Trust me .... it was down and unreachable. I used Is it down for just me

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

I see that in the mean time someone opened up a can of shorties for us. All work in cache has a deadline of 23 June, and runs for 4.3 minutes (on my AMD RX470).

Also got 29mr08ad.2356.7434.13.40 tasks that stick at 0.01% for minutes, even stay running when I exit BOINC. Eventually they'll reset and do a large spike count.
And 11oc08ab.24560.6207.3.30 tasks that stick at 0.02% for their whole duration until they err.

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Here's a handy link to verify it's actually S@H Site that is down

http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/setiathome.berkeley.edu.html

Quick and easy.

But then people wouldn't sat at their computers hitting the update button every 304 seconds FOR HOURS. Scribbling things down in a little notebook:

Update 1: Unsuccessful, maybe an internet hiccup
Update 27: Still no response, this is unaaceptable!
Update 178: *MASHING OF KEYBOARD* 4kSmJbckm&cWNCRG6ZzFy8nvfaw6GaGParqRE-*Y#*a#nTKuR@ucH=sJ$6JdC_%B I'M WELL ANGRY INNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lol :)

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Finally, I set my Preferences to no AP

I always do that when changing application settings.
"Run only the selected applications Seti@home v8" is the only one I never change.
APv7 & "If no work available for the selected application..." are the 2 I always change from whatever they are set on when the system stops getting work.

Change them both, save changes.
Update manager, give it a 2-3 automatic requests if it doesn't start getting work, then change the application settings back to what they were, save it, update the manger and then generally on the next request for work, it comes pouring down (if it didn't on the intial change of settings).

It has been particularly bad for the last day or so.


And as for the allocation of work- my faster system has got barely any GBT work, the slower one after getting nothing but Arecibo is now getting almost all GBT. The faster one then picked up a few GBT WUs, then it's back to all Arecibo, then the slower one started getting some Arecibo as well.
When the crap hits the fan, it's never distributed evenly.


BTW- anyone else notice those particularly chewy Arecibo WUs?
Took as long (or slightly longer) to crunch them than GBT WUs do.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Was it Jeff's fan control script or the Nvidia update that got you into trouble with Einstein?

. . It was the update. I hadn't run the fan control at that point. It was the restart that seemed to sort it out and I have done something wrong because the fan control still didn't run. So it is definitely blameless ...

Stephen

<shrug>

Have we had another database glitch with the last outage?
My Pendings & Valids have spike yet again (they didn't drop after the last spike), and appear to still be on their way up to new heights.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Have we had another database glitch with the last outage?
My Pendings & Valids have spike yet again (they didn't drop after the last spike), and appear to still be on their way up to new heights.

. . Something has happened because I was unable to access the web site at all last night, not the forums nor the home or accounts pages, Everything was offline for quite a while for some reason.

Stephen

??

Have we had another database glitch with the last outage?
My Pendings & Valids have spike yet again (they didn't drop after the last spike), and appear to still be on their way up to new heights.

. . Something has happened because I was unable to access the web site at all last night, not the forums nor the home or accounts pages, Everything was offline for quite a while for some reason.

Yes, but returning & getting and downloading work was unaffected.
A web site issue shouldn't result in database issues; unless one caused the other somehow.

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Grant
Darwin NT

The web server at least went down for sure, but it didn't effect uploads/downloads or reporting here.

Cheers.

The web server at least went down for sure, but it didn't effect uploads/downloads or reporting here.

Cheers.

. . Nope, they were unaffected for me as well. But I was wondering if whatever brought down the Web Server may have caused a hiccough in the other server operations as well. Since I suspect they are housed in the same environment.

Stephen

??

It does seem that funny things are happening in serverland ATM.

Warning: shell_exec(): Unable to execute '/home/boincadm/projects/sah/bin/mysql_connect_test carolyn' in /disks/carolyn/b/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/seti_boinc_html/sah_status.php on line 334 Warning: shell_exec(): Unable to execute '/home/boincadm/projects/sah/bin/paddym_connect_test' in /disks/carolyn/b/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/seti_boinc_html/sah_status.php on line 342 Warning: shell_exec(): Unable to execute '/home/boincadm/projects/sah/bin/marvin_connect_test' in /disks/carolyn/b/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/seti_boinc_html/sah_status.php on line 350 Warning: shell_exec(): Unable to execute '/home/boincadm/projects/sah/bin/apache_running_on_host synergy' in /disks/carolyn/b/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/seti_boinc_html/sah_status.php on line 369 Warning: shell_exec(): Unable to execute '/home/boincadm/projects/sah/bin/nginx_running_on_host georgem' in /disks/carolyn/b/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/seti_boinc_html/sah_status.php on line 386 

Getting some big slow downs here at times.

Cheers.

I would have to agree. It seems currently that that issue is sorted itself. Currently in the last hour over 112,000 results have been returned maybe this is because the server could not receive work or maybe we are in the mist of another shortie storm. On the bright side either way at least work is getting returned :)

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I would have to agree. It seems currently that that issue is sorted itself. Currently in the last hour over 112,000 results have been returned maybe this is because the server could not receive work or maybe we are in the mist of another shortie storm. On the bright side either way at least work is getting returned :)

Quite a few shorties.
And the percentage of GBT work has dropped off again, at least on my systems, so even without the shorties the amount returned per hour would increase quite a bit.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I would have to agree. It seems currently that that issue is sorted itself. Currently in the last hour over 112,000 results have been returned maybe this is because the server could not receive work or maybe we are in the mist of another shortie storm. On the bright side either way at least work is getting returned :)

Quite a few shorties.
And the percentage of GBT work has dropped off again, at least on my systems, so even without the shorties the amount returned per hour would increase quite a bit.

Yes I agree Grant it certainly does increase when that happens

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Quite a few shorties.
And the percentage of GBT work has dropped off again, at least on my systems, so even without the shorties the amount returned per hour would increase quite a bit.

. . Yep, same here.

Stephen

..

So have we run out of pfb work?

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SETI@home classic workunits 4,019
SETI@home classic CPU time 34,348 hours

So have we run out of pfb work?

Dunno. Sent a heads up to Eric and Jeff about 2 hours ago about the queue running dry.
But it's only close to 8AM in Berkeley now, and the weekend.
We shall see.

Meow.

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

Did I miss any news? SInce the last time servers were down for maintenance I am only getting 1 WU at a time although my settings are to download enough work for a whole day at once. Also there are periods where there is no communication with the project server at all, like now.

. . Well for what it's worth something seems to be stuck again, for the last 5 hours nothing but guppis and a handful of Arecibo VLARs.

Stephen

??

Nothing is stuck ATM, but there are no Arecibo files loaded to be split so we're in for a guppy flood.

Cheers.