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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 18996 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
snipped....... We electronic engineers have always used the drop or kick test as a first line tool for faulty equipment. The distinction of being a good, no so good or lousy engineer depends on your skill and experience at delivering the require accurate shock. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Matt.. if I might share.. from my experiences of keeping together antiques that were often poorly "refurbished".. And to think that some people think that I'm daft. LOL Maybe in the future we can just swear at the particular part/item without getting physical but I doubt things will ever get that good. :D |
soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6497 Credit: 34,134,168 RAC: 0 |
The deciding factor for a technician to be considered a genius or an idiot.. Close the data room door. If they see how you fixed things.. you are an idiot. If they do not, you are magical! Janice |
ToxicTBag Send message Joined: 5 Feb 10 Posts: 101 Credit: 57,197,902 RAC: 0 |
Agrees with soft^spirit lol. |
KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0 |
Matt.. if I might share.. from my experiences of keeping together antiques that were often poorly "refurbished".. It's not that we were angry at the terminal (this was back in the days of mainframes...) it is because the technique worked! The slap or drop reset contacts inside the terminal, (not gold-plated, for some reason...) which we (I and a collegue were the primary terminal fixers in the IT department - it was a secondary job for me, I was primarily a computer operator...) didn't have the knowledge to dis-assemble. (we'd have to call an outside contractor for that...) . Hello, from Albany, CA!... |
Sutaru Tsureku Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 5 |
'server run, August 13-16 2010' Because of the upper mentioned thread is closed, I write here. Since ~ 24 hours the cricket graph show maxed out traffic. So the mentioned 'WU limit in progress' isn't active. My BOINC could DL the adjusted WU cache. To now no server crash. So why would be the limit needed? The new donated server can manage the traffic better now? |
perryjay Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3377 Credit: 20,676,751 RAC: 0 |
When I was repairing military radios we called that the two foot drop test.( They were a lot sturdier than civilian gear so we had to drop them farther.) That or they accidentally fell off the test bench! :-) PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30593 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
The new donated server can manage the traffic better now? Are you talking about the server that they still need to write the purchase order for? |
Terror Australis Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 1817 Credit: 262,693,308 RAC: 44 |
LOL! There ain't much that can't be fixed without the judicious application of a "Birmingham Screwdriver" :-) There are a number of faults in my company's system that list "percussive maintenance" as the fix :-) The Terror P.S. "Planters", "Bedlam" or "Just Right" (A Breakfasr Cereal in Oz that contains the afore mentioned fruits, nuts and flakes) all sound good to me :-) |
Sutaru Tsureku Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 5 |
The new donated server can manage the traffic better now? Ohh.. I thought the new donated server is already in the SETI@home lab. So then, I'm much more curious why we didn't saw/don't have a server crash. ;-) |
Sutaru Tsureku Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 5 |
~ 28 1/2 hours maxed out traffic. The cricket graph isn't longer maxed out. So all PCs out there DLed their adjusted WU cache. So I'm curious why we had/needed 'WU limit in progress'. IIRC, it was for to protect server crashes. But now, it worked without a limit. The server are now more stable because of the last 3 day outage? If, what the SETI@home crew did, what made the server more stable? |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
@Sutaru So I'm curious why we had/needed 'WU limit in progress'. In the first post of this thread, Matt said That's all good, but the week in general has been tainted by mork issues in general. It had one of its regular mystery crashes on Tuesday (followed by a long recovery). Then last night, and again this morning, the RAID mirror of two solid state drives (where we keep the innodb logs) started going flakey on us. The partition would just disappear, sending mysql into fits. We were able to quickly recover, but we're abandoning the solid state drives for now. Honestly, they weren't adding all that much to the i/o picture because we were cautious about how we were implementing them. Now I'm glad we were cautious. The upshot of all the above meant that we had to recovery the replica as many as four times so far from the weekly backup. What a pain. The latest replica recovery is happening as I type this. All I hope is that all systems are normal and stable by tomorrow. Maybe that's part of it. If Mork is more stable without the flaky solid-state drives, the whole system is more stable. I'm also seeing fewer problems with goofy estimated completion times. That affects work fetch and cache filling. Maybe the server-side changes made a couple weeks ago are finally settling in. If so, maybe Jeff will feel comfortable raising the Friday-Saturday download limits next week. Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
Dave Barstow Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 76 Credit: 15,064,044 RAC: 0 |
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Josef W. Segur Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0 |
Goofy WU Limits fixed??? Limits and estimates are totally unrelated. The limits which Jeff intended to set would have controlled how many "in progress" tasks of each type a host could have. The difficulty with AP estimates stems from a delay in getting AP validators which interface to the new server-side estimate adjustments. That was fixed during the first week of August, but only AP tasks sent for validation since then can be used in the server average used for that adjustment. Then it takes ten such tasks before the servers will consider the average close enough to use. So you can expect at least the next 8 AP tasks to also be grossly overestimated. If that causes a problem in work fetch, a question in the Number Crunching forum would be the appropriate place for further discussion. Joe |
Fred J. Verster Send message Joined: 21 Apr 04 Posts: 3252 Credit: 31,903,643 RAC: 0 |
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Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
Any chance we can have Seti Beta brought up, so we can upload/report our completed tasks before the Next outage? Claggy Edit: and in future bring it up a bit earlier?, please. |
Sutaru Tsureku Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 5 |
Validate errors! 'Message 1025850' Please disable the UL server/service. For to hold small the value of validate errors. The SETI@home crew will let run the famous script then again for to grant the Cr.? |
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