Outage

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zoom3+1=4 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65745 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49	Message 1013123 - Posted: 7 Jul 2010, 5:59:21 UTC - in response to Message 1012998. Last modified: 7 Jul 2010, 6:00:22 UTC What was it?... Quintecalene? or something like that. Steve Quadrotriticale (probably misspelled) Yeah, I'm a geek. I've even got the Tricorder app on my Droid. ;-) No You spelled It right, So? Aren't We all? The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's ID: 1013123 ·

Hellsheep Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 12 Sep 08 Posts: 428 Credit: 784,780 RAC: 0	Message 1013142 - Posted: 7 Jul 2010, 7:59:32 UTC I'm glad everyone is a little cheered up. :) - Jarryd ID: 1013142 ·

ToxicTBag Send message Joined: 5 Feb 10 Posts: 101 Credit: 57,197,902 RAC: 0	Message 1013182 - Posted: 7 Jul 2010, 11:49:37 UTC Quick question, before servers went down for the 3 day outage i had 1300 tasks in download queue, will it start from where it left off when the servers come back up or have they been lost? Many Thanks ;-) ID: 1013182 ·

Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0	Message 1013183 - Posted: 7 Jul 2010, 11:53:01 UTC - in response to Message 1013142. I'm glad everyone is a little cheered up. :) I often find that life gives the choice of laughing or crying. Laughing is healthier, and doesn't make your mascara run. ID: 1013183 ·

Ingleside Volunteer developer Send message Joined: 4 Feb 03 Posts: 1546 Credit: 15,832,022 RAC: 13	Message 1013187 - Posted: 7 Jul 2010, 12:18:52 UTC - in response to Message 1013182. Quick question, before servers went down for the 3 day outage i had 1300 tasks in download queue, will it start from where it left off when the servers come back up or have they been lost? Many Thanks ;-) Any transfer, upload or download, will resume at the point they're at when the server is accessible again, so nothing will be lost in a 3-day outage. The exception is if the transfer has timed-out, this happens after 14 days if you're using an older client, or 90 days if resent client (v6.10.xx, possibly also v6.6.xx). Also, in case download can't be finished before deadline is over, resent clients will automatically abort the task, so most likely the download will be aborted at the same time. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." ID: 1013187 ·

ToxicTBag Send message Joined: 5 Feb 10 Posts: 101 Credit: 57,197,902 RAC: 0	Message 1013207 - Posted: 7 Jul 2010, 13:59:17 UTC Thank you Ingleside much appreciated ! ID: 1013207 ·

kittyman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004	Message 1013270 - Posted: 7 Jul 2010, 21:13:13 UTC Forums back up!!! Meow. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ID: 1013270 ·

Miep Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 23 Jul 99 Posts: 2412 Credit: 351,996 RAC: 0	Message 1013272 - Posted: 7 Jul 2010, 21:18:08 UTC It's just an illusion... It will all go away again... You are deep asleep... Carola ------- I'm multilingual - I can misunderstand people in several languages! ID: 1013272 ·

Josef W. Segur Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0	Message 1013282 - Posted: 7 Jul 2010, 22:25:05 UTC - in response to Message 1013270. msattler Posted 7 Jul 2010 21:13:13 UTC Forums back up!!! Meow. Hmm, it was down at 19:02 UTC when I tried to post. I don't think I spent more than 20 minutes composing the post, so estimate it was still up at 18:42. I wonder if the "database maintenance and backup portion of the outage" was really accomplished in less than 1.5 hours. I guess we'll know if the forums remain accessible to the restart Friday. Whine, without some change on the Cricket graph, how's a guy supposed to know what's happening! Sob! Joe ID: 1013282 ·

kittyman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004	Message 1013285 - Posted: 7 Jul 2010, 22:31:09 UTC - in response to Message 1013282. msattler Posted 7 Jul 2010 21:13:13 UTC Forums back up!!! Meow. Hmm, it was down at 19:02 UTC when I tried to post. I don't think I spent more than 20 minutes composing the post, so estimate it was still up at 18:42. I wonder if the "database maintenance and backup portion of the outage" was really accomplished in less than 1.5 hours. I guess we'll know if the forums remain accessible to the restart Friday. Whine, without some change on the Cricket graph, how's a guy supposed to know what's happening! Sob! Joe LOL....save this one in the annals of Seti. Joe whines...7/7/2010...a day that shall live in infamy forever. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ID: 1013285 ·

ToxicTBag Send message Joined: 5 Feb 10 Posts: 101 Credit: 57,197,902 RAC: 0	Message 1013474 - Posted: 8 Jul 2010, 16:37:46 UTC Hi all, as the last 3 day outage began i was left with 1300 tasks in my download list on one rig and 800 on another. Ingleside kindly informed me that the servers would pick up where they left off and i need do nothing, in this case there were no tasks with deadlines approaching so all was ok. My question is when the servers are sending wu's and just before they enter the outage period is it not possible to allow a small time period in addition to allow for downloading wu's allready in progress, not to send new work but just to help those with incomplete tasks to get the work? I understand the basics of how things work but not very knowledgeable on these matters as a whole just wondered wether it would be possible given that even if 1% of users where in the same situation thats an awfull lot of tasks not being worked on. Would be better to be helping than have 2 crunchers sat idle with a combined 2000+ tasks in download que. Thanks ;-) ID: 1013474 ·

perryjay Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3377 Credit: 20,676,751 RAC: 0	Message 1013493 - Posted: 8 Jul 2010, 17:01:31 UTC - in response to Message 1013474. Hopefully this is one of the things they are looking into. Remember, last week was a long weekend holiday and they were missing two of their key players.(Matt on vacation and Eric with a death in the family) The idea for starting up with a quota on downloads and slowly increasing it was a good one. They also started to allow uploads before releasing the downloads to help clear the congestion there too but they could not have anticipated the server failure. After that they just had to rally the forces to get us back up (on the 4th/5th of July) When they finally could open up on Monday they had to run full bore to get us as much work as possible before shutting down. From what I've seen from people talking about their stuck downloads, it would have taken forever to try to get them all cleared with the bandwidth as clogged as it was even without uploads still going. PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC ID: 1013493 ·

ToxicTBag Send message Joined: 5 Feb 10 Posts: 101 Credit: 57,197,902 RAC: 0	Message 1013503 - Posted: 8 Jul 2010, 17:17:29 UTC I agree the quota on downloads was a good one and helped even the field out for all, shame about that server though. I am all for the regular outage and hope it does help them to do some of the science etc, to be honest apart from this week i am starting to look forward to the outage, i can sit back let the machines do their work and not have to worry about constantly scanning for vlars and rescheduler. Thanks for that perryjay ;-) ID: 1013503 ·

Dena Wiltsie Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Apr 01 Posts: 1628 Credit: 24,230,968 RAC: 26	Message 1013519 - Posted: 8 Jul 2010, 18:17:29 UTC I am bumping my queue down by a day because my system took an extra day's of work that I don't need to have. I think they need to set 20 work units till the load is off the servers, then bump it up to something like 100 work units till the load is off the servers and then open it wide open for the last day or two. Many of us will need no more than the first 20 units but delaying to long is starving the power crunchers. A good solution would be if they could set the 10 day limit on the server to 4 days. That would keep people from getting to piggy with the work units while allowing everyone a chance to get what they need to last through the outage. ID: 1013519 ·

kittyman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004	Message 1013521 - Posted: 8 Jul 2010, 18:36:45 UTC - in response to Message 1013519. Last modified: 8 Jul 2010, 18:37:40 UTC I am bumping my queue down by a day because my system took an extra day's of work that I don't need to have. I think they need to set 20 work units till the load is off the servers, then bump it up to something like 100 work units till the load is off the servers and then open it wide open for the last day or two. Many of us will need no more than the first 20 units but delaying to long is starving the power crunchers. A good solution would be if they could set the 10 day limit on the server to 4 days. That would keep people from getting to piggy with the work units while allowing everyone a chance to get what they need to last through the outage. Before they can do that, they have to get the server side DCF adjustment thingy figured out.....and for anonymous platform too. Without that working properly for both CPU and GPU, any settings for cache are meaningless at best. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ID: 1013521 ·

kittyman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004	Message 1013574 - Posted: 8 Jul 2010, 23:50:05 UTC I see by the server status page that they have everything ramped up and running except the up and download servers... 428K ready to send... Kitties standing by. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ID: 1013574 ·

kittyman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004	Message 1013580 - Posted: 9 Jul 2010, 0:13:06 UTC - in response to Message 1013578. I see by the server status page that they have everything ramped up and running except the up and download servers... 428K ready to send... Kitties standing by. Heh, you beat me to it with 25 seconds Mark :-) Kitties are fast...... I think they're just teasing us with the pretty status page. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ID: 1013580 ·

Scarecrow Send message Joined: 15 Jul 00 Posts: 4520 Credit: 486,601 RAC: 0	Message 1013584 - Posted: 9 Jul 2010, 0:37:20 UTC Not as many splitters as there used to be though. Darn pilferage. ID: 1013584 ·

kittyman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004	Message 1013585 - Posted: 9 Jul 2010, 1:07:43 UTC - in response to Message 1013584. Not as many splitters as there used to be though. Darn pilferage. Should be enough to get the job done if they are not throttled.... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ID: 1013585 ·

SciManStev Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6652 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0	Message 1013586 - Posted: 9 Jul 2010, 1:10:22 UTC Any idea why the web site, and forums keeps coming and going? Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website ID: 1013586 ·

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