I have a 10 day cache and Einstein as backup, no worries.

Matt will have it bludgeoned into submission soon.

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Wow ... this is the first time I've seen red on the Server Status page.

Vader is having some difficulties as a transitioner, while the downloader on Vader is working fine.

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Gateway GT5692 L-f-S Edition
-Phenom X4 9650 CPU
-4GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM
-500GB SATA HD
-Vista x64 SP1
-BOINC 6.2.19 32-bit client
-SSE3 optimized 32-bit apps

I just figure to suspend SETI on each workstation which has a hung on uploading workunit -- those hung workunits will eventually clear so they can get reported and then I will take SETI on those workstations off suspend. I already dropped resource share by 40% to facilitate moving over to smaller but more reliable projects.

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I see that a few things went through today while I was at work. Downloaded a full cache of wu’s. :)

Still can’t upload results tho. About 30 in the trough. :(

I wonder if I should disconnect from the internet for a day or two? One less computer trying to access Berkeley might be good and I’ve work on board for 5 days.

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

Come on, just a couple of uploads stuck... we've gone through worse.

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mic.

I have only four uploads stuck right now, and am downloading work just fine to fill out my three day cache. Not really panicking over here...

Come on, just a couple of uploads stuck... we've gone through worse.

...and not exactly a reason to set panicMode = 1

Not really panicking over here...

If you wanted to see panic you should have been here in May '07. LOL.

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

If you wanted to see panic you should have been here in May '07. LOL.

I was here in May '07 and I don't remember what happened! I'm guessing it was a big outage. People need to relax a bit. This is just a hobby after all.

If you wanted to see panic you should have been here in May '07. LOL.

I was here in May '07 and I don't remember what happened! I'm guessing it was a big outage. People need to relax a bit. This is just a hobby after all.

Major hardware failure of some sort (don't remember what) and SETI was down for at least a week.

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If you wanted to see panic you should have been here in May '07. LOL.

I was here in May '07 and I don't remember what happened! I'm guessing it was a big outage. People need to relax a bit. This is just a hobby after all.

Major hardware failure of some sort (don't remember what) and SETI was down for at least a week.

The original Thumper died completely and they had to get a new server from Sun. No new work for about a week, as I recall.

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

Can't remember, was that the kryten- or the thumper breakdown?

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kenzieB was quicker... :)
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mic.

If you wanted to see panic you should have been here in May '07. LOL.

I was here in May '07 and I don't remember what happened! I'm guessing it was a big outage. People need to relax a bit. This is just a hobby after all.

So, obviously, if May '07 was problematic, and the world did not come to an end, then we came through it okay.

... and given that the majority of SETI crunchers are on autopilot, leaving everything alone is probably just fine.

Remember that there are more than 800,000 participants, and less than 4,300 who have posted at least one message this year.

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The original Thumper died completely and they had to get a new server from Sun. No new work for about a week, as I recall.

Still think the replacement should have been named "Flower."

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Remember that there are more than 800,000 participants, and less than 4,300 who have posted at least one message this year.

so everyone here has to do the panicing for 186 silent crunchers...

:)

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mic.

Remember that there are more than 800,000 participants, and less than 4,300 who have posted at least one message this year.

so everyone here has to do the panicing for 186 silent crunchers...

:)

... or not.

Hopefully, I represent my 186 constituents when I completely fail to react to any outage less than three or four days.

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Remember that there are more than 800,000 participants, and less than 4,300 who have posted at least one message this year.

so everyone here has to do the panicing for 186 silent crunchers...

:)

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

Indeed we've gone thru worse and no doubt will have worse problems in the future -- that is part of the concept behind multiple project processing. There was a time when SETI was my only project --- I've joined 10 over the years, with two of them being defunct (BBC Climate which shut down with good warning and explanation, and Predictor which has been a very bad citizen in the BOINC world). These days I still do processing with the early set (SETI, then Einstein, then Climate, then World Grid), but when I started encountering multiple project outages of one form or another, I added Rosetta, Spinhenge, Malaria and most recently MilkyWay).

So when SETI demonstrates a bit of ongoing crankiness, it is a relatively simple task to adjust the cycles.

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Indeed we've gone thru worse and no doubt will have worse problems in the future -- that is part of the concept behind multiple project processing.

True, but that isn't the only tool in the BOINC arsenal that is designed to deal with outages.

If you're worried about an outage, just carry a little bit of extra cache, 3 or 4 days max. will cover all but the worst outages.

I quit changing settings to deal with outages years ago. I sit back and watch as everyone gets all excited, suspends network activity, shuts down, and even talks about finding projects that "have their act together" and sure enough, when the servers come back, BOINC does its' job, reports work, and continues on as if nothing unusual happened.

... and you know something: what happened isn't unusual. BOINC is designed so that a project can have less than 99.999% reliability and still crunch along perfectly.

I crunch SETI and SETI Beta -- and that's all.

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Since early this morning, I have been experiencing trouble accessing the seti@home webpages. Whenever I tried to open my account page, it came up with a page with just the heading "Your Account" and the logo. The rest of the page would be blank. The home page still returns HTTP 500 error.

I finally accessed the account page through google and I now notice that the link for the account page is Your_Account (with an underscore). The workunit uploads and downloads are normal.

Since I am not able to access most of the other pages, I have no clue whether this is an isolated incident or if others are facing this too. Does anyone have any information?

Edit: Finally managed to get into the webpage and this is what I get. You will notice that all the links are different now.

Vipin

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