Up (Dec 07 2010)

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Josef W. Segur Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 3931 Credit: 934,263 RAC: 14	Message 1054867 - Posted: 11 Dec 2010, 3:48:54 UTC
	I particularly admire their timing. With production limited to about 60000 MB and 570 AP tasks per hour for more than 2 days, many hosts reached the in progress limit. So turning up the creation rate did not lead to hordes of hosts trying to download 300 Mbps through a 100 Mbps pipe. If things go well over the weekend, I suppose the in progress limits will be boosted Monday. The system reaction will be interesting to watch. Joe
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Mike Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 19470 Credit: 21,092,853 RAC: 26,634	Message 1054917 - Posted: 11 Dec 2010, 9:00:41 UTC
	The current result creation rate is 48+ per second. Nice job. ____________
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ML1 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 7115 Credit: 3,682,229 RAC: 926	Message 1054934 - Posted: 11 Dec 2010, 10:43:42 UTC - in response to Message 1054457.
	One more minor update: We continue to beat up on oscar - long story short we're finding our biggest hurdle in utilizing the server to its maximum potential is probably the stripe size on the raid subsystem (which is set to the factory default as it's hard to predict these bottlenecks until everything is turned on). I think I can adjust it live - and we'll try these sort of tests/updates early next week. In the meantime, more testing with what we got... - Matt If you can change it live, that's quite a trick. What?!!! Changing stripes live?!!!! Errr... Do a backup, make the change, and then write a sysop paper for the Oscar tweakings? ;-) Good luck for the tweaks, Happy crunchin', Martin ____________ Mandriva Linux A user friendly OS! See new freedom Mageia2 The Future is what We make IT (GPLv3)
	ID: 1054934 ·

[seti.international] Philip J. Fry Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 6566 Credit: 50,725,122 RAC: 20,304	Message 1055013 - Posted: 11 Dec 2010, 15:41:15 UTC
	Matt, thanks for the news! ----------------------------------- I hope it's nothing broken.. The server status page isn't updated the last ~ 9 hours. And.. Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks Message from server: Project has no tasks available ____________ >Das Deutsche Cafe. The German Cafe.<
	ID: 1055013 ·

seti@elrcastor.com Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Jan 00 Posts: 35 Credit: 4,652,425 RAC: 1,424	Message 1055232 - Posted: 11 Dec 2010, 23:17:15 UTC Last modified: 11 Dec 2010, 23:17:33 UTC
	looks like the outgoing traffic dropped off around 0300 PST ____________
	ID: 1055232 ·

N9JFE Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 2469 Credit: 8,391,047 RAC: 14,760	Message 1055321 - Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 6:25:54 UTC - in response to Message 1055013.
	Matt, thanks for the news! ----------------------------------- I hope it's nothing broken.. The server status page isn't updated the last ~ 9 hours. And.. Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks Message from server: Project has no tasks available The Server Status page is now closing on 24 hours since it last updated. I bet no one goes in on the weekend to fix that, especially since everything else does seem to be working. I keep sending in results and getting new work, and the ones I've returned and were validated have even been purged already (I thought they were supposed to wait a day before being purged). It's good to be doing work again, and even better to be doing it without crashing. David ____________ David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.
	ID: 1055321 ·

VBobier Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 40765 Credit: 32,068,893 RAC: 19,769	Message 1055406 - Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 15:56:34 UTC
	Say I've not been receiving any emails from seti@home since 2:56pm PST on Dec 11th, Is everything ok? ____________ BSG Anthem My Facebook page
	ID: 1055406 ·

RottenMutt Send message Joined: 15 Mar 01 Posts: 929 Credit: 182,012,576 RAC: 205,472	Message 1055412 - Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 16:22:36 UTC - in response to Message 1055321.
	... I keep sending in results and getting new work. 12/11 4:36 am CST was the last work unit i was able to dl, and after no new work. ____________
	ID: 1055412 ·

Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 10313 Credit: 5,073,723 RAC: 6,091	Message 1055431 - Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 17:32:43 UTC - in response to Message 1055406.
	Say I've not been receiving any emails from seti@home since 2:56pm PST on Dec 11th, Is everything ok? What is the date/time on the status page? The one that is supposed to update every 5 or 10 minutes. ____________
	ID: 1055431 ·

Matt Lebofsky Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1375 Credit: 74,079 RAC: 0	Message 1055515 - Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 23:12:46 UTC
	FYI, a disk failure on worf (the raw data storage server) which locked up the RAID requiring a cold reboot (and nobody is around/able to get up to the lab to do so). Only public downside is we ran out of work to send. This'll get fixed Monday morning. - Matt ____________ -- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person -- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude
	ID: 1055515 ·

Sten-Arne Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Nov 08 Posts: 2685 Credit: 7,620,966 RAC: 24,225	Message 1055518 - Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 23:18:15 UTC - in response to Message 1055515.
	FYI, a disk failure on worf (the raw data storage server) which locked up the RAID requiring a cold reboot (and nobody is around/able to get up to the lab to do so). Only public downside is we ran out of work to send. This'll get fixed Monday morning. - Matt No sweat Matt. Let the weekend be what it is supposed to be. We can wait until Monday, heck I can wait much longer than that if needed :-) ____________ /The grumpy old Swede. "I'm so old, that 98% of all trees in the forest, are younger than I am"
	ID: 1055518 ·

Claggy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 3363 Credit: 25,949,513 RAC: 1,273	Message 1055520 - Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 23:21:01 UTC - in response to Message 1055515.
	Thanks for the update Matt, Claggy
	ID: 1055520 ·

perryjay Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3359 Credit: 9,624,154 RAC: 9,958	Message 1055528 - Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 23:35:25 UTC - in response to Message 1055515.
	Thanks Matt,I'm right on the wire for running out of work. Bet I run out before you get it fixed! :-) Only joking. Glad you know what the trouble is and that it won't be hard to fix. So it was Worf causing all the trouble? Never did trust that Klingon!! ____________ PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC
	ID: 1055528 ·

Chris S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 22682 Credit: 4,505,585 RAC: 5,850	Message 1055530 - Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 23:43:35 UTC
	Thanks for the update Matt. ____________ Damsel Rescuer, Kitty Patron, Raccoon Friend, Uli Fan, Julie Supporter, ES99 Admirer, PETA Member, 1st Childhood
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bill Send message Joined: 16 Jun 99 Posts: 567 Credit: 13,822,789 RAC: 20,773	Message 1055533 - Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 23:53:14 UTC - in response to Message 1055515.
	Thanks Matt. If you need someone to just sit around and press a reset button occasionally, we can probably find a volunteer.
	ID: 1055533 ·

tbret Send message Joined: 28 May 99 Posts: 1800 Credit: 123,604,445 RAC: 404,220	Message 1055558 - Posted: 13 Dec 2010, 0:56:08 UTC - in response to Message 1055515.
	Thank you for giving us an update on this Sunday afternoon / evening. And thank you for bothering to check or giving a flip on December 12 with all sorts of Christmas events and rush and things-to-do competing with the project. Personally, I'm glad to know that the project isn't so all-consuming in your (and others') life that someone felt like they had to go to the campus and flip a switch in a right now, tonight, oh-my-gosh emergency, "how will we live?" panic. The two year mission is eleven and a half years old. You've been on it for what, thirteen or fourteen years? Speaking only for myself, I can hunt for alien transmissions orders of magnitude faster than I could way back when. So, on the one hand, the time lost to crunch means a lot more data isn't being crunched per hour, but we can do a month's worth of 1999 crunching in what, a day? I can only imagine that this starts feeling like a tremendous burden at some point. Don't get to that point. I don't want to hear you scream, "I mean, down here are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing - they're flashing and they're beeping. I can't stand it anymore! They're blinking and beeping and flashing! Why doesn't somebody pull the plug!" Bret ____________
	ID: 1055558 ·

Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 3885 Credit: 357,330 RAC: 789	Message 1055568 - Posted: 13 Dec 2010, 2:52:00 UTC - in response to Message 1055515.
	FYI, a disk failure on worf (the raw data storage server) which locked up the RAID requiring a cold reboot (and nobody is around/able to get up to the lab to do so). Only public downside is we ran out of work to send. This'll get fixed Monday morning. - Matt Thanks for the update, Matt. Monday morning is plenty soon enough for me, I've got enough work to last until Tuesday. ____________ Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired
	ID: 1055568 ·

msattler Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 34128 Credit: 342,960,558 RAC: 537,842	Message 1055579 - Posted: 13 Dec 2010, 4:48:46 UTC
	Thanks for the update, Matt. Nice to know that is does not appear to be a problem with the new servers. ____________ ****** "Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty." As it is kitten, so shall it be done.
	ID: 1055579 ·

[seti.international] Philip J. Fry Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 6566 Credit: 50,725,122 RAC: 20,304	Message 1055608 - Posted: 13 Dec 2010, 10:26:59 UTC - in response to Message 1055515.
	Matt, thanks for the news! ____________ >Das Deutsche Cafe. The German Cafe.<
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Jaye Ellen Send message Joined: 29 Nov 08 Posts: 24 Credit: 2,919,316 RAC: 2,603	Message 1055675 - Posted: 13 Dec 2010, 18:00:40 UTC
	Sorry to be such a pain, but I still cannot get work units. I uninstalled and reinstalled SETI severasl times and still I can get zero work units. What might I be doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any and all help! Jaye Ellen
	ID: 1055675 ·

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