After nine hours of almost steady decline from peak on the network graph, it pegged somewhat over an hour ago, and has stayed there.

More unpleasantness?

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I don't think that everything is working well again..

After every work request I get only 1 new WU..

I hope before the next weekend the WU cache is full again.. ;-)

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Does anyone know why the neither AP_validate is running? They both say "Not Running" Expanation is "Program failed or ran out of work". I don't think they ran out of work.

They're both back online now ;-)

Have a look at what Matt says here.

Bernie

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Calm before the storm?
Work in progress is pretty much back to normal, however AP Turn Around time is still about 50hrs less than it was at the begining of the month. MB results received in the Last Hour are down, and the Turn Around time is about 20hours higher than it was at the begining of the month.
And the network traffic is now down to 40Mb/s, where as it was generally around 60Mb/s before the Great Storm.

Problems ahead or has the recent spell of longer work settled things down?

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Grant
Darwin NT

I can only speculate but,

After the storm, people got their cues filled up, the turnaround time started counting then, so on average the first results should be coming back after that time.

People with other projects as fall back got more WU's for them and are crunching those other projects for now but will get back to S@H when those are done.

My bet is that in a few days time things will get back a "normal" level.

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I can only speculate but,

After the storm, people got their cues filled up, the turnaround time started counting then, so on average the first results should be coming back after that time.

People with other projects as fall back got more WU's for them and are crunching those other projects for now but will get back to S@H when those are done.

My bet is that in a few days time things will get back a "normal" level.

Perhaps, the computers that were switched to other stuff,
or turned off, will not be back full duty, to crunching for Seti. ;)

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2/28/2009 2:50:36 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 53139 seconds of work, reporting 3 completed tasks
2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work can be sent for the applications you have selected
2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work is available for SETI@home Enhanced
2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse

So it sent me a WU and in the same second said it didn't have work? Maybe.
Then it says all in the same second:

2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: You have selected to receive work from other applications if no work is available for the applications you selected
2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: Sending work from other applications

Maybe the messages should be made a bit more human readable.

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2/28/2009 2:50:36 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 53139 seconds of work, reporting 3 completed tasks
2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work can be sent for the applications you have selected
2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work is available for SETI@home Enhanced
2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse

So it sent me a WU and in the same second said it didn't have work? Maybe.
Then it says all in the same second:

2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: You have selected to receive work from other applications if no work is available for the applications you selected
2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: Sending work from other applications

Maybe the messages should be made a bit more human readable.

How? It told you that it had no work for the two applications you have said on the preferences that you prefer, and it tells you it has sent new work, which was from a third application.

The point of confusion, I think, is that folks don't recognize that Astropulse and Astropulse v5 are two separate applications. But that is not a question of the human readability of the messages.

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2/28/2009 2:50:36 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 53139 seconds of work, reporting 3 completed tasks
2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks
2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work can be sent for the applications you have selected
2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work is available for SETI@home Enhanced
2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse

So it sent me a WU and in the same second said it didn't have work? Maybe.
Then it says all in the same second:

2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: You have selected to receive work from other applications if no work is available for the applications you selected
2/28/2009 2:50:41 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: Sending work from other applications

Maybe the messages should be made a bit more human readable.

How? It told you that it had no work for the two applications you have said on the preferences that you prefer, and it tells you it has sent new work, which was from a third application.

The point of confusion, I think, is that folks don't recognize that Astropulse and Astropulse v5 are two separate applications. But that is not a question of the human readability of the messages.

Well, if folks read it and folks don't understand it, that meets my definition of human readability (failed). The onus is on the communicator to transfer the information to the communicatee.

@ Gary,

Have a revisit with your SETI@home preferences page. You may not be aware that there's a third 'opt-in' option for the new "Astropulse v5" application that archae86 mentions, and it may not be set the way you want.

The "ap_validate2" indicates "Not Running". AP "waiting for validation" is growing.
Seems to be cropping up occasionally lately. Has been this way for a while.

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The "ap_validate2" indicates "Not Running". AP "waiting for validation" is growing.
Seems to be cropping up occasionally lately. Has been this way for a while.

Yes - Matt wrote about it in Mono (Feb 25 2009).

Yes he wrote about it, but if it was working correctly the waiting for validation shouldn't be increasing.

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Matt wrote about it again today in the technical forum

Once again not much hardware/server stuff to report. I guess the ap_validator "2" is failing due to seg faults. A fact that is obscured on the server status page (due to automatic parsing of configuration files) is that the ap_validator "2" does strictly astropulse_v5 workunits, while ap_validator "1" validates older astropulse workunits. In any case, I warned Josh, he's looking into it, etc. Probably a broken result file/database entry is causing it to seg fault and quit before doing very much.

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3/6/2009 2:39:59 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 106296 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
3/6/2009 2:40:04 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
3/6/2009 2:40:04 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work sent
3/6/2009 2:40:04 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work is available for SETI@home Enhanced
3/6/2009 2:40:04 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your settings on the web site.

Now I can panic.

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me@rescam.org

3/6/2009 2:39:59 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 106296 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
3/6/2009 2:40:04 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
3/6/2009 2:40:04 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work sent
3/6/2009 2:40:04 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work is available for SETI@home Enhanced
3/6/2009 2:40:04 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your settings on the web site.

Now I can panic.

Nah, that's normal. There'll be more work along in a second.

But "Current result creation rate NULL/sec NULL/sec"? THAT I can panic about.

3/6/2009 2:39:59 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 106296 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
3/6/2009 2:40:04 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
3/6/2009 2:40:04 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work sent
3/6/2009 2:40:04 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work is available for SETI@home Enhanced
3/6/2009 2:40:04 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your settings on the web site.

Now I can panic.

Nah, that's normal. There'll be more work along in a second.

But "Current result creation rate NULL/sec NULL/sec"? THAT I can panic about.

There was plenty of work to be found, but it was all at BETA.

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me@rescam.org

No DB dump today??

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Clk2HlpSetiCty:::PayIt4ward

No DB dump today??

Quick action by the Berkeley Boyz! There was a dump about 25 minutes after your post.

James.. same procedure as every year.. *

Ops.. no.. this was an other story.. ;-D



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I see the AP2 validator is up and running. I hope it stay's running for another 57 hours so i can send in my AP 5.3. Or I might panic then.

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