status : October 20, 2010

Message boards : Technical News : status : October 20, 2010

Author	Message
Jeff Cobb Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 108 Credit: 40,367 RAC: 0	Message 1043233 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 19:18:15 UTC
	The good news is that forums are up and the projects will be up soon. The bad news is that the work limits will be quite restrictive for a while. This is because we swapped the boinc mysql db master and replica servers. The master had been mork and mork has just become too unreliable The new master is jocelyn and it has less than half the memory of mork. The good news is that the bad news is temporary, because yesterday we ordered a new mork! It should be here in a couple of weeks. Details on this will follow. BTW, we also ordered the new science db server! We'll have to feel out the outage schedule over the next few weeks. Thank you for your amazing support and your patience. ____________
	ID: 1043233 ·

Brkovip Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 274 Credit: 140,703,127 RAC: 51,647	Message 1043236 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 19:21:12 UTC - in response to Message 1043233.
	I think we should have a funeral for Mork when the new Mork gets here. He's been used and abused for a long time and deserves a nice send off. ____________
	ID: 1043236 ·

Sten-Arne Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Nov 08 Posts: 2688 Credit: 7,711,643 RAC: 24,080	Message 1043240 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 19:27:48 UTC - in response to Message 1043233.
	The good news is that forums are up and the projects will be up soon. The bad news is that the work limits will be quite restrictive for a while. This is because we swapped the boinc mysql db master and replica servers. The master had been mork and mork has just become too unreliable The new master is jocelyn and it has less than half the memory of mork. The good news is that the bad news is temporary, because yesterday we ordered a new mork! It should be here in a couple of weeks. Details on this will follow. BTW, we also ordered the new science db server! We'll have to feel out the outage schedule over the next few weeks. Thank you for your amazing support and your patience. Thanks for the update. Oh, btw take a look at the topic. It isn't the 10th today. ____________ /The grumpy old Swede. "I'm so old, that 98% of all trees in the forest, are younger than I am"
	ID: 1043240 ·

Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 2340 Credit: 11,691,844 RAC: 383	Message 1043242 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 19:30:15 UTC - in response to Message 1043233.
	thank you Jeff, for the update Best Wishes Byron
	ID: 1043242 ·

X-Files 27 Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 100 Credit: 104,569,861 RAC: 34,569	Message 1043243 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 19:30:23 UTC
	Can it be salvage to be a development servers so we won't have these 3 day outage? ____________
	ID: 1043243 ·

B-Man Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Feb 01 Posts: 253 Credit: 147,366 RAC: 1	Message 1043250 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 19:44:06 UTC
	Thanks for the update Jeff. Hope the hard work and bailing wire hold together as we startup this time. ____________
	ID: 1043250 ·

Cliff Harding Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 18 Aug 99 Posts: 608 Credit: 34,411,554 RAC: 54,966	Message 1043254 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 19:54:56 UTC - in response to Message 1043233.
	The good news is that forums are up and the projects will be up soon. The bad news is that the work limits will be quite restrictive for a while. This is because we swapped the boinc mysql db master and replica servers. The master had been mork and mork has just become too unreliable The new master is jocelyn and it has less than half the memory of mork. The good news is that the bad news is temporary, because yesterday we ordered a new mork! It should be here in a couple of weeks. Details on this will follow. BTW, we also ordered the new science db server! We'll have to feel out the outage schedule over the next few weeks. Thank you for your amazing support and your patience. Jeff thanks for the update. We know that one of the new servers will be Oscar and Mork has been such a hard and valued worker though these many years that I think he should be the sire of the newest addition to the Seti family and his name carried forth, say as in MorkII?
	ID: 1043254 ·

Claggy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 3368 Credit: 25,955,947 RAC: 1,472	Message 1043259 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 20:06:47 UTC - in response to Message 1043233.
	Thanks for the update Jeff, Claggy
	ID: 1043259 ·

Starfleet7 Send message Joined: 15 May 01 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,916 RAC: 0	Message 1043263 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 20:10:11 UTC - in response to Message 1043233.
	Hello: I was a classic SETI@home guy (45,000 hours) from 2001 until they started BOINC, which i didn't like. I have been offline for many years, but recently rejoined a week or so ago. I have been without tasks for days now. I see there is a server issue. Hope you have it up soon. Robert ____________
	ID: 1043263 ·

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 7461 Credit: 39,737,192 RAC: 34,472	Message 1043267 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 20:19:59 UTC - in response to Message 1043233.
	The good news... The bad news is that the work limits will be quite restrictive for a while. Jeff, when you say "work limits", what exactly are you planning? If it's the 'work in progress' you've been fine tuning over the last few months, are you aware that it could make the problem even worse? Recent BOINC clients are designed to back off, and not keep pestering the server, if a scheduler request for more work doesn't get an allocation of work - for whatever reason. BUT.... that backoff is set to zero every time a task completes. Hosts fitted with multiple CUDA cards can, in the worst case, finish a task every couple of minutes or so. With 'in progress' limits set, these hosts will be sending work requests almost constantly. To protect Jocelyn, it might be better to increase the minimum time between scheduler contacts. That delay is surrently set at 11 seconds: I think it might be better to increase it to 5 or 10 minutes while Jocelyn is shouldering the burden alone. I think the config setting is <min_sendwork_interval>, but you'll know better. Because it's a server limit, it isn't reset by the client on task completion.
	ID: 1043267 ·

Julie Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 8467 Credit: 1,407,514 RAC: 4,622	Message 1043290 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 20:56:16 UTC
	Nevermind the bad news, I like the good news! Thanx Jeff :) ____________
	ID: 1043290 ·

Eric Korpela Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 952 Credit: 5,684,725 RAC: 6,323	Message 1043291 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 20:57:39 UTC - in response to Message 1043267.
	Thanks for the idea, Richard. We'll be trying it out. ____________
	ID: 1043291 ·

Bill G Send message Joined: 1 Jun 01 Posts: 241 Credit: 19,122,542 RAC: 25,376	Message 1043295 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 21:03:31 UTC - in response to Message 1043240. Last modified: 20 Oct 2010, 21:04:11 UTC
	Thanks for the update. Oh, btw take a look at the topic. It isn't the 10th today. +1 and that is the US date: month/day/year.......... ____________
	ID: 1043295 ·

Jeff Cobb Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 108 Credit: 40,367 RAC: 0	Message 1043301 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 21:16:14 UTC - in response to Message 1043295.
	Thanks for the update. Oh, btw take a look at the topic. It isn't the 10th today. +1 and that is the US date: month/day/year.......... OK OK... :-) ____________
	ID: 1043301 ·

soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6231 Credit: 27,519,325 RAC: 8,439	Message 1043314 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 21:41:08 UTC
	I have to agree.. Mork deserves a wake when he is returned to Ork. ____________ Janice
	ID: 1043314 ·

cwburch Send message Joined: 23 Jul 00 Posts: 50 Credit: 6,100,781 RAC: 14,005	Message 1043333 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 22:05:54 UTC
	The name MORK needs to be retired with honors having served with such due diligence for almost 10 years now, and a permanent "plaque" commemorating his service and albiet, sacrifice, permanently posted in a "R-I-P" frame on the homepage. The new one being the "youngster" in the family should be named "MORK-JR. Likewise, his "birth certificate" should be posted for awhile on the homepage listing his "vitals" and parents. (would that make MINDY a mother now?) I can see that the temporary fix had at least a momentary connection, because one of my computers started a WU download and is now "pending" at just under a percent. Maybe one of these days I'll hit jackpot on the Florida lotto and we can replace all the old ones with new ones named after all the tele-tubbies! -Carl
	ID: 1043333 ·

perryjay Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3359 Credit: 9,665,541 RAC: 10,175	Message 1043353 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 22:17:11 UTC - in response to Message 1043333.
	Carl, Actually Mork and Mindy did get married and have a son, Mearth (Jonathon Winters). ____________ PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC
	ID: 1043353 ·

megman Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 2 Credit: 384,101 RAC: 0	Message 1043355 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 22:22:13 UTC - in response to Message 1043236.
	I think we should have a funeral for Mork when the new Mork gets here. He's been used and abused for a long time and deserves a nice send off. Invite Art Bell down with his .45. Art would be honored.
	ID: 1043355 ·

perryjay Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3359 Credit: 9,665,541 RAC: 10,175	Message 1043356 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 22:22:40 UTC
	I guess this is some kind of false reading on the server status page.. BOINC replica database mork Running ____________ PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC
	ID: 1043356 ·

[AF>EDLS] Polynesia Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Apr 09 Posts: 54 Credit: 2,389,559 RAC: 5,659	Message 1043364 - Posted: 20 Oct 2010, 22:36:40 UTC
	Hello, I wish you good luck to all what it takes to solve all these problems and that new materials arrive speeds, as were all looking forward I think these worries are behind us ... and finally uninterruptible power cruncher ... ____________ Alliance Francophone
	ID: 1043364 ·

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