You have to pick a better password Jord! :).

Going to lengths to show Cruncher Pete I truly do not have database write options. :-D
Although this looks like a server needs a kick. What is it with the BOINC database servers that fall over all of a sudden?

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What is it with the BOINC database servers that fall over all of a sudden?

I think somebody's trying to prove that you can't do infrastructure without money. I haven't worked out who yet, though.

The BOINC User Wiki has the most spectacular message, I now see.

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Looks like there might be an issue with Validation & Assimilation of MB.
In the graphs the numbers are growing steadily with no signs of tapering off; and just had a look at my tasks (took a while for that page to eventually come up) & both the Validation Pending & Valid numbers are much higher than usual.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Looks like there might be an issue with Validation & Assimilation of MB.
In the graphs the numbers are growing steadily with no signs of tapering off; and just had a look at my tasks (took a while for that page to eventually come up) & both the Validation Pending & Valid numbers are much higher than usual.

My Pendings have been running 2-3 times Valid for about 3 weeks now. I'm guessing about 2/3 of those are going to "Time-Out" and be reissued.

What I noticed today is that I have Tasks that Validated on 29 and 30 July that are still on my Tasks page - should have been purged already. Or is it just because the Replica database is shown as "Offline"?

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Not all MB WUs are being Validated, so they can't be Assimilated. Both backlogs continue to grow.

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Grant
Darwin NT

MB Results Awaiting Validation have exceeded the number In Progress, and continues to grow. Since they're not being validated, the number of WU Awaiting Assimilation continues to grow.
Add to that, for that last 12 hours the Results Awaiting Deletion has started to climb, rapidly.
For the last 8 hours the number of AP results Awaiting Deletion has been growing, rapidly.
Add to that, for over 18 hours the Master Database Queries per Second has been 3 times the usual level. Usually it's around 1,000/s with a spike here or there for 15-20min. Lately it's been around 3,000/s with spikes over 5,000.


I think everything is about to fall over again.

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Grant
Darwin NT

What's the award for the lucky user who gets task number 2^32 - 1?

I asked a few days ago, but nobody cared. Now we are ~2 million tasks away from task 4294967295 and no plans yet.

I was under the understanding that when the project was down and started back up again on Wednesday morning this was to apply a fix to this issue

That is correct. That's what this week's quirks and general weirdness has been all about.. making the shift from 32-bit to 64-bit on key processes and variables.

But the questions is still the same as when I brought this subject up last week: I wonder who is going to get 2^32 - 1 or 2^32? I don't think any kind of recognition or reward is warranted, but it could at least be bragging rights or something. Unfortunately, the way things go, I have a strong feeling it's going to go to someone who never comes to the forums, or someone who trashes WUs, or one of those machines that gets a pile of tasks on the first and only-ever contact, and is never heard from again.

It looks like we have the winners now - Wiggo for 4294967295 and Adam Czarnecki for 42949672956.

woop woop

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I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap

I wanna see Wiggo's toaster

The other guy just got lucky haha 7k rac

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I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap

Well then. I don't mind being wrong about my prediction this time. At least it was somebody that participates on the forum frequently. He shall have bragging rights forever about being 2^32 - 1.


Also, good job, Richard, for predicting two weeks ago that it would be right around the end of the month. Okay, so it was very early on the 2nd, but that's pretty close.

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

Well then. I don't mind being wrong about my prediction this time. At least it was somebody that participates on the forum frequently. He shall have bragging rights forever about being 2^32 - 1.


Also, good job, Richard, for predicting two weeks ago that it would be right around the end of the month. Okay, so it was very early on the 2nd, but that's pretty close.

I think I hexed my own prediction by triggering all that code updating last week - we probably lost a couple of days of splitting. Without that, Murphy would have had his usual fun, with everything coming to a crashing halt just as they locked up the lab on Friday evening.

When will we hit 64?

2^64-1 = 18446744073709551615
If by that time we haven't found any signal by ETs, I doubt there are any out there, or they're not transmitting in the bandwidth we're searching in.

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2^64-1 = 18446744073709551615
If by that time we haven't found any signal by ETs, I doubt there are any out there, or they're not transmitting in the bandwidth we're searching in.

Matt made it "a million results a day for 6.3 billion years". But he forgot to factor in Moore's Law - we're already closer to two million results a day.

As I speak which to gets turned into text the results returned per hour is 64,009. I'm guessing there is a shortie storm at present?

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Still wonder how he gets to that number, for 18446744073709551616 / 365 / 1000000 = 50539024859, or 50.5 billion.

6300000000 * 365 * 1000000 = 2,299,500,000,000, which isn't anywhere near 2^64.
2^41 = 2,199,023,255,552, the nearest integer I can find.

Unless... I don't know what a billion is anymore. American billions not a thousand million, or 1,000,000,000? ;-)

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Matt (message 1169564) was basing his estimate on "our id space will max out at 2305843009213693952", which turns out to be 2^61. That's a factor of 8 down on your 50.5 billion years, which is near enough 6.3 billion years.

Maybe he thinks that we'll have a new form of maths which requires three separate sign bits by then?