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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Well things here are business as usual with my 3 rigs bouncing on/off the limits still. Cheers. |
musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2430 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
Umm, it is up and running again. Great! |
ivan Send message Joined: 5 Mar 01 Posts: 783 Credit: 348,560,338 RAC: 223 |
I did just get one work request successfully through for my top rig by spending some quality time with my mouse and the retry button. To save having to monitor the Retry button I made up a little cron job and a wee awk script: crontab entry: * * * * * source /home/Compaq_Owner/retryfiles retryfiles: cd c: cd 'Program Files/BOINC' ./boinccmd.exe --get_file_transfers | gawk -f retry.awk Program Files\BOINC\retry.awk: /name/ { n = $2;} / xfer active: no/ { system("./boinccmd --file_transfer http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ " n " retry");} In other words, every minute cron runs retryfiles; retryfiles lists the files awaiting transfer and hands the results to retry.awk. The awk script stores the name of each file as the data passes through it, then if it sees that that file has an inactive transfer it spawns a system command to tell boinccmd to retry the transfer... The nice thing about doing it this way is that I only bother the Berkeley servers if I find a transfer that's in a wait-for-retry state. This is working well on my two main Windows/NVIDIA boxes; their tasks in progress are slowly rising whereas this morning they both had empty caches. The commands as given should work out-of-the-box with most Linux installations; for Windows you need to install cygwin and its cron service -- or other equivalent software. To run the script less often than every minute use */<n> as the first entry in the crontab line, where <n> is however many minutes you want to delay between instances, e.g. */5 for every fifth minute. |
Kevin Olley Send message Joined: 3 Aug 99 Posts: 906 Credit: 261,085,289 RAC: 572 |
Snip. This may be useful to some, a little basic to others, but its way above my head, mouse clicking is about my limit:-) Kevin |
ivan Send message Joined: 5 Mar 01 Posts: 783 Credit: 348,560,338 RAC: 223 |
Each to his own, Kev. You know I need to understand this sort of thing for my job; the beauty of computers is that they can relieve us of button-clicking duty, they never get tired. So ultimately a little bit of time spent learning something like awk (or python, or perl if you want even more capability) _can_ pay you back in added flexibility. But it's not compulsory... Cheers, mate! |
Kevin Olley Send message Joined: 3 Aug 99 Posts: 906 Credit: 261,085,289 RAC: 572 |
I am just a lorry driver by trade, yes they are sneeking into the cabs, there is even a bunch of electronics between my right foot and the engine now but the thing I have to worry about is whats on the dash (ie: call out tow truck). I only dabble with computers for pleasure and due to other commitments time is in very short supply, If or when I can find the time increasing my capabilities with a computer is on my to do list. Kevin |
Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13 |
My APs upload first try every time one finishes. Scheduler requests go through every time, but about 99.5% of the time respond with "no tasks available" or "your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of Seti@Home Enhanced." On the rare occasion that I do get issued an AP, it instant-fails 1-10 times and then finally goes through. I haven't hit any buttons in at least a month. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13727 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Take a look at Scarecrow's graphs. A surge as the backlog of uploads goes through is to be expected- but for it to be sustained at over 110,000 for several hours. Talk about a hammering. Grant Darwin NT |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13727 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
And it would appear it was too much for too long- the uploads are backing up yet again. EDIT- they have finally cleaered, but the inbound traffic is looking jagged again. Not a good sign. Grant Darwin NT |
Dimly Lit Lightbulb 😀 Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 15399 Credit: 7,423,413 RAC: 1 |
One, and a third of an astropulse left to go. I'm starting to panic a bit. Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club. |
Terror Australis Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 1817 Credit: 262,693,308 RAC: 44 |
Oops, Looks like uploads have gone MGD again. All my rigs are now in "project backoff" for uploads and all have been getting "No Tasks Available" when asking for work for some hours. And it's now just after knock off time in Berkeley so there will be no-one there to apply the rubber hammer. :P EDIT: Looks like I was wrong about the rubber hammer, about 15 minutes after I posted, all uploads cleared at good speed. T.A. |
Amauri Send message Joined: 18 May 08 Posts: 26 Credit: 1,107,140 RAC: 0 |
To save having to monitor the Retry button I made up a little cron job and a wee awk script: Great job, Ivan, thank you! |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13727 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Once again, uploads accumulate. Grant Darwin NT |
MikeN Send message Joined: 24 Jan 11 Posts: 319 Credit: 64,719,409 RAC: 85 |
Cricket graph has just base lined for uploads and downloads. Thats probably that until after the weekly outage. |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6652 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
I'm still dreaming of the day when my GPU's don't run dry 2-3 times a week. Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22186 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
And as we speak the Crickets are coming back to life - well maybe.... Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
As I have so many machines I have been doing something similar. Except I am using a For loop and I have 1 machine do this for all of my machines over the network. I do see an occasional 'authorization failure' when it is retrying files, but doesn't seem to effect anything. Then on the next hourly pass I may not see any. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
MikeN Send message Joined: 24 Jan 11 Posts: 319 Credit: 64,719,409 RAC: 85 |
And as we speak the Crickets are coming back to life - well maybe.... Those crickets are a law unto themselves (not that I am complaining about another hour or so to fill up before the outage). |
john3760 Send message Joined: 9 Feb 11 Posts: 334 Credit: 3,400,979 RAC: 0 |
i went out for a bit and had 750 WUs dumped on me .i only have 1 computer so i will appologise to my wingmen beforehand and try to get through them as quickly as possible. john3760 |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
i went out for a bit and had 750 WUs dumped on me .i only have 1 computer so i will appologise to my wingmen beforehand and try to get through them as quickly as possible. Wish I had such luck.... The way it's been working here, my top rig runs out of Seti due to repeated 'no work' responses and just a handful of issued tasks. It has a 0% share on Einstein, so when the GPU runs dry on Seti, it picks up several hours of Einstein work and persistently keeps trying to get work from Seti while that is being crunched. It manages to get something built up and goes back to it when the Einstein is done and then repeats the cycle. Of course, with today's outage coming up, it's gonna be doing Einstein for the next 12 hours or more. Only the slower hosts on the project could stay supplied with Seti work the way things are going right now. The servers have actually held up reasonably well considering the shorty pounding...if we could get a day or two with some datasets split that did not contain 95% VHAR we might be able to get a leg up on things. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
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