Panic Mode On (54) Server problems?

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Firehawk Send message Joined: 21 May 99 Posts: 1502 Credit: 235,918,428 RAC: 3,020	Message 1153589 - Posted: 18 Sep 2011, 14:06:44 UTC
	It´s not just the client problem. Even if you request work and it´s available, it´s not beeing assigned. It keeps just sending 0 or 1 even if you are drain. ____________
	ID: 1153589 ·

Khangollo Send message Joined: 1 Aug 00 Posts: 240 Credit: 35,388,857 RAC: 74,482	Message 1153592 - Posted: 18 Sep 2011, 14:21:48 UTC Last modified: 18 Sep 2011, 14:22:58 UTC
	I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of feeder slots are permanently occupied by APs no one wants to have (because no doubt AP task duration is badly F-ed up, too). ____________
	ID: 1153592 ·

WinterKnight Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6814 Credit: 17,130,560 RAC: 26,816	Message 1153597 - Posted: 18 Sep 2011, 14:28:55 UTC Last modified: 18 Sep 2011, 14:29:18 UTC
	If you are only getting 1 or 2 tasks on your requests when you have a large shortfall then take note of Richards post 1153104 in request issues. I'm pretty sure that request for 1 second, when there's a near-30,000 second shortfall, is a DCF safety. Edit - confirmed: I edited DCF by a factor of ten - took out a zero, so 0.013... became 0.13...
	ID: 1153597 ·

Sten-Arne Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Nov 08 Posts: 2688 Credit: 7,687,337 RAC: 23,665	Message 1153600 - Posted: 18 Sep 2011, 14:47:16 UTC - in response to Message 1152837. Last modified: 18 Sep 2011, 14:50:17 UTC
	Asks for work for days, get nothing, still happy, refuse to whine :-) END Edit, added: Come to think of it, if I don't get any work by Sunday evening (local time), I might start some mini whining. So there, it's Sunday evening and still not one single AP received. As promised: Whine, whine, whine. LOL ____________ /The grumpy old Swede. "I'm so old, that 98% of all trees in the forest, are younger than I am"
	ID: 1153600 ·

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 7459 Credit: 39,705,928 RAC: 34,314	Message 1153602 - Posted: 18 Sep 2011, 14:52:23 UTC - in response to Message 1153597.
	And conveniently, just as I was reading that, a host I've been monitoring confirmed it: 18/09/2011 15:35:36 \| \| [work_fetch] NVIDIA GPU: shortfall 132825.49 nidle 0.00 saturated 44294.51 busy 0.00 RS fetchable 100.00 runnable 100.00 18/09/2011 15:35:36 \| SETI@home \| [work_fetch] NVIDIA GPU: fetch share 1.00 LTD 0.00 backoff dt 0.00 int 0.00 18/09/2011 15:35:36 \| \| [work_fetch] No project chosen for work fetch 18/09/2011 15:35:50 \| SETI@home \| Computation for task 12jl11ad.18873.476.9.10.189_0 finished 18/09/2011 15:35:50 \| SETI@home \| [dcf] DCF: 0.016567->0.021427, raw_ratio 0.021427, adj_ratio 1.293360 18/09/2011 15:36:02 \| \| [work_fetch] NVIDIA GPU: shortfall 119854.60 nidle 0.00 saturated 57265.40 busy 0.00 RS fetchable 100.00 runnable 100.00 18/09/2011 15:36:02 \| SETI@home \| [work_fetch] request: CPU (0.00 sec, 0.00 inst) NVIDIA GPU (119854.60 sec, 0.00 inst) 18/09/2011 15:36:02 \| SETI@home \| Reporting 10 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU 18/09/2011 15:36:02 \| SETI@home \| [sched_op] CPU work request: 0.00 seconds; 0.00 CPUs 18/09/2011 15:36:02 \| SETI@home \| [sched_op] NVIDIA GPU work request: 119854.60 seconds; 0.00 GPUs I reckon this weekend goes down as 'revenge of the little guys'. That host is a 9800GT - as you see, it's teetering above and below the 0.02 DCF 'work fetch' cutoff value - I'm still clearing out some work assigned with stock estimates, VHAR drives DCF below 0.02, mid-AR takes it back above. In about 20 minutes, the optimised app APR kicks in, with tasks given twice the stock speed estimate. That'll do nicely, and I've got a good big run of shorties lined up (the best part of 200) - they'll be reporting, one or two every six minutes, all evening I reckon. That's why the "results returned per hour" is so high. Stock crunchers, and the people with lesser CUDA cards, are having a field-day with a download pipe mercifully clear of AP, and plenty of shorties between the VLARs.
	ID: 1153602 ·

Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 5059 Credit: 40,904,326 RAC: 52,754	Message 1153661 - Posted: 18 Sep 2011, 18:46:27 UTC - in response to Message 1153589.
	It´s not just the client problem. Even if you request work and it´s available, it´s not beeing assigned. It keeps just sending 0 or 1 even if you are drain. My problem isn't getting 1 or 2 for the GPU, it's getting any at all. Sometimes i get a couple, sometimes a dozen, sometimes a couple of dozen. But invariably they're all crunched before i can download anymore. "No tasks sent" is the usual message, but there are plenty of "Project has no tasks available" there as well. ____________ Grant Darwin NT.
	ID: 1153661 ·

Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 2079 Credit: 6,727,543 RAC: 4,709	Message 1153666 - Posted: 18 Sep 2011, 19:13:46 UTC - in response to Message 1153450.
	When BOINC asks for new work, the return message has been "no work available" for AP since last Tuesday. Either the estimated completion times for new AP work are so huge you can only get a couple at a time, or something got borked with the Scheduler when they put in the patch. The AP Raedy to Send buffer just continues to grow, as the Work in Progress gets less & less. I'm thinking this is probably the case. Does anyone with a nearly-empty 10+10 cache of AP-only get any new APs? I know the ETA would be astronomical, but if you can normally run through one in ~15 hours, surely you should be able to pick up at least one with a 480-hour work request, unless the ETA is up by 30x. If it's not that, then feeder is borked. ____________ Linux laptop uptime: 1484d 22h 42m Ended due to UPS failure, found 14 hours after the fact
	ID: 1153666 ·

soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6231 Credit: 27,516,513 RAC: 8,959	Message 1153680 - Posted: 18 Sep 2011, 20:11:46 UTC - in response to Message 1153553.
	It is on automatic, I have not messed with it. Machine is not having "too full" issues at all. Just getting measly amounts of work irregularly. I keep asking, server keeps saying 0. or 1. Occasional 30-40.. after it has gone completely dry again. I wasn't suggesting you had fiddled with it, I was just asking what it is. It could be that stopping BOINC, editting DCF to a realistic value, then re-starting BOINC might fix it. I'm not having a problem d/loading, not as many as normal agreed, but getting more than you. But that is due to the, now, publicised problem I am having with the AP APR. Because as soon as an AP task completes it punches my DCF up to 1.5 min. I see no flops entry in the app_info. ____________ Janice
	ID: 1153680 ·

Claggy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 3365 Credit: 25,951,744 RAC: 1,177	Message 1153721 - Posted: 18 Sep 2011, 23:37:54 UTC
	Uploads have dropped to Zero. Claggy
	ID: 1153721 ·

Kevin Olley Send message Joined: 3 Aug 99 Posts: 368 Credit: 33,617,923 RAC: 6,485	Message 1153722 - Posted: 18 Sep 2011, 23:39:57 UTC
	Uploads have stalled and server status page is not updating. ____________ Kevin
	ID: 1153722 ·

samten Send message Joined: 18 May 11 Posts: 221 Credit: 5,125,678 RAC: 6,312	Message 1153723 - Posted: 18 Sep 2011, 23:40:30 UTC - in response to Message 1153721.
	Aye. Uploads are nil. Cricket has plummeted. ____________
	ID: 1153723 ·

Robert Pick Send message Joined: 21 May 05 Posts: 11 Credit: 2,009,861 RAC: 1,219	Message 1153724 - Posted: 18 Sep 2011, 23:40:55 UTC
	Same here!!!!! ____________
	ID: 1153724 ·

Wembley Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Sep 09 Posts: 415 Credit: 879,818 RAC: 0	Message 1153726 - Posted: 18 Sep 2011, 23:48:29 UTC
	Yay! The upload server has died again! Which means my BOINC will soon stop requesting work because of the 2*numprocessors limit! ____________ Donate with your searches and online buys: http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/university-of-california-setihome
	ID: 1153726 ·

arkayn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 3089 Credit: 40,367,674 RAC: 66,176	Message 1153727 - Posted: 18 Sep 2011, 23:55:38 UTC - in response to Message 1153680.
	It is on automatic, I have not messed with it. Machine is not having "too full" issues at all. Just getting measly amounts of work irregularly. I keep asking, server keeps saying 0. or 1. Occasional 30-40.. after it has gone completely dry again. I wasn't suggesting you had fiddled with it, I was just asking what it is. It could be that stopping BOINC, editting DCF to a realistic value, then re-starting BOINC might fix it. I'm not having a problem d/loading, not as many as normal agreed, but getting more than you. But that is due to the, now, publicised problem I am having with the AP APR. Because as soon as an AP task completes it punches my DCF up to 1.5 min. I see no flops entry in the app_info. You will have to manually add the info. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=62293#1055179 Seems to be fairly close after I changed my DCF back to 1.000000 again. ____________
	ID: 1153727 ·

Iona Send message Joined: 12 Jul 07 Posts: 502 Credit: 2,283,386 RAC: 1,955	Message 1153728 - Posted: 18 Sep 2011, 23:59:45 UTC
	Is it time for that dreaded water-fowl to present itself? ____________ Don't take life too seriously, as you'll never come out of it alive!
	ID: 1153728 ·

W5DMG - Dave Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 155 Credit: 24,016,336 RAC: 32,820	Message 1153740 - Posted: 19 Sep 2011, 0:59:42 UTC - in response to Message 1153728.
	Uploads not working.. :(
	ID: 1153740 ·

Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 2079 Credit: 6,727,543 RAC: 4,709	Message 1153750 - Posted: 19 Sep 2011, 1:39:42 UTC
	Maybe uploads died because APs aren't being handed out and the storage got full? That's happened numerous times. Or did they go and put uploads and WU storage on separate volumes? I thought I remembered reading something about that. ____________ Linux laptop uptime: 1484d 22h 42m Ended due to UPS failure, found 14 hours after the fact
	ID: 1153750 ·

clive G1FYE Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 4 Nov 04 Posts: 1284 Credit: 14,945,062 RAC: 2,644	Message 1153751 - Posted: 19 Sep 2011, 1:48:09 UTC - in response to Message 1153728.
	Is it time for that dreaded water-fowl to present itself? If its the one i think you mean, our fowl watery fiend only comes out to play when the grass is green :¬) But i think our crickets have turned into locusts and there will be nothing green left before long, the uploads line seems to have crashed :¬(
	ID: 1153751 ·

msattler Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 34154 Credit: 344,634,401 RAC: 545,706	Message 1153765 - Posted: 19 Sep 2011, 3:32:36 UTC
	I am actually surprised it held as long as it did. Luckily tomorrow is Monday, and somebody should be in the lab to set things upright again.... Then we wait for the Boinc server code to be straightened out. ____________ ****** "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: 1153765 ·

Mike Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 19493 Credit: 21,170,984 RAC: 26,746	Message 1153776 - Posted: 19 Sep 2011, 4:06:47 UTC
	Astropuleses are turned off and the servers dont survive the weekend. I´m wondering....... ____________
	ID: 1153776 ·

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