Takin' Care of Business and Workin' Overtime (May 11 2007)

Author	Message
Fuzzy Hollynoodles Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0	Message 566128 - Posted: 12 May 2007, 22:40:52 UTC This is a sight for sore eyes: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html And I'll bet there's a couple of staff members at Berkeley who have sore eyes right now because of hard work and very little or no sleep! Again, thank you Jeff and Eric for your dedication and hard work. And there's no new work to go out, so those WU's people have received must have been some recycled WU's. A suggestion: Please keep an eye on the server page and keep your client to "no new work" until you see there are new WU's to get. "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me ID: 566128 ·

Dennis Lathem Send message Joined: 3 Dec 06 Posts: 27 Credit: 1,126,010 RAC: 0	Message 566136 - Posted: 12 May 2007, 22:48:19 UTC - in response to Message 566128. Thanks for the hard work getting thumper thumping again! Hopefully, soon we will be awash in WUs. I have six machines that I need to wake up! The Sun Also Rises ID: 566136 ·

DaveSun Send message Joined: 17 Jun 00 Posts: 110 Credit: 13,713,289 RAC: 2	Message 566138 - Posted: 12 May 2007, 22:50:00 UTC - in response to Message 566128. This is a sight for sore eyes: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html And I'll bet there's a couple of staff members at Berkeley who have sore eyes right now because of hard work and very little or no sleep! Again, thank you Jeff and Eric for your dedication and hard work. And there's no new work to go out, so those WU's people have received must have been some recycled WU's. A suggestion: Please keep an eye on the server page and keep your client to "no new work" until you see there are new WU's to get. I was able to snag a few units. They look like new ones to me. The splitters are creating new work from the status page but they are being snapped up as fast as they are being created. I'd expect this to last a few days before things get back to normal. For now I'm not requseting new work 'til the ones I got are done, should give others a chance to pick up a few as well. ID: 566138 ·

Grant (SSSF) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13835 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304	Message 566141 - Posted: 12 May 2007, 22:51:04 UTC - in response to Message 566086. Last modified: 12 May 2007, 23:13:55 UTC So do not be surprised if you do not get work for a few days. Since they get the new hardware the recovery from outages has been much faster & I'd hope things will be back to normal within 12 hours or less. Although if the present Result Creation rate on the server status page is correct, it will be closer to 2 days from now. EDIT- the result creation rate is dropping & continues to drop. Some process hung somewhere? Could take a week (or longer) to recover at it's present rate of decline. Grant Darwin NT ID: 566141 ·

Fuzzy Hollynoodles Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0	Message 566142 - Posted: 12 May 2007, 22:53:32 UTC - in response to Message 566138. This is a sight for sore eyes: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html And I'll bet there's a couple of staff members at Berkeley who have sore eyes right now because of hard work and very little or no sleep! Again, thank you Jeff and Eric for your dedication and hard work. And there's no new work to go out, so those WU's people have received must have been some recycled WU's. A suggestion: Please keep an eye on the server page and keep your client to "no new work" until you see there are new WU's to get. I was able to snag a few units. They look like new ones to me. The splitters are creating new work from the status page but they are being snapped up as fast as they are being created. I'd expect this to last a few days before things get back to normal. For now I'm not requseting new work 'til the ones I got are done, should give others a chance to pick up a few as well. They might be testing and some fresh WU's are added to the queue? Could be? "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me ID: 566142 ·

Stephen Send message Joined: 1 Sep 06 Posts: 103 Credit: 11,155,194 RAC: 0	Message 566151 - Posted: 12 May 2007, 23:13:00 UTC Is anyone having trouble reporting back finished WUs? I have 2 done, and I can't get them off my results list. ID: 566151 ·

Grant (SSSF) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13835 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304	Message 566154 - Posted: 12 May 2007, 23:15:35 UTC - in response to Message 566151. Is anyone having trouble reporting back finished WUs? I have 2 done, and I can't get them off my results list. It has been that way ever since the death of Thumper & will remain that way till everyone's caches have refilled. The load of people trying to report results & get new work is what makes contacting the schedulers a hit or miss affair. Grant Darwin NT ID: 566154 ·

Dirk and LoriEllen Send message Joined: 13 Feb 07 Posts: 27 Credit: 27,573 RAC: 0	Message 566207 - Posted: 13 May 2007, 1:06:41 UTC Tie me Kangaroo down sport. SETI is b.i.b. ID: 566207 ·

wiggyhamham Send message Joined: 28 Apr 05 Posts: 2 Credit: 2,495 RAC: 0	Message 566214 - Posted: 13 May 2007, 1:22:30 UTC Great to see everything is back and working once more. Got my first work unit downloaded on my laptop about 2 hrs ago and started crunching data immediately :) The old computer processors had a nice vacation, now it's back to business :p ID: 566214 ·

Dennis Lathem Send message Joined: 3 Dec 06 Posts: 27 Credit: 1,126,010 RAC: 0	Message 566231 - Posted: 13 May 2007, 1:46:06 UTC - in response to Message 566214. I just got me some WORK! YIPPIEE! Its Crunchin Time! ID: 566231 ·

TerryG Send message Joined: 11 Mar 01 Posts: 16 Credit: 15,351,703 RAC: 37	Message 566238 - Posted: 13 May 2007, 1:54:25 UTC - in response to Message 566231. I just got me some WORK! YIPPIEE! Its Crunchin Time! I got one unit on one machine out of three. I guess the server is being swamped as the others haven't managed to download anything yet. Oh well! One's better than none. Well done guys. ID: 566238 ·

Stick Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Feb 00 Posts: 100 Credit: 5,283,449 RAC: 5	Message 566249 - Posted: 13 May 2007, 2:13:30 UTC - in response to Message 566238. Last modified: 13 May 2007, 2:36:12 UTC I just got me some WORK! YIPPIEE! Its Crunchin Time! I got one unit on one machine out of three. I guess the server is being swamped as the others haven't managed to download anything yet. Oh well! One's better than none. Well done guys. It might be a bit early to break out the Champagne. I think there may still be some problems with the servers. Like you only one of my hosts has been able to d/l a WU (about 5 hours ago). It finished it (about 2 hours ago) but hasn't been able to u/l it yet (and, after this long outage, there isn't a backlog of finished work). Also, the "Database/file status" numbers on the server status page haven't changed in over an hour. In other words, we may be close, but we ain't there yet. ID: 566249 ·

zombie67 [MM] Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 22 Apr 04 Posts: 758 Credit: 27,771,894 RAC: 0	Message 566254 - Posted: 13 May 2007, 2:25:36 UTC I wonder if the server is spitting out all or mostly the super short WUs. If so, it may never be able distribute enough work to get caught up to the demand. It should be concentrating distributing the biggest WUs possible for now. Dublin, California Team: SETI.USA ID: 566254 ·

Fusky* Send message Joined: 9 Apr 07 Posts: 120 Credit: 415,845 RAC: 0	Message 566259 - Posted: 13 May 2007, 2:30:58 UTC happy to have my computer working again on those wu woo-hoo! ID: 566259 ·

Aurora Borealis Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Jan 01 Posts: 3075 Credit: 5,631,463 RAC: 0	Message 566277 - Posted: 13 May 2007, 3:09:29 UTC - in response to Message 566254. Last modified: 13 May 2007, 3:17:15 UTC I wonder if the server is spitting out all or mostly the super short WUs. If so, it may never be able distribute enough work to get caught up to the demand. It should be concentrating distributing the biggest WUs possible for now. It's not a matter of choice. The so-called short WU just happen to be a section of the recording with more interference. Whatever tape is being split goes into the queue. The tapes that are currently being split, in many cases, are those that were known to be too noisy for the old software but may contain useful data that can be extracted with the enhanced application. You get what you get. If it is an extra noisy recording, you get a lot of noisy WU, which the application stops analyzing after a very short time so that it doesn't create a very large useless report. They still need to be processed. This recovery will take at least a few days no matter what is being sent out. I'm keeping my systems busy with other projects until the people that are not as aware of the problem get their tanks filled, then I'll turn Seti back on. Boinc V7.2.42 Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470 ID: 566277 ·

Grant (SSSF) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13835 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304	Message 566338 - Posted: 13 May 2007, 6:17:29 UTC - in response to Message 566277. This recovery will take at least a few days no matter what is being sent out. At the present rate, about 40 hours from the last server stats update. Grant Darwin NT ID: 566338 ·

Sir Barsteward of Pubs Send message Joined: 29 May 99 Posts: 3 Credit: 320,520 RAC: 0	Message 566347 - Posted: 13 May 2007, 6:43:24 UTC Great news, thanks for all the hard work you people have done to get Thumper up and running again and thanks to Sun for their incredible donation. I wish Thumper II a long and healthy life. The Barsteward Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin ID: 566347 ·

Dark Angel Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Aug 01 Posts: 432 Credit: 2,673,754 RAC: 0	Message 566354 - Posted: 13 May 2007, 7:10:30 UTC What an awesome gift to come home this evening and find my machines crunching away most contentedly. A very very big thank you to the SETI staff for their hard work and dedication to the project and another very big thank you to SUN for their generous donation to the backbone of our joy and personal obsessions. ID: 566354 ·

Mephist0 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Dec 99 Posts: 12 Credit: 1,401,540 RAC: 0	Message 566355 - Posted: 13 May 2007, 7:12:48 UTC - in response to Message 566277. Last modified: 13 May 2007, 7:13:40 UTC I'm keeping my systems busy with other projects until the people that are not as aware of the problem get their tanks filled, then I'll turn Seti back on. Same here, Ill let my 10 computers at work do work on other projects until some work are queued up here and connection problems are gone. Maybe on monday i can turn off the other projects and let them empty the work cache, that will make all computers ready to request work from SETI on wednesday or thursday.. ID: 566355 ·

Mike Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34347 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80	Message 566356 - Posted: 13 May 2007, 7:15:32 UTC I have got some new WUs created may 13 4:33. Thanks for your awesome job guys. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. ID: 566356 ·

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