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

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JJnobody Send message Joined: 16 Mar 01 Posts: 9 Credit: 15,263 RAC: 0	Message 567361 - Posted: 14 May 2007, 20:00:30 UTC - in response to Message 567359. G'day Team, There's still some grief at my end. The new server has files queued on my BOINC Manager and has been attempting to download them for ages and ages. Messages keep appearing that say the following over and over and over. It's been going on for yonks now - any ideas as to what if anything I need to be doing - or is it just a waiting game? Cheers ...... Chris 14/05/2007 5:13:16 PM\|\|Starting BOINC client version 5.8.11 for windows_intelx86 14/05/2007 5:13:16 PM\|\|log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 14/05/2007 5:13:16 PM\|\|Libraries: libcurl/7.16.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8a zlib/1.2.3 14/05/2007 5:13:16 PM\|\|Data directory: C:\\Program Files\\BOINC 14/05/2007 5:13:17 PM\|\|Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 7] [fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 mmx] 14/05/2007 5:13:17 PM\|\|Memory: 1023.43 MB physical, 2.40 GB virtual 14/05/2007 5:13:17 PM\|\|Disk: 149.04 GB total, 117.05 GB free 14/05/2007 5:13:17 PM\|SETI@home\|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 3094689; location: home; project prefs: default 14/05/2007 5:13:17 PM\|\|General prefs: from http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ (last modified 2007-02-20 16:31:48) 14/05/2007 5:13:17 PM\|\|Host location: none 14/05/2007 5:13:17 PM\|\|General prefs: using your defaults 14/05/2007 5:13:18 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Started download of file setiathome_5.15_windows_intelx86.exe 14/05/2007 5:13:18 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Started download of file libfftw3f-3-1-1a.dll 14/05/2007 5:13:40 PM\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 14/05/2007 5:13:40 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of setiathome_5.15_windows_intelx86.exe: system connect 14/05/2007 5:13:40 PM\|SETI@home\|Backing off 5 min 46 sec on download of file setiathome_5.15_windows_intelx86.exe 14/05/2007 5:13:40 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a.dll: system connect 14/05/2007 5:13:40 PM\|SETI@home\|Backing off 2 min 17 sec on download of file libfftw3f-3-1-1a.dll 14/05/2007 5:13:40 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Started download of file setiathome_5.15_COPYING 14/05/2007 5:13:40 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Started download of file setiathome_5.15_COPYRIGHT 14/05/2007 5:13:42 PM\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 14/05/2007 5:14:02 PM\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 14/05/2007 5:14:02 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of setiathome_5.15_COPYING: system connect 14/05/2007 5:14:02 PM\|SETI@home\|Backing off 2 min 42 sec on download of file setiathome_5.15_COPYING 14/05/2007 5:14:02 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of setiathome_5.15_COPYRIGHT: system connect 14/05/2007 5:14:02 PM\|SETI@home\|Backing off 5 min 56 sec on download of file setiathome_5.15_COPYRIGHT 14/05/2007 5:14:02 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Started download of file setiathome_5.15_README 14/05/2007 5:14:02 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Started download of file seti515.jpg 14/05/2007 5:14:03 PM\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 14/05/2007 5:14:23 PM\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 14/05/2007 5:14:23 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of setiathome_5.15_README: system connect 14/05/2007 5:14:23 PM\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 39 sec on download of file setiathome_5.15_README 14/05/2007 5:14:23 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of seti515.jpg: system connect 14/05/2007 5:14:23 PM\|SETI@home\|Backing off 2 min 4 sec on download of file seti515.jpg 14/05/2007 5:14:23 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Started download of file setiathome_5.15_AUTHORS 14/05/2007 5:14:23 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Started download of file 16fe05ab.10775.16241.873586.3.26 14/05/2007 5:14:24 PM\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 14/05/2007 5:14:45 PM\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 14/05/2007 5:14:45 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of setiathome_5.15_AUTHORS: system connect 14/05/2007 5:14:45 PM\|SETI@home\|Backing off 3 min 52 sec on download of file setiathome_5.15_AUTHORS 14/05/2007 5:14:45 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of 16fe05ab.10775.16241.873586.3.26: system connect 14/05/2007 5:14:45 PM\|SETI@home\|Backing off 3 min 7 sec on download of file 16fe05ab.10775.16241.873586.3.26 14/05/2007 5:14:45 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Started download of file 16fe05ab.10775.16241.873586.3.140 14/05/2007 5:14:47 PM\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 14/05/2007 5:15:06 PM\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 14/05/2007 5:15:06 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of 16fe05ab.10775.16241.873586.3.140: system connect 14/05/2007 5:15:06 PM\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 49 sec on download of file 16fe05ab.10775.16241.873586.3.140 14/05/2007 5:15:09 PM\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 14/05/2007 5:15:59 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Started download of file libfftw3f-3-1-1a.dll 14/05/2007 5:16:04 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Started download of file setiathome_5.15_README 14/05/2007 5:16:21 PM\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 14/05/2007 5:16:21 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a.dll: system connect 14/05/2007 5:16:21 PM\|SETI@home\|Backing off 4 min 42 sec on download of file libfftw3f-3-1-1a.dll 14/05/2007 5:16:23 PM\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 14/05/2007 5:16:26 PM\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 14/05/2007 5:16:26 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of setiathome_5.15_README: system connect 14/05/2007 5:16:26 PM\|SETI@home\|Backing off 4 min 35 sec on download of file setiathome_5.15_README 14/05/2007 5:16:28 PM\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 14/05/2007 5:16:28 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Started download of file seti515.jpg 14/05/2007 5:16:44 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Started download of file setiathome_5.15_COPYING 14/05/2007 5:16:50 PM\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 14/05/2007 5:16:50 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of seti515.jpg: system connect 14/05/2007 5:16:50 PM\|SETI@home\|Backing off 15 min 57 sec on download of file seti515.jpg 14/05/2007 5:16:52 PM\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 14/05/2007 5:16:56 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Started download of file 16fe05ab.10775.16241.873586.3.140 14/05/2007 5:17:06 PM\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 14/05/2007 5:17:06 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of setiathome_5.15_COPYING: system connect 14/05/2007 5:17:06 PM\|SETI@home\|Backing off 16 min 0 sec on download of file setiathome_5.15_COPYING 14/05/2007 5:17:08 PM\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 14/05/2007 5:17:19 PM\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 14/05/2007 5:17:20 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of 16fe05ab.10775.16241.873586.3.140: system connect 14/05/2007 5:17:20 PM\|SETI@home\|Backing off 2 min 8 sec on download of file 16fe05ab.10775.16241.873586.3.140 14/05/2007 5:17:21 PM\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 14/05/2007 5:17:53 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Started download of file 16fe05ab.10775.16241.873586.3.26 Same here, have a bunch of machines waiting for work... managed to get a wu on one machine about 3 hours ago, it was a short one, had it processed in a half hour but will not upload back... all the other machines are cached but haven't actually downloaded them... I'm chalking it up to congestion... at least I hope. ID: 567361 ·

DamageCase Send message Joined: 5 May 07 Posts: 3 Credit: 414,432 RAC: 0	Message 567364 - Posted: 14 May 2007, 20:06:54 UTC The servers are most likely being overwhelmed with requests atm. Give it a day or two (if everything keeps working as it should) and things should look a lot smoother. ID: 567364 ·

Mephist0 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Dec 99 Posts: 12 Credit: 1,401,540 RAC: 0	Message 567370 - Posted: 14 May 2007, 20:22:02 UTC - in response to Message 567364. The servers are most likely being overwhelmed with requests atm. Give it a day or two (if everything keeps working as it should) and things should look a lot smoother. Now the upload/download server is taken down .. Shows disabled in the server status.. This evening i have got 2 WU downloaded and still trying to get 4 more.. Have been going like that for 24hours but only recently it got 2 of them dl:ed.. I will not request more work until my computer is out of work again and that will probably be in 24 hours or something since i have Rosetta project too.. Hope the congestion will be fixed :D ID: 567370 ·

BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0	Message 567374 - Posted: 14 May 2007, 20:29:59 UTC - in response to Message 567364. I'm sort of hoping that they DON'T take the servers offline tomorrow for the 'normal' backup cycle. With the very large user upload/download hit due to the week long outage, I'd think we might need two to three solid days of 'normal' run time to get out from under. Certainly today the server upload/download side of things is clearly under a lot of pressure. The servers are most likely being overwhelmed with requests atm. Give it a day or two (if everything keeps working as it should) and things should look a lot smoother. ID: 567374 ·

Ghery S. Pettit Send message Joined: 7 Nov 99 Posts: 325 Credit: 28,109,066 RAC: 82	Message 567375 - Posted: 14 May 2007, 20:31:41 UTC - in response to Message 567331. At the moment I believe Matt is putting thumper into the server closet, since it sounds like an airplane engine (it was in the main SETI@home lab over the weekend, I think). What..you guys don't like the sound of airplane engines in and about your workspace? ;) LoL! Me neither & thanks for the mid-day update!!! It all depends on what kind of airplane engine. :-) Turbine? No thanks. Big radial, you bet! I LOVE the sound of a big radial coming to life. Nothing like it in the world. ID: 567375 ·

Scarecrow Send message Joined: 15 Jul 00 Posts: 4520 Credit: 486,601 RAC: 0	Message 567378 - Posted: 14 May 2007, 20:40:16 UTC - in response to Message 567327. since it sounds like an airplane engine Here, we've always considered a 100+ db level in the computer room an efficiency enhancement. Sysops tend not to fall asleep, thus increasing productivity. They do wander about saying "HUH?" quite a bit however. Good job getting it all going, guys! ID: 567378 ·

Niteryder Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 64 Credit: 22,663,988 RAC: 18	Message 567380 - Posted: 14 May 2007, 20:43:03 UTC Last modified: 14 May 2007, 20:45:24 UTC upload/download server bruno Disabled [As of 14 May 2007 20:30:32 UTC] Now the upload/download server shows to be disabled. ID: 567380 ·

EVE: Retsil Evad Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 7 Credit: 905,487 RAC: 0	Message 567409 - Posted: 14 May 2007, 21:47:49 UTC - in response to Message 567375. It all depends on what kind of airplane engine. :-) Turbine? No thanks. Big radial, you bet! I LOVE the sound of a big radial coming to life. Nothing like it in the world. Agreed. I used to live near a small regional airport that was also the base for some restored WWII aircraft, and i much prefer the sound of a radial engine to that of an inline, except for that gorgeous sound emminating from the exhaust of a Rolls Rouce Merlin engine :) My favourite sounding plane? The Harvards. ID: 567409 ·

Bax Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 182 Credit: 3,919,072 RAC: 0	Message 567434 - Posted: 14 May 2007, 22:33:59 UTC - in response to Message 567380. upload/download server bruno Disabled [As of 14 May 2007 20:30:32 UTC] Now the upload/download server shows to be disabled. Appears back online now. Join The Assimilators Free Internet Radio! "The Assimilators" Browser Toolbar! ID: 567434 ·

Grant (SSSF) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13904 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304	Message 567642 - Posted: 15 May 2007, 4:24:17 UTC - in response to Message 567434. Appears back online now. Yep, although the graph doesn't look healthy. Normally it's a big surge that remains for a few hours & then gradually drops off, then drops right off. But this graph shows lots of "spikes" where the throughput is stopping during the overall surge in traffic. Grant Darwin NT ID: 567642 ·

Mike Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34463 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80	Message 567704 - Posted: 15 May 2007, 6:52:54 UTC I expect the devs will use the outage to clean the pipe and optimize things. Mike With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. ID: 567704 ·

Grant (SSSF) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13904 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304	Message 567749 - Posted: 15 May 2007, 8:10:51 UTC - in response to Message 567683. Please some feedback from the project please ?? Whats happening ? If you check out the latest Technical News thread all will be revealed. Grant Darwin NT ID: 567749 ·

KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0	Message 567902 - Posted: 15 May 2007, 12:38:39 UTC - in response to Message 567331. Last modified: 15 May 2007, 12:44:22 UTC At the moment I believe Matt is putting thumper into the server closet, since it sounds like an airplane engine (it was in the main SETI@home lab over the weekend, I think). What..you guys don't like the sound of airplane engines in and about your workspace? ;) LoL! Me neither & thanks for the mid-day update!!! Would you like to work next to a screamin' 130+ decibel monster jet engine? I dunno about decibels, but that's probably what the new Thumper sounds like... I've had disk drives that sounded like a Turbofan jet engine on startup, when the drive was powered on. (only one at a time, though!) Thumper has 48 disk drives - imagine all those starting at once! . Hello, from Albany, CA!... ID: 567902 ·

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