What a weekend. As noted by the others they successfully got the replacement science database server from Sun and brought it to the lab Friday afternoon. As we hoped it was basically plug n' play after putting the old thumper's drives in it. After some file system syncing and data checking Eric started the splitters on Saturday. All was well until bruno's httpd processes choked (more on that below). So we were not sending work for a whole day until Jeff kicked bruno this morning. The bright side is this allowed the splitters to create a whole pile of work in the meantime which we are sending out right now as fast as we can. The main bottleneck is NFS on the workunit file server which is (and always has been) choking at around 60 Mbps. It'll take a while for things to catch up.

We officially retired both koloth and kryten as of today - both are powered down, and in the case of koloth completely removed from the closet to make way for thumper, sidious, and then some. With the closet as empty as it has been in a long time I finally removed dozens of unused SCSI/ethernet/terminal/power cables that came with the rack, all tucked in various corners and secured with cable ties. The process of cutting the tightly wound ties in sharp metal cages left me with four bleeding wounds on my hands - nothing bad, only two required band aids - but I've wanted to get that particular clutter out of that rack for years.

With koloth and kryten gone bruno has been taking up most of the slack. I noticed last week it gets into these periods of malaise where httpd just stops working. I think this may be buggy restart logic when we rotate web logs, but it's a little weirder than that. Adding insult to injury one of its internal drives just up and died today. Luckily it was a RAID spare so nothing was harmed, and we had replacement drives already donated to us a while back. Eric replaced the drive, but we may need to reboot to fully pick it up. Probably during the usual outage tomorrow. Bruno is dropping lots of packets right now, resulting in all kinds of upload/download snags and showing up as "disabled" on the server status page. This should clear up over time.

The server situation will be in major flux, and generally in a positive direction, over the next week or so. I'll be trying to keep updating the server status page, but I make no guarantees about its accuracy.

Thanks again for your patience during the past couple of weeks. While I appreciate the kind words and sentiments I should point out that this past weekend for me wasn't exactly restful time off. I was working at
my other job.

- Matt

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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Gr8! Then it all should be back to normal then :) Good job and hope you get a little rest during this week Matt! :)

Take care!

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Well tbh, I've just detached the project and will stay away for a few days, if not slightly longer. I've had no joy downloading anything. (Heh i just got boinc up and running again after a break of 6 months or so just for the servers to go down >.<). I had downloaded a total of a meg in a week o.O.

I'll just let Rosetta, world community grid and folding@home crunch away until i have a half decent chance of downloading anything ;)

My sympathies for all the headaches this must have caused, and I'm quite happy to be patient ;)

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Koloth and Kryten R.I.P. in computer scrap heaven or wherever you two are heading...

Thanks for the update, Matt. It's very much appreciated.

And we know you are working hard in both your jobs, hopefully having fun.

A huge thank you to all you people over there for your efforts. :-)

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

As usual you have all gone above and beyond the call of duty. Many thanks, it is appreciated.

What a weekend. As noted by the others they successfully got the replacement science database server from Sun and brought it to the lab Friday afternoon. As we hoped it was basically plug n' play after putting the old thumper's drives in it. After some file system syncing and data checking Eric started the splitters on Saturday. All was well until bruno's httpd processes choked (more on that below). So we were not sending work for a whole day until Jeff kicked bruno this morning. The bright side is this allowed the splitters to create a whole pile of work in the meantime which we are sending out right now as fast as we can. The main bottleneck is NFS on the workunit file server which is (and always has been) choking at around 60 Mbps. It'll take a while for things to catch up.

Good man! I don't pretend to understand the science or the terminology. However I do appreciate all the work that you chaps have put in (inc. Sun) since the project fell over.
I've SETI'd for some years now and don't intend to finish for a while yet.
Updates have been, and continue to be, a great bonus.
Well done.
Nick

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I have a lot of WUs with deadline May 18. UTC 04:40

The server will be fixed to this date?

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Could we get pics of the system power that is harnessed in the closet? Could make for some nice backgrounds.
-kris

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2007-05-15 00:49:43 [SETI@home] [file_xfer] Started upload of file 29ja04ab.27703.4690.467332.3.113_1_0
2007-05-15 00:49:43 [SETI@home] [file_xfer] Started upload of file 29ja04ab.27703.6272.1003390.3.57_2_0
2007-05-15 00:49:46 [---] Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2007-05-15 00:49:46 [SETI@home] [file_xfer] Temporarily failed upload of 29ja04ab.27703.4690.467332.3.113_1_0: system connect
2007-05-15 00:49:46 [SETI@home] Backing off 8 min 30 sec on upload of file 29ja04ab.27703.4690.467332.3.113_1_0
2007-05-15 00:49:46 [SETI@home] [file_xfer] Temporarily failed upload of 29ja04ab.27703.6272.1003390.3.57_2_0: system connect
2007-05-15 00:49:46 [SETI@home] Backing off 28 min 36 sec on upload of file 29ja04ab.27703.6272.1003390.3.57_2_0
2007-05-15 00:49:46 [SETI@home] [file_xfer] Started upload of file 29se04ab.22429.31842.317338.3.64_0_0
2007-05-15 00:49:46 [SETI@home] [file_xfer] Started upload of file 29se04ab.22429.31842.317338.3.62_0_0
2007-05-15 00:49:47 [---] Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.

Is this a part of some of the recovery problems or what? It seems as if BOINC is able to access the servers, but none is responding or receiving?

Johan

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Hi

The Update info you are writing to us is very appreciated, thanks for that, Matt
keep up the good work.

Sincerely
Alex Striker

Team Striker

Denmark

Team Striker - Denmark

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Happy Crunching

/Alex Striker, founder of:
Team Striker SETI/BOINC

English version webpage
us on Facebook

Thanks to all who got things together again, well done!!! I have work!!! yay

thanks again

What a weekend. As noted by the others they successfully got the replacement science database server from Sun and brought it to the lab Friday afternoon. As we hoped it was basically plug n' play after putting the old thumper's drives in it. After some file system syncing and data checking Eric started the splitters on Saturday. All was well until bruno's httpd processes choked (more on that below). So we were not sending work for a whole day until Jeff kicked bruno this morning. The bright side is this allowed the splitters to create a whole pile of work in the meantime which we are sending out right now as fast as we can. The main bottleneck is NFS on the workunit file server which is (and always has been) choking at around 60 Mbps. It'll take a while for things to catch up.

We officially retired both koloth and kryten as of today - both are powered down, and in the case of koloth completely removed from the closet to make way for thumper, sidious, and then some. With the closet as empty as it has been in a long time I finally removed dozens of unused SCSI/ethernet/terminal/power cables that came with the rack, all tucked in various corners and secured with cable ties. The process of cutting the tightly wound ties in sharp metal cages left me with four bleeding wounds on my hands - nothing bad, only two required band aids - but I've wanted to get that particular clutter out of that rack for years.

With koloth and kryten gone bruno has been taking up most of the slack. I noticed last week it gets into these periods of malaise where httpd just stops working. I think this may be buggy restart logic when we rotate web logs, but it's a little weirder than that. Adding insult to injury one of its internal drives just up and died today. Luckily it was a RAID spare so nothing was harmed, and we had replacement drives already donated to us a while back. Eric replaced the drive, but we may need to reboot to fully pick it up. Probably during the usual outage tomorrow. Bruno is dropping lots of packets right now, resulting in all kinds of upload/download snags and showing up as "disabled" on the server status page. This should clear up over time.

The server situation will be in major flux, and generally in a positive direction, over the next week or so. I'll be trying to keep updating the server status page, but I make no guarantees about its accuracy.

Thanks again for your patience during the past couple of weeks. While I appreciate the kind words and sentiments I should point out that this past weekend for me wasn't exactly restful time off. I was working at
my other job.

- Matt

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marta

Would it be possible to skip the regular Tuesday down-time for this week? At this rate, it will take several days before my pending upload/download backlog has cleared. Additional down time will not help.

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Dublin, California
Team: SETI.USA

Say,,,,Is that Kryten and Koloth I see listed on Ebay???

LOL

Two) slightly used servers

... I've just detached the project and will stay away for a few days ...

i don't think you want to detach -- if "Detach" is the opposite of "Attach to project", then you will lose your coveted low computer number.

better to click on "Suspend" if you want your computer to stop pestering the SETI@Home servers.

or just use "No new tasks", so that your computer at least tries to complete the download and execution of the tasks already assigned to it.

Hi Matt, Thanks for the update, And all the hard work you guys are doing there. I know what it is like, being in the industry myself.

Keep up the good work, and keep us posted. It helps sooth the nerves of some of the newer crunchers.

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What you do today you will have to live with tonight

upload/download server disabled may explain difficulties in uploading and downloading

upload/download server disabled may explain difficulties in uploading and downloading

Naah, I don't think that's the problem. Even when Bruno indicated it was running there was no contact with it.

Johan

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Way to go team!! Keep up the good Work!!
John

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I just downloaded 5 seti work units. My pc just looked up at me and said "ohhh, i so happy".

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A job well-done! On behalf of the many, thanks to the few of you!

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