know).

I'm in the 'something's still not quite right' camp, but just holding out, since there's obviously not much we can do.

If nothing else it's a good reminder to take a breath. Maybe some of us get tunnelvision for numbercrunching.... must get more!mustgetmore! or maybe that's just me. dunno yet.

Either way, hat's off to the S@H team for giving it all they've got, and hope all have a great weekend.

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... One of the raid arrays on thumper lost a drive...

you guys seem to loose way to many drives! how many do you have?

anybody got work?
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... One of the raid arrays on thumper lost a drive...

you guys seem to loose way to many drives! how many do you have?

anybody got work?

Until about 2am PST, Sure, I've got work, After that, I doubt It highly. It's going to be colder than usual in the morning here(I leave the heater off at night since I'm the only living person around here anymore). Mom doesn't need anything as She's happy on Her shelf in My closet for eternity. :D
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Superjoker: as explained elsewhere the backoffs are our friend as without them the servers would be flooded with requests & no-one would get anywhere. The longer the backoffs the better as it spreads the load more.

Backoffs are a perfect technique for spreading the load when when the complete system is capable of handling (with an adequate satety margin) the aggregate anticipated demand averaged over an extended period of time. That's how SETI normally runs, and a few backoffs to shave the peaks and fill the troughs are exactly what's needed.

Backoffs do not help if the aggregate load exceeds - over an extended period - the system's capacity to absorb work. Then you have to take more drastic action, to reduce demand or increase supply.

For the last 4.5 days (only), SETI's capacity to absorb work has been below demand. I see no sign that demand has increased: instead, it seems to me that capacity has decreased (hopefully, temporarily).

No amount of smoothing (backoffs) will solve this. What is needed is to restore the status quo ante on the capacity side.

BOINC has a built in mechanism for this as well. If there are more than 2 * ncpus results waiting for uploads, no work will be requested. This was originally put in place to limit the growth on the client for a couple of projects where the upload time exceeded the crunch time. It also has the effect of limiting work being done if upload is slowed for an extended period.
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... One of the raid arrays on thumper lost a drive...

you guys seem to loose way to many drives! how many do you have?

anybody got work?

Lots and lots of work from many projects (just not much from SETI).
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I can not UL thousands of results and not report/request new work.

Since days only idle PCs.

It's not at my side, DSL router switched off/on and PCs rebooted.

Yes, sure.. I'm patiently..
Only for info.

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Guess this weekend sucks for seti....

2/19/2010 5:17:07 PM SETI@home Reporting 384 completed tasks, not requesting new tasks
2/19/2010 5:17:29 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2/19/2010 5:17:30 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
2/19/2010 5:17:32 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server

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Guess this weekend sucks for seti....

2/19/2010 5:17:07 PM SETI@home Reporting 384 completed tasks, not requesting new tasks
2/19/2010 5:17:29 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2/19/2010 5:17:30 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
2/19/2010 5:17:32 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server

Dittos here - has anybody a clue as to why this is happening? It's been several days, and not a hint as to what is going on.....
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Until about 2am PST, Sure, I've got work, After that, I doubt It highly. It's going to be colder than usual in the morning here(I leave the heater off at night since I'm the only living person around here anymore). Mom doesn't need anything as She's happy on Her shelf in My closet for eternity. :D

we got snow in the forcast for early next week, so it looks like i will be in the cold with you. it's just me and my doberman, i pitty the person who tries and rip me off. i'm sure the staff went home, so this is it for the week end, with just noise on the inlet pipe of clients trying to upload, but no one is home.
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Guess this weekend sucks for seti....

2/19/2010 5:17:07 PM SETI@home Reporting 384 completed tasks, not requesting new tasks
2/19/2010 5:17:29 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2/19/2010 5:17:30 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
2/19/2010 5:17:32 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server

Dittos here - has anybody a clue as to why this is happening? It's been several days, and not a hint as to what is going on.....

Nope and It was happening before the last outage and when I said something others said I was wrong, turns out I was right(told ya so), But still there is no idea where the blockage comes from as Seti doesn't seem to be getting anything and We don't get acks for uploads and can't report.
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Pathping is reporting some packet losses in the San Jose area.

The command in XP is

C:\pathping 208.68.240.16 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu

The ip address is the upload server (from my hosts file). You need both parts - the ip and the name. Pathping /? for options.

The losses aren't huge pct-wise, but they are consistent.

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Had over 100 uploads at 15:30 Central time. It is now 20:14 Central time and all uploads have completed. The "ready to upload" feature is still having problems connecting. I'm just letting the system do what it does.
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Eric:

Thanks for the update.

FYI: While the recovery from the A/C outage was happening my Mac 10.5.8 was not having problems reporting work units. My PC XP Pro was timing out. I suspect that the Mac has a better TCP/IP stack. My pointing this out is I don't know if there is anything you can tune on your side to assist in a recovery for the PC crowd. If both sides don't time out at about the same time, that will clog the pipes and make it more painful for everyone.

Hope the rain isn't too fast and furious up there. About to start here in LA LA land.

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Pathping is reporting some packet losses in the San Jose area.

The command in XP is

C:\pathping 208.68.240.16 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu

The ip address is the upload server (from my hosts file). You need both parts - the ip and the name. Pathping /? for options.

The losses aren't huge pct-wise, but they are consistent.

Martin

Thanks Martin, I never knew about pathping, Here's My results using XP64:

Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790] (C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.PC1>pathping 208.68.240.16 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu Tracing route to boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] over a maximum of 30 hops: 0 pc1.westell.com [192.168.1.45] 1 dslrouter.westell.com [192.168.1.1] 2 L100.LSANCA-DSL-35.verizon-gni.net [71.105.32.1] 3 9-0-2935.LSANCA-LCR-09.verizon-gni.net [130.81.136.14] 4 so-4-0-0-0.LAX01-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.28.72] 5 0.so-6-3-0.XT1.LAX9.ALTER.NET [152.63.10.153] 6 0.ge-7-1-0.XL3.SJC7.ALTER.NET [152.63.48.254] 7 POS6-0-0.GW4.SJC7.ALTER.NET [152.63.48.241] 8 teliasonera-test-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.215.70] 9 hurricane-113209-sjo-bb1.c.telia.net [213.248.86.54] 10 64.71.140.42 11 208.68.243.254 12 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] Computing statistics for 300 seconds... Source to Here This Node/Link Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address 0 pc1.westell.com [192.168.1.45] 0/ 100 = 0% | 1 1ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% dslrouter.westell.com [192.168.1.1] 0/ 100 = 0% | 2 37ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% L100.LSANCA-DSL-35.verizon-gni.net [71.105.32.1] 0/ 100 = 0% | 3 38ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 9-0-2935.LSANCA-LCR-09.verizon-gni.net [130.81.136.14] 0/ 100 = 0% | 4 40ms 2/ 100 = 2% 2/ 100 = 2% so-4-0-0-0.LAX01-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.28.72] 0/ 100 = 0% | 5 42ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1% 0.so-6-3-0.XT1.LAX9.ALTER.NET [152.63.10.153] 0/ 100 = 0% | 6 50ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1% 0.ge-7-1-0.XL3.SJC7.ALTER.NET [152.63.48.254] 0/ 100 = 0% | 7 48ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% POS6-0-0.GW4.SJC7.ALTER.NET [152.63.48.241] 0/ 100 = 0% | 8 59ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1% teliasonera-test-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.215.70] 0/ 100 = 0% | 9 54ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1% hurricane-113209-sjo-bb1.c.telia.net [213.248.86.54] 0/ 100 = 0% | 10 57ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 64.71.140.42 5/ 100 = 5% | 11 57ms 5/ 100 = 5% 0/ 100 = 0% 208.68.243.254 8/ 100 = 8% | 12 55ms 13/ 100 = 13% 0/ 100 = 0% boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] Trace complete. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.PC1>

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C:\>pathping 208.68.240.16 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu Tracing route to boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] over a maximum of 30 hops: 0 SkullStation [192.168.1.113] 1 ORION [192.168.1.1] 2 cab1-1.1scom.net [66.182.x.x] 3 DSL2-5.1scom.net [66.182.x.x] 4 Texas-Independent-Energy6328-custidna.cust-rtr.swbell.net [151.164.76.189] 5 * bb2-p7-1.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.190.248] 6 ppp-151-164-52-78.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.52.78] 7 * asn6939-he.eqdltx.sbcgobal.net [151.164.248.150] 8 10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.lax1.he.net [72.52.92.57] 9 10gigabitethernet1-3.core1.pao1.he.net [72.52.92.21] 10 * 64.71.140.42 11 208.68.243.254 12 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] Computing statistics for 300 seconds... Source to Here This Node/Link Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address 0 SkullStation [192.168.1.113] 0/ 100 = 0% | 1 0ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% ORION [192.168.1.1] 0/ 100 = 0% | 2 14ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% cab1-1.1scom.net [66.182.x.x] 0/ 100 = 0% | 3 15ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% DSL2-5.1scom.net [66.182.x.x] 0/ 100 = 0% | 4 12ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% Texas-Independent-Energy6328-custidna.cust-rtr.swbell.net [151.164.76.189] 0/ 100 = 0% | 5 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% bb2-p7-1.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.190.248] 0/ 100 = 0% | 6 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% ppp-151-164-52-78.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.52.78] 0/ 100 = 0% | 7 13ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% asn6939-he.eqdltx.sbcgobal.net [151.164.248.150] 0/ 100 = 0% | 8 51ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.lax1.he.net [72.52.92.57] 0/ 100 = 0% | 9 59ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 10gigabitethernet1-3.core1.pao1.he.net [72.52.92.21] 0/ 100 = 0% | 10 59ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 64.71.140.42 6/ 100 = 6% | 11 64ms 6/ 100 = 6% 0/ 100 = 0% 208.68.243.254 1/ 100 = 1% | 12 62ms 7/ 100 = 7% 0/ 100 = 0% boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] Trace complete.

line 5 and 6 don't look good, looks like some loss at the upload server and at the last hop.
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C:\>pathping 208.68.240.16 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu Tracing route to boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] over a maximum of 30 hops: 0 SkullStation [192.168.1.113] 1 ORION [192.168.1.1] 2 cab1-1.1scom.net [66.182.x.x] 3 DSL2-5.1scom.net [66.182.x.x] 4 Texas-Independent-Energy6328-custidna.cust-rtr.swbell.net [151.164.76.189] 5 * bb2-p7-1.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.190.248] 6 ppp-151-164-52-78.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.52.78] 7 * asn6939-he.eqdltx.sbcgobal.net [151.164.248.150] 8 10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.lax1.he.net [72.52.92.57] 9 10gigabitethernet1-3.core1.pao1.he.net [72.52.92.21] 10 * 64.71.140.42 11 208.68.243.254 12 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] Computing statistics for 300 seconds... Source to Here This Node/Link Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address 0 SkullStation [192.168.1.113] 0/ 100 = 0% | 1 0ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% ORION [192.168.1.1] 0/ 100 = 0% | 2 14ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% cab1-1.1scom.net [66.182.x.x] 0/ 100 = 0% | 3 15ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% DSL2-5.1scom.net [66.182.x.x] 0/ 100 = 0% | 4 12ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% Texas-Independent-Energy6328-custidna.cust-rtr.swbell.net [151.164.76.189] 0/ 100 = 0% | 5 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% bb2-p7-1.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net [151.164.190.248] 0/ 100 = 0% | 6 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% ppp-151-164-52-78.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.52.78] 0/ 100 = 0% | 7 13ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% asn6939-he.eqdltx.sbcgobal.net [151.164.248.150] 0/ 100 = 0% | 8 51ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.lax1.he.net [72.52.92.57] 0/ 100 = 0% | 9 59ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 10gigabitethernet1-3.core1.pao1.he.net [72.52.92.21] 0/ 100 = 0% | 10 59ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 64.71.140.42 <<Hurricane Electric 6/ 100 = 6% | 11 64ms 6/ 100 = 6% 0/ 100 = 0% 208.68.243.254 <<Seti@Home 1/ 100 = 1% | 12 62ms 7/ 100 = 7% 0/ 100 = 0% boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.18] Trace complete.

I also had to remove the [quote] tags too.

I thought I'd make It more readable, So I added a couple of [pre] and [size] tags to Your output.
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I just had a thought and I could be wrong, But could somebody be throttling the project like We're a bunch of P2P file transfers?
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is there anyway to encript the transactions so they aren't blocked???
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