But maybe computers sold in other countries aren't equipped with such luxuary item as an off button.

There's always the breaker. Or the plug. If all else fails, there's usually a window (works best if you're not on the ground floor).

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Stats site - http://www.teamocuk.co.uk - still alive and (just about) kicking.

Well, I'm a SETI only person, and despite that I never run out of jobs. Keeping a reasonably high cache gets me through even outages that would last for a week or so (which never happens).

There's no reason whatsoever to get upset if I don't down or upload for a week.

And finally, should I run out of jobs totally, I know where my off buttons are located :-)

I was a SETI only person for quite a while, till I got interested in other projects that kept popping up. Your exactly right, a higher cache does weather through most, if not all, outages, unless SETI goes down for an extended period of time, like it has in the past.

And I totally agree with your last sentence, if nothing is flowing, shut it off. It will come back eventually. :-) I see no reason to be upset either my friend. :-) Happy crunching!

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i agree with you 100% it does no good to get upset when things don't go right,i've been with SETI since 07 i leave my computer running 24/7 with SETI running in the backround and go about other things checking in to see how things are going or not going once or twice a day.

I know the upload server is down, but shouldn't Boinc be able to connect to the project?

24/06/2010 12:58:17 Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
24/06/2010 12:58:17 SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
24/06/2010 12:58:18 Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

I know the upload server is down, but shouldn't Boinc be able to connect to the project?

24/06/2010 12:58:17 Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
24/06/2010 12:58:17 SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
24/06/2010 12:58:18 Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

In Matt's latest Technical News posting yesterday the 23rd, he said;

In any case, the main culprit was our disks filling up, so as I write this we're keeping the project down until major queues drain and the constituent workunit/result files can be deleted.

Both upload and download servers are down, as well as the feeder.i686. I guess you can't connect to the project when that happens.

No reason to be able to connect when you can't perform any actions I guess.

But both scheduling server and process are running (according to Server status), so I'd expect

23/06/2010 13:32:45|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
23/06/2010 13:32:45|SETI@home|Message from server: Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance
23/06/2010 13:32:45|SETI@home|Project requested delay of 3600.000000 seconds

as in the beginning of this outage. I like this message (and the delay) much more than the error messages and random delay.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

Neat aspect of having such a long downtime is that we can see how much bandwidth the forums and website alone use: avg 1.60 Mbits/sec
Cricket

I do hope they get the upload server enabled for a few hours before enabling the whole project... sort of a slow start-up. They'll easily max out bandwidth once fully online.

I dunno where the bottleneck is, but unless they can temporarily get some more validator horsepower online, this is gonna take a while.

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

Looks like the assimilation queue is real the bottleneck:

Workunits waiting for validation	      0     0	9m
Workunits waiting for assimilation	963,789	5,141	9m

Assimilation rate is some 50k/h, judging from scarecrow's graphs. So around 10 UTC on Friday till they've caught up.
Validation of WU rate seemed about 10 times higher.
On the upside there are more than 20k AP units ready to send.

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Carola
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I'm multilingual - I can misunderstand people in several languages!

Looks like the assimilators are punching out ~55,000/hour.
Data Table, last 7 days
{edit: great minds think alike, Miep} ;)

Ahhh....
So that horsepower needs to be launched in a little different direction then....

Meow meow.

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

Looks like the assimilation queue is real the bottleneck:

Workunits waiting for validation	      0     0	9m
Workunits waiting for assimilation	963,789	5,141	9m

That Queue is dropping(939,681 now)and suspect it will be way done before they turn the upload server back on

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Wonder how many of those 4.6 million results out in the field will hit the upload server when it comes back online?

Ok everybody, fingers off the buttons!! Let BOINC and SETI do there job when it comes time!! :-)

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

Wonder how many of those 4.6 million results out in the field will hit the upload server when it comes back online?

Today's word is "Avalanche".

Wonder how many of those 4.6 million results out in the field will hit the upload server when it comes back online?

This number slowly decreases also:

As of 24 Jun 2010 14:50:09 UTC

Results ready to send				158,484		21,179
Results out in the field			4,618,405	72,475
Results returned and awaiting validation	6,473,085	75,090
Workunits waiting for validation		0		0
Workunits waiting for assimilation		947,649		5,141
Workunit files waiting for deletion		46		0
Result files waiting for deletion		140		0
Workunits waiting for db purging		937,110		21
Results waiting for db purging			1,981,623	914

As of 24 Jun 2010 15:45:08 UTC

Results ready to send				161,415		22,761
Results out in the field			4,615,486	72,475
Results returned and awaiting validation	6,385,568	75,090
Workunits waiting for validation		0		0
Workunits waiting for assimilation		903,271		5,141
Workunit files waiting for deletion		11		0
Result files waiting for deletion		98		0
Workunits waiting for db purging		981,631		21
Results waiting for db purging			2,072,158	914

Uploads going in Just now started flowing!

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

Quick! Server Disk Space! Fill It Up!

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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.

Results received in last hour 61,673 1,272 0m Wasn't this 0 just a couple of minutes ago?

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

Rig on a Bench just started to upload about 1000 jobs hope there is some left to dowmload when it has finished.
Going to put kettle on for a cuppa and wait.
Shame Italy are going home but it was a good match.

Dave

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