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Extended Outage August 3 2010 Problems
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Pappa Send message Joined: 9 Jan 00 Posts: 2562 Credit: 12,301,681 RAC: 0 |
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ex_brit Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 182 Credit: 431,839 RAC: 0 |
Pappa, Is this extended outage a permanent feature now? It's all very well, meanwhile peoples' machines are storing up thousands of work units ready to be sent and Boinc keeps trying fruitlessly of course every so often. Peter. Toronto, Canada |
evilspoons Send message Joined: 30 Jul 99 Posts: 50 Credit: 8,469,307 RAC: 4 |
I'm assuming this is why my PC has a zillion work units that say "uploading" and aren't going anywhere and I've run out of Seti WUs? Looks like I'll be entirely Rosetta for the time being... |
ex_brit Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 182 Credit: 431,839 RAC: 0 |
Exactly. Why the whole shebang has be taken down for several days every week is beyond me but I suppose they must have good reason. Peter. Toronto, Canada |
Blurf Send message Joined: 2 Sep 06 Posts: 8964 Credit: 12,678,685 RAC: 0 |
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ex_brit Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 182 Credit: 431,839 RAC: 0 |
Thanks I just started reading it actually. Wonder what Pappa means by 'Here is the next version'. Peter. Toronto, Canada |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
Wonder what Pappa means by 'Here is the next version'. He starts one of these threads after each 3 day outage. The theory is that this will help us tell if things got better, or worse, or just different. |
perryjay Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3377 Credit: 20,676,751 RAC: 0 |
Definitely different!! :-) PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC |
ex_brit Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 182 Credit: 431,839 RAC: 0 |
I see....I think...LOL Peter. Toronto, Canada |
Ian Green Send message Joined: 25 Jul 10 Posts: 24 Credit: 102,337 RAC: 0 |
When they want the WU, my machine will simply wait. I run the BOINC after hours so its no concern when I am working on some project or another. Last time I looked there was nothing to do and all of the tasks were completed. This is likely due to my GPU being relatively fast. I speculate that the servers are having problems and until the team can fix them I guess the completed WU file will sit and wait. |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
I speculate that the servers are having problems and until the team can fix them I guess the completed WU file will sit and wait. Check the notice on the S@H home page. The upload and download servers are off, every Tuesday AM to Friday AM. You're right, BOINC will upload your work when it can, all by itself. |
Ian Green Send message Joined: 25 Jul 10 Posts: 24 Credit: 102,337 RAC: 0 |
Seem to be a lot of server issues, I wonder if everything is working OK. |
Pappa Send message Joined: 9 Jan 00 Posts: 2562 Credit: 12,301,681 RAC: 0 |
To answer some of the questions. The exteneded outages are to upgrade Servers and to Finish getting NITPCKR running full time. The normal weekly outaged was used to uncrash whatever server issue and there was no time to find the root cause. Many Servers had different OS's that could be a contributing factor. Matt has noted that he plans to shift a new Server in place and then start balancig the resources (which means smoother operations). The other part is Seti is receiving new code that accounts for different Duration Correction Factor (DCF) for different resources CPU/GPU. The short story is as we come out the other end of the tunnel things will be more accurate. Many things are happening that I am aware of and others that I am not. I do know that Jeff/Matt have attempted to keep us abreast of some changes but we do not know the full impact. The Full impact can only be known after the extended outage. Each outage is different. These threads are an effort to setup where any of the Staff can look and not crash the Boinc DB which runs these forums (it also is part of Uploads/Downloads and Scheduler requests). The other part is someone attempting tell of a problem. The NC Forum is where to report that, not a post in the Tech news. Here you can get help that does not take staff time to look at something easily solved. To be hoest, they do not have the Time or the Moeny (Seti) to tell you to reboot your computer. Users do that taking time d care. So there is a lot happening, there are a few that are reporting back according to what You say. Regards Pappa Please consider a Donation to the Seti Project. |
VK1PE Send message Joined: 19 Apr 01 Posts: 9 Credit: 1,676,526 RAC: 0 |
I can live with the project needing to do upgrades. That's fine by me! I have my own Outage avoider: Years ago I set my "Additional work buffer" to 10 days (the maximum) so I always have WUs. Peter |
ex_brit Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 182 Credit: 431,839 RAC: 0 |
Thanks Pappa. Peter. Toronto, Canada |
Ray_GTI-R Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 56 Credit: 276,906 RAC: 0 |
I'm a recently returned, long-time, pre-BOINC SAH cruncher. News is helpful. Server upgrades are inevitable. Unravelling issues can take forever. Maybe a new approach is needed? Meanwhile ... I recently added 2 more (home) PC's so I knew, as a recent "new" starter, about the 3-day nothing-happens situation My initial return-to-SAH via BIONC was not helpful. Picture this:- At first installation ... nothing's happening just lots of entries in BOINC messages about unable to connect to server. Check/re-install/repair. No joy. Then a quick check of other forum messages and a PM to a very helpful cruncher relaxed me. The problem wasn't mine. How many people join on a "Tuesday morning" (evening where I live) try, try again, then again maybe days later then just give up? One simple Message via BOINC would keep people happy ... maybe "Planned project outage started (date/time). Planned resume expected (date/time)" i.e., not your fault, don't spend hours/days trying to sort out a solution for a problem that doesn't exist or bother other crunchers who may/may not reply. Just trying to be helpful here! The difference between 0 and 1 is greater than the difference between 1 and 1,000,000 |
AllenIN Send message Joined: 5 Dec 00 Posts: 292 Credit: 58,297,005 RAC: 311 |
Pappa, Any idea why they keep everything down overnight on Thursday. Seems that once they stop doing whatever they are doing on Thursday, they might just as well fire it back up for the evening. Seems that my dual processor machine never has enough WU's to make it through the shutdown and I'm already set for 10 days. Allen |
B-Man Send message Joined: 11 Feb 01 Posts: 253 Credit: 147,366 RAC: 0 |
I'm a recently returned, long-time, pre-BOINC SAH cruncher. Looking at messages posted on the BOINC dev forums it looks like BOINC project messages are being looked at. I think it would be a good idea but it is still being looked at and questions about how to implement. |
Ian Green Send message Joined: 25 Jul 10 Posts: 24 Credit: 102,337 RAC: 0 |
I am a C++ developer and I have experience with Windows and Linux if you guys are stuck. I use Ubuntu for my own server appliance as its got a huge community of users that make their forum very helpful. I am planning to use a few servers soon for backup purposes as USB disks are limited in some respects. |
Pappa Send message Joined: 9 Jan 00 Posts: 2562 Credit: 12,301,681 RAC: 0 |
I'm a recently returned, long-time, pre-BOINC SAH cruncher. Ray, Welcome Home! There have been so many things that have changes since Seti Classic. So as will be mentioned in another post many things are being worked on on the Server and the Boinc Client level. I will leave that there for now. Regards Please consider a Donation to the Seti Project. |
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