Panic Mode On (78) Server Problems?

ok, now all may machines are empty ...what the heck are you guys doing?

turn the work back on! it's freezing in here :P

Mark Sattler posted an interesting theory yesterday. He wondered whether asking Synergy to run the Scheduler, several MB splitters, and several AP splitters all at the same time might have been too much, and caused the inital slowdown we saw after maintenance last week. Sounds plausible to me.

@Joe
Thanks for looking into it :-)
Am I right that there will not really be any serious harm as the tasks were given to other crunchers in the meantime?

Andy
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My notional list of "work in progress" has gone up from 1,500 to 2,100 in the last two hours.

Everything is getting set to NNT and staying there, until I see zero tasks ready to send AND the splitters disabled.

I was going to remark on the high number of error WUs for my i7 where I had a short time timeout and now my original wingman and my replacement have both had natural timeouts and it's been sent to two more hosts, but now I'm wondering if the first two hosts completed the work and have been unable to upload and report due to the server problems the last few days. (And if that's the case, they'll eventually report late and the WUs will end up stuck and take even longer to disappear off my error list.)

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Dave (N9JFE)
A look at one of your timed out task shows that it was sent to you with an "impossible" deadline, so you timed out, the same thing happened, at the same time to your wingman. The task was no sent out to two more crunchers, one of whom has reported, and the other is still "in progress". Since the task was delivered to you in September, and faulted on the same day it is pretty safe to say that task is not under the influence of the current server woes.

Well the Crickets aren't maxed out anymore, and I just made a scheduler contact and it took three seconds to acknowledge five completed APs. That's pretty quick.

Regarding having too many AP splitters going.. I've been wondering/asking for a while now if we can just knock it down to one AP splitter. If you load up 10 full tapes and let the splitters go as fast as they can, AP finishes all 10 tapes in usually around the same time as MB takes to get through 2-3. Maybe just slow AP down and limit the hindering effect it has on everything else?
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Linux laptop uptime: 1484d 22h 42m
Ended due to UPS failure, found 14 hours after the fact

The largest blind is who don´t want to see...

Hope i´m wrong...

(edit) 05/11/2012 22:33:08 SETI@home Message from server: This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress

A new limit?

Timeouts are back plus now I can't download tons of lost tasks I still have; when scheduler is finally successful, all I'm getting is limit reached message.
Looks like limits are ridiculous like they were before (50tasks/CPU) which means even my slowest hosts are going to make scheduler requests *endlessly*, never able to fill a 5 day cache, only compounding the scheduler overload problem...
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Timeouts are back plus now I can't download tons of lost tasks I still have; when scheduler is finally successful, all I'm getting is limit reached message.
Looks like limits are ridiculous like they were before (50tasks/CPU) which means even my slowest hosts are going to make scheduler requests *endlessly*, never able to fill a 5 day cache, only compounding the scheduler overload problem...