Panic Mode On (77) Server Problems?

Very difficult to report here, and the more tasks to report the more difficult it is. When I did manage to report, the only new WUs I got were shorties. Combination of APs and shorties makes for a perfect storm and everything grinds to a halt.
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Starting to get a bunch of APs allocated to me. Download speeds increased by a factor of 10 for me sometime today to mid-20KB/sec range. Getting a lot of "resent lost task" to go with all of the "timeout was reached" messages.



Unrelated, but involves my crunchers.. Both of my UPSes (APC 1300, Tripp-Lite 1400) on my desk simultaneously died this morning at 0730utc. I woke up because all of the fan hum stopped (two rigs and a rack-mount 24-port gigabit switch), and there was a 60dB 2.5kHz tone coming from one of them. That was fun to deal with. Now I need 172Ah worth of 12v batteries to get all five of my units (7800VA in total) back up and running. Looks like it's going to cost about US$550. Or.. I can get an APC 3000VA 3U rackmount unit with new batteries on eBay for $550 + shipping. Decisions, decisions. I think I might go for getting the APC 2200 up and running to replace the two that were on the desk.
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Linux laptop uptime: 1484d 22h 42m
Ended due to UPS failure, found 14 hours after the fact

By installing a 7.xx client, setting a max report of 10 tasks in my cc_config file and setting No New Tasks. I find I can reliably report.

A report of 10 tasks was the most I could go, 15 or 20 timed out.

With nearly a thousand task to report, it's gonna be a Looooong day :-)

T.A.

If you have set NNT you don't have to wait the 5 minutes for another "hit".

I don't know what happened during the day today, but I come home and the task list on my account page insists I have 2270 tasks in progress.

There are actually 431 in my cache. Hmm.

Dear Sutaru Tsureku,

I did what you suggested and set my download to no new tasks and then waited five minutes or so. Then I "abused my Update button" by pressing it, but only once. I used to really hit the darned thing so often, but I'm getting more subtle and not "using that hammer" all the time. A few minutes later, all of my 50 or so built up completed tasks had been swallowed up. I moved from this desktop with one Nvidia Ti 550 graphics card to my new notebook and did the same thing. Again in just a few minutes my 40 or so completed tasks were swallowed. I went downstairs to my i7 2600k desktop with two Nvidia Ti 550 graphics cards and it had swallowed all its completed tasks -- probably 70-80 of them. I am feeling a great sense of relief like you have helped me find a wonderful brand of computer laxative. Wow, Thanks for reminding me of this wonderful inexpensive procedure. I am breaking out in song,"Oh What A Relief IT IS -- la la la la la.... la la. Hurray." I hope this is not too racy. It's in the same fine tradition found in the writings of the esteemed 16th Century author Francois Rabelais, a scholar and humorist who penned the tales of Gargantua and Pantagruel. French literature including Rabelais and Michel de Montaigne was one of my very favorite college courses.

Brother Frank

While at work today not once were either of my systems able to report any work.
Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached is the only response they get.

And naturally their caches continue to shrink.
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Grant
Darwin NT.

After several timeouts, found that I had downloaded 16 wu's. However, on looking at My computers page, found that I had 119 wu's, but 103 marked "abandoned"?

As someone pointed out, and for me, it appears that the workunits we've uploaded are being processed and credited, just the notification of that to clear all the workunits listed as "ready to report" off of the task tab as well as fetching any new workunits.

Of course you know what this means. When the blockage is finally fixed we will be getting a metric ton of new workunits all with the same timestamp and likely paired with the same wingman or two. And if history is any indication there is a high likelihood that the wingman will be someone whose a) cuda application always overflow thus leading to a inconclusive validation; b) has a 29.9 day turn around time; or C) forgot they signed up for Seti@Home and all the tasks timeout after six or so weeks.

No, I'm not cynical. Not at all. :p
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