It seems that the server/s was just given a kick as the downloads suddenly spiked over 250M.

Cheers.

Scheduler response = faster. Downloads and uploads back to good speeds. Cricket is showing change. Matt's probably still tinkering with settings, etc.

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Another Fred
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Scheduler response = faster. Downloads and uploads back to good speeds. Cricket is showing change. Matt's probably still tinkering with settings, etc.

That's my conclusion too. The crickets dropped to around 50, then suddenly spiked at nearly 294.

Everybody should sit back patiently and wait to see what happens. Matt will probably be tweaking the settings for a couple of weeks, at least.

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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.

I'd say, tinkering with a new toy.

From the new Cricket:

Cur: 271.65 Mbits/sec

And it's a wonder to behold.

Richard...
Did you determine yet if the server addys changed or stayed the same?
Are any warnings to those with hosts files active needed?

Meow?

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I'd say, tinkering with a new toy.

From the new Cricket:

Cur: 271.65 Mbits/sec

And it's a wonder to behold.

Richard...
Did you determine yet if the server addys changed or stayed the same?
Are any warnings to those with hosts files active needed?

Meow?

I would say they remained the same as I can still reach all 3 of the download/upload server IP addresses.

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I'd say, tinkering with a new toy.

From the new Cricket:

Cur: 271.65 Mbits/sec

And it's a wonder to behold.

Richard...
Did you determine yet if the server addys changed or stayed the same?
Are any warnings to those with hosts files active needed?

Meow?

I would say they remained the same as I can still reach all 3 of the download/upload server IP addresses.

Great.
I don't use hosts files or track such thingys, but Richard had raised the question before the big move, and I had not found any comment on it since.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Great.
I don't use hosts files or track such thingys, but Richard had raised the question before the big move, and I had not found any comment on it since.

I've got mine set to use just the one download server.
Given how things are at the moment i'm almost tempted to allow it to use both servers again.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Great.
I don't use hosts files or track such thingys, but Richard had raised the question before the big move, and I had not found any comment on it since.

I've got mine set to use just the one download server.
Given how things are at the moment i'm almost tempted to allow it to use both servers again.

Please...do open it up.
And report what you find out.
I just run things fast and loose here.
Boinc and the kitties are on their own most of the time.....

It's rather hard for me to implement 'fixes' when I have 9 rigs running.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I had an entry to use only GeorgeM, but I took it out during the downtime as a precaution. I'm gettting good speeds on all downloads using both d/l servers. Easy enough to put back in if I ever see a difference.

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Whoa....like, WOW man.
I am just, like, adoring the dudeliness of the Crickets, man.
Like, wow, I have never seen such Cricketness.

Right up there next to the dude, man.

LOL....dudes.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I cant believe how fast downloads are. I saw one at 141 Kbps. WOW

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Old James

I cant believe how fast downloads are. I saw one at 141 Kbps. WOW

I watched one AP download start out slow. And then faster, and faster, and faster....well over 250Kbps.......

Kitties are diggin' it.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

One of my APs that downloaded last night started off at about 200KB/sec and I watched it go into the 1500KB/sec range during the last second.

I am noticing the trend forming on the Crickets.. even though the old 100mbit link was saturated, at least with the limits that are in place, we were actually pretty close to being balanced, as far as demand vs. capacity is concerned anyway.

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Linux laptop:
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Most links work best when they are running at something below their maximum, typically 80-90%, much beyond 90% and the slightest problem will result in a snowballing of errors and retries at that level. Now there is a much bigger link bandwidth available it is easy to see that S@H was running very close to the limits, so any small bump became a problem, so reducing the effective bandwidth.

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Most links work best when they are running at something below their maximum, typically 80-90%, much beyond 90% and the slightest problem will result in a snowballing of errors and retries at that level.

From memory, i think Ned Ludd said 80% of maximum was the absolute maximum you wanted to run a network connection at. It gives you headroom for busy periods. If you're at or over 80% most of the time, then you need more bandwidth.

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Grant
Darwin NT

The AP ready-to-send has dropped right down- work is still being split & taken as it's being split- and there are a lot of MB shorties around at the moment.
Network traffic has been around 180-190Mb/s for the last few hours.

So it looks like we've been making do with about only half of the bandwidth we needed for the last few years.
Amazing we were able to keep our systems busy at all.

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Grant
Darwin NT

An astropulse downloading in seconds? I had to check my internet cable hadn't set on fire :)

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Result creation rate has dropped away (3 of the splitters aren't running), and the number of MB ready-to-send has also dropped slightly.
Hopefully once the shorties pass through it'll be able to recover.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Scheduler appears to be having issues again.
No problems for several hours, then for several requests for work (while reporting work done) it says i've reached the limits. After 3-10 requests it suddenly decides i haven't reached my limit & gives out a whole bunch in one hit. And throw in the odd "No tasks sent" or "Project ha no tasks available" message.

6/04/2013 17:12:24 SETI@home Reporting 1 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for GPU
6/04/2013 17:12:30 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
6/04/2013 17:12:30 SETI@home Message from server: No tasks sent
6/04/2013 17:12:30 SETI@home Message from server: No tasks are available for SETI@home Enhanced
6/04/2013 17:12:30 SETI@home Message from server: This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress
6/04/2013 17:12:30 SETI@home Message from server: Project has no tasks available


6/04/2013 17:48:24 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
6/04/2013 17:48:24 SETI@home Reporting 3 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU
6/04/2013 17:48:28 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
6/04/2013 17:48:28 SETI@home Message from server: No tasks sent
6/04/2013 17:48:28 SETI@home Message from server: Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of AstroPulse v6.
6/04/2013 17:48:28 SETI@home Message from server: This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress

And then all of a sudden, i haven't reached the lmits...

6/04/2013 17:53:32 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
6/04/2013 17:53:32 SETI@home Reporting 2 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU
6/04/2013 17:53:36 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 7 new tasks

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Grant
Darwin NT

Well this is a sad day for my cruncher... my awesome monitor finally died.. I think.

[back story.. may skip if you don't want to read it]

It is a Compaq P1100: 21" Trinitron CRT. I've had it for a little over six years, and it has been running 1600x1200@85Hz about 18 hours/day until about six months ago..where it has been 24/7. See.. two winters ago, one morning it took the normal 8-10 seconds to go from stand-by to having a visible picture, but the next morning, it took about 100 seconds. I figured it was just because it was really cold that morning (somewhere around 55F...indoors), but as the weather warmed up, this trend continued.

After a little over a year of that, I bumped the mouse to wake it up and it made a screech sound, then the relay inside clicked about a dozen times, and the green light went back to orange..flashing an error code. Unplugged it, plugged it back in, and it screeched again, but stayed green and didn't click a bunch of times. Changed the power profiles to never shut the monitor off, but every now and then, some application/Windows Update will change it back to 20 minutes. If I catch it fast enough and it is still warm, it usually comes back on without issues.

One day I wasn't so lucky, and ended up having to power cycle it a dozen or so times and it finally stayed on, and has been on for a little over 3 solid months. Tonight, something changed the power profile again, and I was in the other room for a couple hours and came back to find it off. Gave up power cycling it after ~50 times and just decided it is dead. Using a 32" 720p TV now. I sure do miss 1200 pixels of height though...

In the past, I had another great monitor that suffered a connection issue on the back panel and I went all Office Space on it and dropped it off the roof, then found out through some Googling a few hours later that if I had opened it up, 5 minutes with a soldering iron would have fixed it. Oh well. I'm going to try opening this one up in the next day or two and see if it is just a capacitor or 10 that I can replace. If not.. an ASUS VS247H-P is next on the agenda, and I'll probably get a swing-arm wall-mount kit for it, too. Maybe not. My desk is pretty sturdy, but I'll have to see just how top-heavy it really is.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)