Panic Mode On (80) Server Problems?

Bad kitty juju here.......
Some time last night there was a power glitch, and EVERYTHING reset.
Most of the rigs restarted OK, but a couple of them hung, including the Frozen One, who's compressor does not appreciate being restarted like that.
Or the freaking modem and router, who apparently cannot come back up without a few restarts by the kitty paws.
Not a great good welcome morning here.
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"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.

I'm concern that they haven't powered down for the scheduled electrical work. I'm concerned because I could see that the staff was told the work was delayed but sometime today someone else will simply cut the power, leading to a mess that'll take days to restore.

The fact that Matt has sent out a message saying that the outage has been cancelled indicates that the outage for the repairs to the SSL-wide power systems has been cancelled for this weekend, and that the whole of the SSL will be breathing a communal sigh of relief. One of two things has happened - the uni has not been able to undertake the repairs this weekend for whatever reason, or the uni has found a way to conduct the repairs without shutting down the whole of the SSL. I suspect the former is the more probable, so there will be a planned outage for the work to be done, and there will be notice of it being done so the whole lab can prepared for it.

(We are looking forward to version four of a similar outage where I work.)
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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

The fact that Matt has sent out a message saying that the outage has been cancelled indicates that the outage for the repairs to the SSL-wide power systems has been cancelled for this weekend, and that the whole of the SSL will be breathing a communal sigh of relief. One of two things has happened - the uni has not been able to undertake the repairs this weekend for whatever reason, or the uni has found a way to conduct the repairs without shutting down the whole of the SSL. I suspect the former is the more probable, so there will be a planned outage for the work to be done, and there will be notice of it being done so the whole lab can prepared for it.

(We are looking forward to version four of a similar outage where I work.)

Looks like there can be some outage on Monday, though.
IST Service Status writes:

Scheduled Outage Space Sciences Laboratory

Outage Type: SCHEDULED OUTAGE
Date Submitted: Monday, January 7, 2013
Outage Start/End Time: 0630 – 0700
Groups Impacted: Space Sciences Laboratory
Equipment: sut1ds, sslringsut1fes

Description: Users on the PPCS-SSL-net_169.229.155.240/29 subnet will be without network connectivity while a switchport is reconfigured.

But perhaps that it only affects the forums, and not the data carrier.

Only half an hour allotted, and before normal working hours at Berkeley - should be minimal impact on us, probably just the forums and front page.

This is an ITS outage, not a power outage, and it only affects (one of) the out of building switches, so the servers will be able to carry on, but there may be no out of building connectivity depending on which switch they are working on and how that switch is being reconfigured.
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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

which switch they are working on and how that switch is being reconfigured.

Just now downloads are back to their normal - about as fast as a snail with arthritis moving across coarse glass paper...

Unlike when there were 4,000,000 awaiting download when I couldn't get any, but downloads were fast.

I just wonder if they were trying to see what happens if you overfill the tanks, and at what point the downloads "work well". Keep going down, its a long way below the current level.
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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Just now downloads are back to their normal - about as fast as a snail with arthritis moving across coarse glass paper...

Just now downloads are back to their normal - about as fast as a snail with arthritis moving across coarse glass paper...

I notice this morning that my pc 6738288 has marked around 100 tasks as abandoned. What caused this and is there anything I need to do? It hasn't abandoned anymore in the past 6-7 hours and appears to be working. Boinc tasks is reporting about 200 tasks on the pc but the web site reports about 120.

thanks...Frank