Extended outage Jul 20 2010 - problems

Hi

If there are problems that appeared as a result of the early start time or other things that have not been talked about please post them here. If you have a major suggestion with a bit of reasoning, you are welcome to post in Outage Observations/Comments - Read the Rules Below. Actually what I digest and have feed back to the Seti staff is getting looked at. The hard part is the balance of what needs to be accomplished and what you the "users" expect.

As a Moderator, I will sticky this thread until Friday when the outage is released. This becomes the location to post observations/issues/suggestions.

Otherwise for a bit of comic relief, Panic Mode (xx version) is good (never trust anything you see there).

If you like to just relax, the Seti Cafe is Open.

For those that have something to say the Political Forum is sometimes a bit much (flakjackets and fireproof pants are recommended).

Regards

Pappa

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We have a political forum but not a Sports forum??

And it's not the same thing!!

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Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....

Good thought Geek@Play
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As I did get time to read a lot of the various threads. It would appear that a portion of the cause of all of the odd things that people saw including the early shutdown was the result of the Boinc Database crashing.

I have not asked, so what I offer is speculation... So with Matt on Staycation I would guess that those left were very busy.

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As I did get time to read a lot of the various threads. It would appear that a portion of the cause of all of the odd things that people saw including the early shutdown was the result of the Boinc Database crashing.

And I posted already in another thread, 40 MB tasks which have a Detached Label, they where UPloaded 13 july. (Previous outage)
One, my biggest, host appears still death, so I switched 1 8500GT for a GTS250, from that host, into another one.
This host now has a GTS250 .
And UPLoads are stuck again, but a look at the SERVER Page, shows;
only BOINC, MB, AP-Data Bases and Data-Driven WEB-Pages, are online and running, the rest, including UPLoad/D--Load is disabled or Not Running.

Could it be the switch (of the CUDA card), that errored out, maybe 4 MB WU's, but 40 tasks ?!
Or they were 'ghost WU's ', or something went wrong during UPLoad, which I doubt!
A little out of topic :)
Hope to get some more tasks, AP tasks @ Bêta are finished, most of them, have to be validated, but are OK. Only 1 AP errored, all were computed with BROOK+ OpenCL rev.434., whitout any error.
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Knight Who Says Ni N!, OUT numbered.................

I set my account to download 10 days data to download and process and only 1 of my systems is rcving all the work units. Have not rcvd new WU's in several days. What is up?

Okay.. I suppose the outtage will start to come up soon, I have coffee brewing, and the mad rush to upload on the horizon...

Are there any major changes we might want to watch out for?

yeah, having 10 days' worth of data is highly recommended, especially for high-output systems. nothing is more frustrating than watching your i7 rig with a gtx 260 sitting idle for 3 days...

keep in mind, however, that if you have a slower computer without a gpu cruncher then you probably only need 2-3 days instead.
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But maybe we will see the .vlar tasks. If they updated the seti splitters.

Well, the MDB Queries are relative high - near 1.200. And the Upload Rate is over 45 Mbits/sec - i haven't seen such a high value...

Helli

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