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BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
For the past couple of months there has been an upload jam up to one degree or another every weekend. This particular weekend is a bit worse than 'normal'. This is an established project -- a VERY established project. It has a very large user count to support and is running close to the edge in terms of the upload/download pipe it has to work with as well as the actual processing hardware -- that is a function of the very large and active user base being supported. There is also a certain amount of tweaking going on -- say with the Astropulse client or the 'Cuda support. The thing is, with a very small margin of error to work with, that means if anything goes 'bump in the night' one sees a cascade of issues. Thus, the stated 2 to 4 hour Tuesday outage (which typically actually runs 4 to 6 hours) results in another 'catch up' challenge for the subsquent 4 to 12 hours. I suspect the uploads problem this weekend may result in 'funky times' until AFTER the Tuesday outage catch up period. As to the Tuesday maintenance outage -- other projects may be designed to run differently. But the thing to note here is that this project is by far the most active of the BOINC projects, and so when something goes wrong, the system gets well and truely hammered. Then again, there are other BOINC projects out there so end users can support other projects to 'cover' for the *fragility* of SETI. Does this happen EVERY weekend or what?? I thought this was an established project? Most Alpha & beta projects are able to run without a weekly maintenance shutdown & a weekend server outage every weekend. So what gives?? |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14650 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Well, this is something I never thought I'd see: Kudos to Matt and the boyz for assembling a set of servers that can keep the network fully saturated through the whole weekend. |
SATAN Send message Joined: 27 Aug 06 Posts: 835 Credit: 2,129,006 RAC: 0 |
Richard, you must have been filthy. Was it your monthly bath? |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
Well, this is something I never thought I'd see: Ha! beat me to it (minus the duck) Bernie |
PRESTON SNEAD Send message Joined: 28 Dec 00 Posts: 1 Credit: 299,529 RAC: 0 |
Has anyone ever had this issue: 2/22/2009 6:12:07 PM|SETI@home|Started upload of 23ja09ab.25968.4980.6.8.156_0_0 2/22/2009 6:12:29 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 2/22/2009 6:12:29 PM|SETI@home|Temporarily failed upload of 23ja09ab.25968.4980.6.8.156_0_0: connect() failed 2/22/2009 6:12:29 PM|SETI@home|Backing off 4 min 15 sec on upload of 23ja09ab.25968.4980.6.8.156_0_0 2/22/2009 6:12:30 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. If so, is there a way to fix it so that I can get credit for it? |
Jack Shaftoe Send message Joined: 19 Aug 04 Posts: 44 Credit: 2,343,242 RAC: 0 |
Nope, never, no idea what you are talking about. /sarcasm... |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Nope, never, no idea what you are talking about. Give him his leg back. Everyone is havibg this problem at the moment. BOINC WIKI |
Keith Wortham Send message Joined: 10 Jan 06 Posts: 5 Credit: 5,992,626 RAC: 0 |
Is there any danger of this lasting so that I cannot upload my work units by the 10th of March? |
perryjay Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3377 Credit: 20,676,751 RAC: 0 |
Is there any danger of this lasting so that I cannot upload my work units by the 10th of March? No, it should be cleared by Wednesday by the latest. Then we can do it all over again next weekend. :) PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
Is there any danger of this lasting so that I cannot upload my work units by the 10th of March? Even if it does last that long, you would still get credit for them because nobody else could return them until then. |
Keith Wortham Send message Joined: 10 Jan 06 Posts: 5 Credit: 5,992,626 RAC: 0 |
Is there any danger of this lasting so that I cannot upload my work units by the 10th of March? I suppose that I should go back to my 15 year old Pentium processor so that we don't ask too much of their servers? I apologize. I thought that the purpose of this was to construct a large virtual supercomputer. Oh well, I will snail mail my results in. What is the US Postal address? The results will come in by media mail. |
Raptor Send message Joined: 23 Jun 02 Posts: 7 Credit: 1,385,878 RAC: 0 |
For some reason, my BOINC isn't recognizing my Internet connection. I've updated my antivirus and spyware as well as visited webpages. Even as I'm typing this I'm hitting the "Retry Now" button and it gives me that BOINC is unable to communicate with the Internet, please check your... I've never had to touch my net settings before in BOINC, its just started now....but what I don't get is that it did communicate with SETI@home just before this. Heres the message: 22/02/2009 9:44:55 PM|SETI@home|Computation for task 12ja09ad.18522.481.6.8.115_0 finished 22/02/2009 9:44:57 PM|World Community Grid|Restarting task E000433_762A_002g0500y_0 using cep1 version 628 22/02/2009 9:44:58 PM|SETI@home|Started upload of 12ja09ad.18522.481.6.8.115_0_0 22/02/2009 9:45:20 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 22/02/2009 9:45:20 PM|SETI@home|Temporarily failed upload of 12ja09ad.18522.481.6.8.115_0_0: HTTP error 22/02/2009 9:45:20 PM|SETI@home|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on upload of 12ja09ad.18522.481.6.8.115_0_0 22/02/2009 9:45:21 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 22/02/2009 9:46:20 PM|SETI@home|Started upload of 12ja09ad.18522.481.6.8.115_0_0 22/02/2009 9:46:42 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 22/02/2009 9:46:42 PM|SETI@home|Temporarily failed upload of 12ja09ad.18522.481.6.8.115_0_0: HTTP error 22/02/2009 9:46:42 PM|SETI@home|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on upload of 12ja09ad.18522.481.6.8.115_0_0 22/02/2009 9:46:43 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 22/02/2009 9:47:42 PM|SETI@home|Started upload of 12ja09ad.18522.481.6.8.115_0_0 22/02/2009 9:48:04 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 22/02/2009 9:48:04 PM|SETI@home|Temporarily failed upload of 12ja09ad.18522.481.6.8.115_0_0: HTTP error 22/02/2009 9:48:04 PM|SETI@home|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on upload of 12ja09ad.18522.481.6.8.115_0_0 22/02/2009 9:48:05 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 22/02/2009 9:49:04 PM|SETI@home|Started upload of 12ja09ad.18522.481.6.8.115_0_0 22/02/2009 9:49:26 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 22/02/2009 9:49:26 PM|SETI@home|Temporarily failed upload of 12ja09ad.18522.481.6.8.115_0_0: HTTP error 22/02/2009 9:49:26 PM|SETI@home|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on upload of 12ja09ad.18522.481.6.8.115_0_0 22/02/2009 9:49:48 PM||BOINC can't access Internet - check network connection or proxy configuration. 22/02/2009 9:50:26 PM|SETI@home|Started upload of 12ja09ad.18522.481.6.8.115_0_0 22/02/2009 9:50:48 PM|SETI@home|Temporarily failed upload of 12ja09ad.18522.481.6.8.115_0_0: HTTP error 22/02/2009 9:50:48 PM|SETI@home|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on upload of 12ja09ad.18522.481.6.8.115_0_0 Any ideas what I can do? Quick edit....it went back to saying the SETI servers could be down...just checked and aside from a validator (not running) and a few splitters(disabled) everything is green. |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
For some reason, my BOINC isn't recognizing my Internet connection. I've updated my antivirus and spyware as well as visited webpages. Even as I'm typing this I'm hitting the "Retry Now" button and it gives me that BOINC is unable to communicate with the Internet, please check your... You and everyone else. There is a plethora of threads on this subject at the moment. BOINC WIKI |
Raptor Send message Joined: 23 Jun 02 Posts: 7 Credit: 1,385,878 RAC: 0 |
Oh sorry, forgot to use the Search bar....thanks for answering though. |
Stoffe Send message Joined: 24 Mar 00 Posts: 11 Credit: 559,914 RAC: 0 |
Now what exactly is it that takes time now? Shouldn't the responsible be able to fix the problem or at least come up with at temporary solution in all this time? Wait until Wednesday... *roll eyes* |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Now what exactly is it that takes time now? Shouldn't the responsible be able to fix the problem or at least come up with at temporary solution in all this time? Wait until Wednesday... *roll eyes* It is the weekend. The staff is 3 people. They are NOT on call 24/7. If it is easy, they can dial in from home for a quick fix. If it is hard, it usually looks like: Monday: Diagnose problem. Tuesday: Fix problem, normal Tuesday outage is extended to cover added time for fixes. Wednesday: We are all recovering. BOINC WIKI |
Jack Zhang Send message Joined: 2 Jul 06 Posts: 206 Credit: 6,142,449 RAC: 0 |
All I'm doing is using my GPU to do folding until this is finally settled. Seriously, I think it's time for true Gigabit pipe for the servers. That 100mbps box has got to go and be replaced by fiber. What if Fiction was Fact and Fact was Fiction and vice versa? |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
All I'm doing is using my GPU to do folding until this is finally settled. Do you have the extra $100,000 in your pocket? The problem is a mile or so run up a hill... BOINC WIKI |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
All I'm doing is using my GPU to do folding until this is finally settled. What no lottery Millionaires to help with the last mile? The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Hanford WA4LZC Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 38 Credit: 10,129,207 RAC: 0 |
What no lottery Millionaires to help with the last mile? I was 2 numbers short of doing just that...... ;-( |
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