On the latest Cricket update the hiccups seemed to have stopped.

Will they find anything when they get in, or should someone give them a clue?

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

Lets tease them, give them a clue later on.

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I thought those were power glitches caused by the light going on in an ancient bar fridge, when Eric opens the fridge door looking for another beer .... I think we should really donate towards a more modern dedicated bar fridge that won't risk compromising data or network connectivity :O

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"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.

I thought those were power glitches caused by the light going on in an ancient bar fridge, when Eric opens the fridge door looking for another beer .... I think we should really donate towards a more modern dedicated bar fridge that won't risk compromising data or network connectivity :O

Nahhh. It was the cleaners sequentially unplugging various bits of critical kit to plug in the vac's. 's what cleaners are for, isn't it?

F.

[Edit]But Jason's suggestion paints a much more interesting picture.[/Edit]

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Looks like the assimilators are all failing for some reason. And on a weekend, too. Maybe somebody should alert the staff. Oh wait - that's me. I guess I'll look into it.

- 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

Looks like the assimilators are all failing for some reason. And on a weekend, too. Maybe somebody should alert the staff. Oh wait - that's me. I guess I'll look into it.

- Matt

That's dedication. Awake before 7:00 AM on a Sunday morning and checking his servers already. I'm impressed.

Looks like the assimilators are all failing for some reason. And on a weekend, too. Maybe somebody should alert the staff. Oh wait - that's me. I guess I'll look into it.

- Matt

That's dedication. Awake before 7:00 AM on a Sunday morning and checking his servers already. I'm impressed.

Many's the time that one of the boyz has given up weekend time to run into the lab and give things a good kick to get things flowing again......they truly are a dedicated bunch....

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

THanks for clearing that up MArk, seems to be an intermittent problem. I think i'll just kick the router in a minute.

Mind your toe when you give it a kick..........

Good advice... About 30 years ago I was having problems getting a "punch card" program to read through the IBM 2540 card reader/punch. The program was about 700 cards long and kept getting read errors. Out of frustration I hauled off and kicked the darn card reader! Broke a toe and walked with a limp for a year. The foolish things we do while still a teen....

Regards,
JDWhale

I kicked an IBM 1622, caught it right on the corner.

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So Matt,
I see the assimilators are still offline. Since you caught this on Sunday morning and they're still not working, wondering if it's serious?

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wondering if it's serious?

Yep, there's a little message on the home page.
And Scarecrow's Graphs show just how constipated things are.

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Grant
Darwin NT

THanks for clearing that up MArk, seems to be an intermittent problem. I think i'll just kick the router in a minute.

Mind your toe when you give it a kick..........

Good advice... About 30 years ago I was having problems getting a "punch card" program to read through the IBM 2540 card reader/punch. The program was about 700 cards long and kept getting read errors. Out of frustration I hauled off and kicked the darn card reader! Broke a toe and walked with a limp for a year. The foolish things we do while still a teen....

Regards,
JDWhale

I kicked an IBM 1622, caught it right on the corner.

Hi Ned,
I remember me, a frustrated programmer opened the door of the "Central Processor Unit" and kicked into the circuit-boards, but this was his last day, he get fired immediately, so you and Whale had have very big luck....
It was a nice time to work with MFT, MVT etc on this machines.
heinz

wondering if it's serious?

Yep, there's a little message on the home page.
And Scarecrow's Graphs show just how constipated things are.

Just upped my cache just in case.

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And no good credit hound!

So Matt,
I see the assimilators are still offline. Since you caught this on Sunday morning and they're still not working, wondering if it's serious?

Judging from this snippet (below) taken from the home page news, i'd say things are serious:

June 2, 2008
The assimilators started malfunctioning over the weekend, which indicates that there may be a problem in a portion of the science database. We've had to turn off work generation while we discuss our options. We will probably be out of work in 8 hours or so.

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BOINC blog

So Matt,
I see the assimilators are still offline. Since you caught this on Sunday morning and they're still not working, wondering if it's serious?

Judging from this snippet (below) taken from the home page news, i'd say things are serious:

June 2, 2008
The assimilators started malfunctioning over the weekend, which indicates that there may be a problem in a portion of the science database. We've had to turn off work generation while we discuss our options. We will probably be out of work in 8 hours or so.

Ready to send is down to 52K. It was over 500K last night.

Not super-serious. The current understanding is that some database spaces filled up, or at least became unwriteable. The solution may be simple but time consuming (off for another day or two). No data loss or server crash or anything like that. More details after the usual outage and the forums are back on line.

- 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

Not super-serious. The current understanding is that some database spaces filled up, or at least became unwriteable. The solution may be simple but time consuming (off for another day or two). No data loss or server crash or anything like that. More details after the usual outage and the forums are back on line.

- Matt

Thanks for the update Matt. Have a great day!

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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!

Don't want to jinx things, but the system's looking pretty good.
The Work Units & Results Awaiting Deletion cleared not long after the daily outage. The Ready to Send buffer is almost full, and while doing that the Waiting for Validation & Waiting for Assimilation queues have been slowly draining; i expect once the RtS buffer is full they'll start to drain faster?

It would have been interesting to see how well things would have gone if we'd had a big batch of short Work Units going through, i expect these longer ones have helped minimise the server load a lot.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Well...

Another time the comunications are down...

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Logan.

BOINC FAQ Service (Ahora, también disponible en Español/Now available in Spanish)

Just reporting the same experience in my thread.

Sorry to duplicate.

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

Well...

Another time the comunications are down...

Cricket graph

Our Mother of cache.....don't fail me now.......LOL.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."