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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13722 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Might be something with the new pfb splitting thingy, although I think it was Richard that expressed the opinion he thought they might be a little faster than the old splitters.....hmmmmmm. I saw that mentioned, but so far they've proved to be about half the speed of the previous ones. 3/4 speed if they're really flying. They're definately borked. Grant Darwin NT |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Might be something with the new pfb splitting thingy, although I think it was Richard that expressed the opinion he thought they might be a little faster than the old splitters.....hmmmmmm. Well, I got to get some sleeps now with the kitties. I suspect they shall get up and paw the keyboard once in a while to keep things in order whilst I sleep. And shall keep the lights on for any wayward WUs that need to find a good home. All WUs are welcome to the kitty crunching farm. Meow, and good night. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Keith White Send message Joined: 29 May 99 Posts: 392 Credit: 13,035,233 RAC: 22 |
It's interesting that 30 units/s creation rate isn't enough, at least during a shorty storm. The reason I was talking about a shorty storm was I had drained my queues to update BOINC and move from r390 to r1817 (my 3 cores pretty well match my low end GPU in performance so they were fairly close to running out at the same time) and when I turned off NNT I only got shorties for my CPU and the few GPU units I got were actually a mix but leaned toward shorties as well. Edit: and once again without fail, the lack of GPU units get resolved as I'm writing about it. Woo Hoo. I finally have full queues again. "Life is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh." - The Doctor |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13722 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Splitters still not keeping up. Grant Darwin NT |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
The kitties shall just have to sniff and scratch and claw for all the WUs they can find for the crunchers today whilst I am at work. They are usually pretty good at sniffing out Seti work. Cache down about 330 from maximum right now across all 9 rigs, so they'll have to work at it. But, it would be great if da boyz in da lab could commission one more of those neat pfb splitter jobs on the servers! "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Gatekeeper Send message Joined: 14 Jul 04 Posts: 887 Credit: 176,479,616 RAC: 0 |
Just within the last hour have I finally been able to top off my allocation on all three rigs. Looks like the shortie storm is at least temporarily over. |
Kevin Benfield Send message Joined: 29 Dec 03 Posts: 39 Credit: 30,085,439 RAC: 0 |
For some reason, I do have not been able to get any new units for most of the day, completely out of units to crunch as well, tried the usual kick to try and get things going but nothing :( |
Gatekeeper Send message Joined: 14 Jul 04 Posts: 887 Credit: 176,479,616 RAC: 0 |
For some reason, I do have not been able to get any new units for most of the day, completely out of units to crunch as well, tried the usual kick to try and get things going but nothing :( And, as is usually the case, 25 minutes after you posted, one of your rigs got work. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13722 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Splitters still unable to build a ready-to-send buffer. Grant Darwin NT |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
On 8 April 2013, as we came back up after the move to the Colocation Facility, Matt wrote this (emphasis mine):
I wonder if this is one of the throttles he's mentioned, to slow down the MB/pfb splitters so we don't overwhelm the result storage server and/or run out of data.... Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13722 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
On 8 April 2013, as we came back up after the move to the Colocation Facility, Matt wrote this (emphasis mine): Possibly, although the problem continues even when there aren't tonnes of shorties going through the system. Prior to the move & the change of splitter type it wasn't an issue. Grant Darwin NT |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
The blue line on the cricket graph is certainly interesting for the last 18 or 19 hours. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
The blue line on the cricket graph is certainly interesting for the last 18 or 19 hours. More datasets being transferred from the lab to the colo in preparation for splitting, I suspect. God bless the new bandwidth, eh? "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
The blue line on the cricket graph is certainly interesting for the last 18 or 19 hours. I hope so, with only about 300 MBs ready to send. God bless the new bandwidth, eh? Yup. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
The blue line on the cricket graph is certainly interesting for the last 18 or 19 hours. That's a problem with the splitting rate, not the amount of data waiting to be split. There is plenty of data awaiting splitting right now. We need another pfb splitter online. Unless the powers that be are deliberately holding back to spare the bandwidth or database a bit. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
The blue line on the cricket graph is certainly interesting for the last 18 or 19 hours. With the comments about not wanting to be too big a data hog, the limits on total units, the comment that we are going through the data faster than they are collecting it, I would think the conclusion is they are holding back on purpose. Face it, there are more crunchers than there is Seti data. This is a good thing. Now how do we convince more of them to say join the 84+ cents a month club so that ntpckr development can continue? |
ExchangeMan Send message Joined: 9 Jan 00 Posts: 115 Credit: 157,719,104 RAC: 0 |
The blue line on the cricket graph is certainly interesting for the last 18 or 19 hours. If they are holding back data, then they need to let us know this explicitly. It's a lot harder to get work units now compared to last week, but I'm making the assumption that this is temporary and we will return to a somwhat normal condition in a little while. If this is not going to be the case, I just want to know. |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
If they are holding back data, then they need to let us know this explicitly. It's a lot harder to get work units now compared to last week, but I'm making the assumption that this is temporary and we will return to a somwhat normal condition in a little while. If this is not going to be the case, I just want to know. You have been with this project a long while so surely you realise by now that "project communication" is at best sparse. Someone, probably Matt, will eventually let us know what has been going on. I suggest just waiting a while, I am sure all will be revealed when the team have time. |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
If they are holding back data, then they need to let us know this explicitly. It's a lot harder to get work units now compared to last week, but I'm making the assumption that this is temporary and we will return to a somwhat normal condition in a little while. If this is not going to be the case, I just want to know. This post from Matt seems pretty explicit to me ... On 8 April 2013, as we came back up after the move to the Colocation Facility, Matt wrote this (emphasis mine): Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13722 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
This post from Matt seems pretty explicit to me ... However that post was on March 8, the problems we're having occured about a week, week and a half after that. If it is related to that post, it would be nice to have confirmation, as things were running OK with a ready-to-send buffer. Grant Darwin NT |
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