An Actual Computer Bug (Apr 17 2007)

Author	Message
Francesco Forti Send message Joined: 24 May 00 Posts: 334 Credit: 204,421,005 RAC: 15	Message 548497 - Posted: 18 Apr 2007, 13:39:17 UTC - in response to Message 548494. My machines are stalled also both wintel and linux, with a spread of client versions. I'm running on cashed units and that ain't massive. Look out Einstien here I come! I have 146 upload / download stopped for http errors in 9 hosts inside my farm. Maybe a lot in the other hosts outside. Bye, Franz ID: 548497 ·

Greg Tingey Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 46 Credit: 3,954,059 RAC: 21	Message 548503 - Posted: 18 Apr 2007, 13:44:09 UTC Donwload/Upload still VERY flaky. I currently have SEVEN dn/uploads trying to work intermittently, at very low bit rates - or not at all. You sure there aren't more spiders/cockroaches/nematode worms stuck in there? ID: 548503 ·

champ Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 12 Mar 03 Posts: 3642 Credit: 1,489,147 RAC: 0	Message 548506 - Posted: 18 Apr 2007, 13:57:12 UTC Mmmmmmhhhhhhh, things like that are always happen after the outage. Remember last week! Double Mmmmmhhhhhh????? ID: 548506 ·

jason_gee Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 24 Nov 06 Posts: 7489 Credit: 91,093,184 RAC: 0	Message 548517 - Posted: 18 Apr 2007, 14:45:37 UTC - in response to Message 548506. Just a sudden memory flash today, I'm not sure if this means anything, but something twigged in my memory about Sun NFS mounts being lost back at school about 12 years ago. It was a small university Geographic information systems lab running SunSparcs, connected to the larger Uni network having larger Sun Servers etc... What was similar is that we used to have dropped mounts from time to time, possibly with similar frequency. I vaguely remember the problem being traced to two incompatible NFS versions in use. might be an easy thing to check? Jason "Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions. ID: 548517 ·

DFilipowski Send message Joined: 4 Mar 07 Posts: 2 Credit: 2,607 RAC: 0	Message 548518 - Posted: 18 Apr 2007, 14:47:52 UTC No go here as well. And I can't waste my computer with trying endlessly. So off going the Boinc. I'll check back - when I remember to. LOL. ID: 548518 ·

John McCallum Send message Joined: 5 Dec 04 Posts: 877 Credit: 599,458 RAC: 8	Message 548522 - Posted: 18 Apr 2007, 15:12:31 UTC - in response to Message 548494. My machines are stalled also both wintel and linux, with a spread of client versions. I'm running on cashed units and that ain't massive. Look out Einstien here I come! Einstien also had simmilar problems over the weekend until someone on the project went in on Sunday and gave the servers "a good talking to"lol. Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care ID: 548522 ·

BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0	Message 548573 - Posted: 18 Apr 2007, 16:36:44 UTC - in response to Message 548522. Indeed -- Einstein had what seems to be the same problem. My own approach (not sure if it has merit) when I see the 'uploading stalls' syndrome is to suspend the offending project (I've no workstation with less than 3 projects running) and then check back on the workstation. Eventually the upload clears (in anywhere from 6 to 48 hours). When the upload clears, I 'unsuspend' the offending project. Trying to 'force' the upload by pushing a retry rarely seems to work for me. My machines are stalled also both wintel and linux, with a spread of client versions. I'm running on cashed units and that ain't massive. Look out Einstien here I come! Einstien also had simmilar problems over the weekend until someone on the project went in on Sunday and gave the servers "a good talking to"lol. ID: 548573 ·

OzzFan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28	Message 548586 - Posted: 18 Apr 2007, 16:50:41 UTC - in response to Message 548518. No go here as well. And I can't waste my computer with trying endlessly. So off going the Boinc. I'll check back - when I remember to. LOL. I don't know if I'd call it a 'waste' of trying endlessly. The system worked very well up until a while ago (as far as uploads and downloads go). They will be up again, eventually (and I'm sure it won't be too long). ID: 548586 ·

1mp0Â£173 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0	Message 548595 - Posted: 18 Apr 2007, 17:08:01 UTC - in response to Message 548478. With all these UL/DL problems, I'm wondering: maybe the spider corpse or its web were connecting some vital circuit in the motherboard or the memory chip. :) Kidding aside, I once saw a TV news piece showing an entire ant colony took a computer as its new home, and the machine still worked! Regards, Wander I had an ant colony find its way through an unused mounting hole on my KVM switch. ID: 548595 ·

speedimic Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Sep 02 Posts: 362 Credit: 16,590,653 RAC: 0	Message 548674 - Posted: 18 Apr 2007, 19:13:31 UTC Thanks for puttin the spider back! UL/DL running fine now!!! mic. mic. ID: 548674 ·

Jim Baize Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 May 00 Posts: 758 Credit: 149,536 RAC: 0	Message 548691 - Posted: 18 Apr 2007, 19:41:30 UTC - in response to Message 548573. The thing is, why do you even worry about the project being problematic? BOINC was designed to be fault tolerant. BOINC works through these types of problems with little or no problem with no user intervention. Indeed -- Einstein had what seems to be the same problem. My own approach (not sure if it has merit) when I see the 'uploading stalls' syndrome is to suspend the offending project (I've no workstation with less than 3 projects running) and then check back on the workstation. Eventually the upload clears (in anywhere from 6 to 48 hours). When the upload clears, I 'unsuspend' the offending project. Trying to 'force' the upload by pushing a retry rarely seems to work for me. My machines are stalled also both wintel and linux, with a spread of client versions. I'm running on cashed units and that ain't massive. Look out Einstien here I come! Einstien also had simmilar problems over the weekend until someone on the project went in on Sunday and gave the servers "a good talking to"lol. ID: 548691 ·

Wander Saito Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Jul 03 Posts: 555 Credit: 2,136,061 RAC: 0	Message 548703 - Posted: 18 Apr 2007, 20:18:54 UTC - in response to Message 548674. Thanks for puttin the spider back! UL/DL running fine now!!! mic. LOL I think a relative of that old dead spider crawled back inside the server and spawned its web again :) The work is flowing again! Thanks guys. Regards, Wander ID: 548703 ·

Fuzzy Hollynoodles Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0	Message 552273 - Posted: 24 Apr 2007, 9:49:03 UTC - in response to Message 547966. ... I popped open one of the memory banks and found that, at some point, a spider had taken up residence inside. Not really a wise choice on its part. The webs and carcass of the long deceased critter were removed before putting the memory back. ... - Matt Beware of the black widows... "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me ID: 552273 ·

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