recent woes

Could these latest issues be a result of the flood of work coming in after opening the pipe to the outside world?

Just because the SETI machines have gone into maintenance doesn't mean that all those BOINC machines are dozing. I believe that the SETI member have generally increased the amount of local work they hold to cover the normal 3 day outage and are are building up a massive backlog that has to look like a Tsunami once the gates are reopened. Now that the outage is longer the backlog is likely even larger causing even more problems for the SETI systems.

Is there anyway that the SETI team can force the SETI preferences to limit work to only one day on local machines until this gets sorted out?

Sometimes shutting down is the worst thing you can do to a system that is suppose to be available 24x7.
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Sometimes shutting down is the worst thing you can do to a system that is suppose to be available 24x7.

Could these latest issues be a result of the flood of work coming in after opening the pipe to the outside world?

Just because the SETI machines have gone into maintenance doesn't mean that all those BOINC machines are dozing. I believe that the SETI member have generally increased the amount of local work they hold to cover the normal 3 day outage and are are building up a massive backlog that has to look like a Tsunami once the gates are reopened. Now that the outage is longer the backlog is likely even larger causing even more problems for the SETI systems.

Is there anyway that the SETI team can force the SETI preferences to limit work to only one day on local machines until this gets sorted out?

Sometimes shutting down is the worst thing you can do to a system that is suppose to be available 24x7.

Many thanks Jeff for your latest update.
In case things go wrong later this week the following might need to be considered:
The Weekly “Outage” (what a horrible word this is) originally was on Tuesdays only; now it seems that the system is closed on Tuesday until an indeterminate time on Friday, followed by things going wrong on Saturday/Sunday.
May I offer a suggestion to get things going as we would all like? Why not shut down SAH completely for a whole month, so that the staff can have the time to get all the systems up & running correctly, once and for all?
Your comments would be appreciated.

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I have currently around 30 tasks waiting to be uploaded and according to my statistics chart, it hasn't been updated since sept 21st. I have been trying to manually upload for the past week or so and keep getting the "internet access is ok but servers may be temporarily down" message. Is this due to ongoing tech issues on your end or is there something wrong on my end?

Dan has contacted HP and Sun to see if they can give us a deep discount on a machine that could replace mork, hopefully deep enough that we can purchase it on what's remaining from the donations made in the Number Crunching threads.

I'm sure you already know this, and the equipment you're using is very likely much better than what I've used, but overheating problems followed by "hangs" might be caused by bad motherboard capacitors. Check the tops of the caps to see if they're expanded or open and leaking--if they are the motherboard is a goner. Sorry if this is obvious to you folks, but figured I would throw this in since I've run across it in the past. Good luck.

Ive had issues with a new rig I recently built, it would hang for how ever long it took me to figure out it wasnt crunching/folding (if i was at work for example) and got home to reboot. Course this only happened about once a week.

I think for me the issue was my 6 core processor kept getting a core shut down. Since I found out a core was being shut down buy my BIOS and remedied this, the computer has not given me issues. Sp far.

Doesnt make sense to me what happened, but like I said, since I fixed the issue in BIOS it hasnt happened again.

With me folding on a gpu, and folding (now also crunching) using all cores, loosing the one seemed to make the rig hang.
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