All uploads are going into "pending" though, my RAC hasn't changed since early afternoon on Monday. ;-)

Uploads always go "in to pending". It's not until they have been validated that you will get credit.
Given the length & severity of this outage, I expect it will take several hours at least before the validators will start to even put a dent in pendings. And as things stand at present- all the MB validators are offline.
Also, while the "Fix AP assimilator is running", the AP assimilators aren't. So that will result in some congestion as well.

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Grant
Darwin NT

It looks like that 28mr11ab is stuck again splitting AP's, but at least this time it's only got 3 splitters tied up.

Other than that, my caches are filling nicely.

Cheers.

It looks like that 28mr11ab is stuck again splitting AP's, but at least this time it's only got 3 splitters tied up.

I'm thinking there may be a stuck MB tape or 2 as well. WUs are being pumped out at a very good rate, 35/s although with the extra splitter 40-45 wasn't unusual.

But it shows just how great the demand is- when the system came back to life there were 500,000 WUs ready-to-send, it's now down to 100,000 & still falling like a stone- even with the 35 WU/s being split; usually 30/s is enough to supply the demand for work & re-fill the ready-to-send buffer.

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Grant
Darwin NT

1 rig is full again and the other isn't far off.

Cheers.

Uploads started flowing before anything else did. So you may have been able to upload everything and try to report, only to still get a "down for maintenance" message. (In the case of Beta, my phone finally uploaded the two tasks it had, but still can't report them, and the web site is still down.)

The Cricket graph shows the predictable spike, but it has ramped down and most people should not have server-caused problems now (IMHO).

I hope Beta comes back before my phone finishes the two Einsteins it's working on. I figure they've got about 2 to 2.5 hours of run time to go (which they won't get all at once).

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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.

Uploads started flowing before anything else did. So you may have been able to upload everything and try to report, only to still get a "down for maintenance" message. (In the case of Beta, my phone finally uploaded the two tasks it had, but still can't report them, and the web site is still down.)

The Cricket graph shows the predictable spike, but it has ramped down and most people should not have server-caused problems now (IMHO).

I hope Beta comes back before my phone finishes the two Einsteins it's working on. I figure they've got about 2 to 2.5 hours of run time to go (which they won't get all at once).

I'm actually finding that new work is flowing more freely than it has been doing for the last few days - although I haven't been watching closely, I don't think there have been any cases of 'project has no tasks available' when I've asked for work (MB only - AP has different problems, as we all know).

They've also re-started the validators which were shut down this morning, and already got through more than half the backlog (down to 400K tasks waiting, from a peak of 850K). Altogther, a good day's work.

Still no Beta. Does it all run on bruno?

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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.

Still no Beta. Does it all run on bruno?

I'm not sure which servers Beta uses. But, it's not the first time that after a full day of getting main working, they forget or run out of time to get Beta operational again.
EDIT:
They did note that not everything on Bruno was working.

Upload Server Problem
Our upload server (bruno) is currently unstable. We are working to fix the problem. UPDATE: uploads are now working although some bruno based services are still off. 5 Nov 2014, 3:24:51 UTC

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Boinc V7.2.42
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470

Just re-enabled network activity after suspending it yesterday, & all uploads went through at 1st attempt. Also got downloads no problem.

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They've also re-started the validators which were shut down this morning, and already got through more than half the backlog (down to 400K tasks waiting, from a peak of 850K). Altogther, a good day's work.

The sah_validate processes for v7 have been moved from bruno to synergy, so somewhat more than just restarting. Down to 170 WUs waiting for validation as of 19:00:06 UTC.

                                                                   Joe

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They've also re-started the validators which were shut down this morning, and already got through more than half the backlog (down to 400K tasks waiting, from a peak of 850K). Altogther, a good day's work.

The sah_validate processes for v7 have been moved from bruno to synergy, so somewhat more than just restarting. Down to 170 WUs waiting for validation as of 19:00:06 UTC.

                                                                   Joe

Well now its a case of finding another server to replace Bruno and or act as a standby in case of future problems.
I cant see the team wanting to have to swap processes from server to server repeatedly.

And AFAIK Bruno is an old device that's made up of bits of even older components from scrapped servers.

Maybe there's another whip round due.

Regards,

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Cliff,
Been there, Done that, Still no damm T shirt!

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They've also re-started the validators which were shut down this morning, and already got through more than half the backlog (down to 400K tasks waiting, from a peak of 850K). Altogther, a good day's work.

The sah_validate processes for v7 have been moved from bruno to synergy, so somewhat more than just restarting. Down to 170 WUs waiting for validation as of 19:00:06 UTC.

                                                                   Joe

Perhaps it is nearing time to retire bruno.
I imagine setting up a new box & taking it down to the colo is on the guys list of favorite things to do.

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SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours
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Perhaps it is nearing time to retire bruno.

Maybe replacement could be Muarae? #1 is running web-pages, #3 is "running" (disabled) ntpckr and rfi. One is running (maybe) Eric's GALFA -project.

What about rest of this "donated box - a 3U monster" as Matt calls it?

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"Please keep Your signature under four lines so Internet traffic doesn't go up too much"

- In 1992 when I had my first e-mail address -

I think the AP splitters are just sucking air. Four AP files started now, and it doesn't seem as if any WU's are created.

Having 28mr11ab stuck again, doesn't help either.

End of whining for now :-)

A couple of those files have been loaded for hours, yet they are still showing (1)
Still no AstroPulse Spike on the Cricket
Only a few resends have made it to my machines all day...

Perhaps it is nearing time to retire bruno.
I imagine setting up a new box & taking it down to the colo is on the guys list of favorite things to do.

8GB of RAM seems rather meager compared to all the rest of the servers. Perhaps it got tired of running as many processes as it was.

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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.

Still no Beta.

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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.

Perhaps it is nearing time to retire bruno.

Maybe replacement could be Muarae? #1 is running web-pages, #3 is "running" (disabled) ntpckr and rfi. One is running (maybe) Eric's GALFA -project.

What about rest of this "donated box - a 3U monster" as Matt calls it?

Hopefully they finished debating how to utilize that box fully long ago.
If required I'm sure a fundraiser to get a new system could be thrown together.

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SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours
Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[

Perhaps it is nearing time to retire bruno.
I imagine setting up a new box & taking it down to the colo is on the guys list of favorite things to do.

8GB of RAM seems rather meager compared to all the rest of the servers. Perhaps it got tired of running as many processes as it was.

I suspect that's the specs for the original bruno, a frankenstein machine built up from a motherboard and CPUs donated by Intel, with case, RAM, interface to an existing storage array and such added to make it useful. IIRC that did not recover after a power outage, and there were so many processes on it they decided to keep the name when they substituted another system.

                                                                   Joe

I want Beta!

My phone is going to finish its current pair of Einsteins in the next 20 minutes or so. It would be really nice if it could get Betas to work on instead.

(Okay, I'll stop whining now.)

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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 want Beta!

My phone is going to finish its current pair of Einsteins in the next 20 minutes or so. It would be really nice if it could get Betas to work on instead.

(Okay, I'll stop whining now.)

Here is the Beta SSP David if you're interested.

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/status.php

Cheers.