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Message 762370 - Posted: 3 Jun 2008, 8:10:39 UTC - in response to Message 761788.  

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....

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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.
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Message 762403 - Posted: 3 Jun 2008, 12:51:09 UTC - in response to Message 762365.  

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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Message 762406 - Posted: 3 Jun 2008, 12:55:34 UTC - in response to Message 762082.  

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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Message 762456 - Posted: 3 Jun 2008, 15:41:23 UTC - in response to Message 762406.  

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.
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Message 762469 - Posted: 3 Jun 2008, 16:06:05 UTC

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.

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Message 762471 - Posted: 3 Jun 2008, 16:07:30 UTC - in response to Message 762469.  

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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Message 762607 - Posted: 4 Jun 2008, 0:58:38 UTC - in response to Message 762365.  

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.

Maybe the Server in question just needs a little Green Draino or an enema. ;)
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Message 762724 - Posted: 4 Jun 2008, 8:01:15 UTC


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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Message 764075 - Posted: 7 Jun 2008, 11:57:31 UTC
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Message 764076 - Posted: 7 Jun 2008, 11:59:04 UTC
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Just reporting the same experience in my thread.

Sorry to duplicate.
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Message 764077 - Posted: 7 Jun 2008, 11:59:17 UTC - in response to Message 764075.  

Well...

Another time the comunications are down...

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Our Mother of cache.....don't fail me now.......LOL.
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Message 764088 - Posted: 7 Jun 2008, 12:11:30 UTC - in response to Message 764077.  

Well...

Another time the comunications are down...

Cricket graph

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


LOL... I always light up 10 candles for Our Mother of Cache...:)
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Message 764098 - Posted: 7 Jun 2008, 12:23:35 UTC

I'm having a feeling of déjà vu or the weekend effect, tsk.
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Message 764103 - Posted: 7 Jun 2008, 12:27:42 UTC - in response to Message 758184.  

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,
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I've done worse and I have the scars to prove It too, Nothing criminal, Just stupidity and a fit of anger.


So have I; same thing (upset with the cat, punched the plastic window, oops, that was the glass one (looks like 18 stitches (from 22 years ago)) luckily only cut a little muscle and not tendons this time.

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Message 764111 - Posted: 7 Jun 2008, 12:48:24 UTC - in response to Message 764103.  


So have I; same thing (upset with the cat, punched the plastic window, oops, that was the glass one (looks like 18 stitches (from 22 years ago)) luckily only cut a little muscle and not tendons this time.

Scott R (SMR)

Ohhhhhhh....been there, done that.....
Punched out the window in the front screen door once about 20 years ago....got the scars on my forearm from it.....
They didn't use safety glass back then.......

Thank God for Plexiglass...........

I wasn't upset with the kitties at the time, but the pizza delivery man was just taking waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long.....LOL.
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Message 764115 - Posted: 7 Jun 2008, 12:58:41 UTC - in response to Message 764075.  
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Well...

Another time the comunications are down...



Three day delay in jinx reaction!

[edit] that was supposed to be in reply to Message 762724!!![/edit]

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Message 764137 - Posted: 7 Jun 2008, 13:42:28 UTC - in response to Message 764115.  

Well...

Another time the comunications are down...



Three day delay in jinx reaction!

[edit] that was supposed to be in reply to Message 762724!!![/edit]


It's a Murphy law... The jinx reaction was waiting to the weekend...:)
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Message 764148 - Posted: 7 Jun 2008, 14:10:38 UTC - in response to Message 764137.  

Well...

Another time the comunications are down...



Three day delay in jinx reaction!

[edit] that was supposed to be in reply to Message 762724!!![/edit]


It's a Murphy law... The jinx reaction was waiting to the weekend...:)


There does seem to be a pattern here.

Has anybody considered that this is how intelligent alien life forms are trying to communicate with us. ;-)

I propose installing an inflatable Matt doll at the console for weekends to ward off evil spirits.

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Message 764153 - Posted: 7 Jun 2008, 14:35:09 UTC

So I hope your Cache is big enough for the next three days...
I have never had some big trouble with this

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Message 764202 - Posted: 7 Jun 2008, 16:03:06 UTC

Oh Oh...
6/7/2008 9:01:52 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
6/7/2008 9:01:53 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: failed sending data to the peer
6/7/2008 9:01:53 AM|SETI@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
6/7/2008 9:01:53 AM|SETI@home|Reason: scheduler request failed
6/7/2008 9:01:54 AM||Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.

Got a lot of units that won't turn in...
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