25/09/2010 10:19:27 AM SETI@home [error] Error reported by file upload server: Server is out of disk space

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Not looking good. Oh well, I'm on holiday for a week, so I'll be back in time for another (extended) 'outage'! You've just got to love it....

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Don't take life too seriously, as you'll never come out of it alive!

Time to dust off off some of those other BOINC projects I guess...I need to keep the house warm still!

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http://www.novascotia.com

I turned the p4 off yesterday for no work, I have 3 AP's good for 20 more hours and 5 MB left. Then milkyway gets to run free on the i7.

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Old James

I turned the p4 off yesterday for no work, I have 3 AP's good for 20 more hours and 5 MB left. Then milkyway gets to run free on the i7.

With an empty cache, it might be a good time for a detach/reattach to set them ghosts free... ;)

I turned the p4 off yesterday for no work, I have 3 AP's good for 20 more hours and 5 MB left. Then milkyway gets to run free on the i7.

With an empty cache, it might be a good time for a detach/reattach to set them ghosts free... ;)

Sounds like a good idea, but I think the scheduler needs to be able to respond for such an action. :p

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

Well one way we can look at it...with 500,00 MB and 25,000 AP's now we wont run out of WU's for at least an hour or so when it does come up...lol

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This SETI thing is getting all f'd up

Right now the project is suffering some growing pains...the new server will hopefully bring more stability...If you run out of SETI work just move on to another project temporarily until things get back online. You have been around long enough to have seen this go on before. It is frustrating at times but keep hanging in as things will get better I am sure!

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One thing has become very clear to me. Seti@Home is a dying project. These constant server issues (scheduled and non-scheduled) prove it. Fifty to seventy five percent of the time (or more) the servers are down for one reason or another. It may be time to pull the plug. My stated opinions will be very unpopular with many of you, but they have merit. How many of you really believe we will ever find alien signals this way? Other Boinc projects have gotten results. For instance, Einstein@Home recently discovered it's first radio pulsar. What has Seti@home found? I'm sure you all know the answer to this question. I will be ending my involvement with Seti@home. It's been a interesting/frustrating 11 years 5 months.

Vlad

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One thing has become very clear to me. Seti@Home is a dying project. These constant server issues (scheduled and non-scheduled) prove it. Fifty to seventy five percent of the time (or more) the servers are down for one reason or another. It may be time to pull the plug. My stated opinions will be very unpopular with many of you, but they have merit. How many of you really believe we will ever find alien signals this way? Other Boinc projects have gotten results. For instance, Einstein@Home recently discovered it's first radio pulsar. What has Seti@home found? I'm sure you all know the answer to this question. I will be ending my involvement with Seti@home. It's been a interesting/frustrating 11 years 5 months.

Vlad

If you look outside your window (instead of MS Windows) and take a look at the sky, try to imagine how big it is ;)
It can take another 100 years to find something, so I guess we are just at the beginning...
And I'll be around here as long as Seti is here (and my electric bills are paid)...

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One thing has become very clear to me. Seti@Home is a dying project. These constant server issues (scheduled and non-scheduled) prove it.

Constant server issues does not mean a dying project. It only means difficulty with the success of CUDA. The only way the project will die is if they do not have enough money to afford running the servers.

Fifty to seventy five percent of the time (or more) the servers are down for one reason or another.

Even if that were true (and it's not), I still don't recall a promise of higher uptime. They do what they can to keep things running smoothly. They don't need our pessimistic discouragement.

It may be time to pull the plug. My stated opinions will be very unpopular with many of you, but they have merit.

I can't speak to the popularity, but I can tell you your opinions really don't have the merit you think they do. Your opinions are particularly one-sided, even if shared by other frustrated people.

How many of you really believe we will ever find alien signals this way?

It's better than not looking at all.

Other Boinc projects have gotten results. For instance, Einstein@Home recently discovered it's first radio pulsar. What has Seti@home found? I'm sure you all know the answer to this question.

The difference is that SETI@Home can only have two answers: 1) We've found them! 2) We haven't found them.

Einstein is merely making other discoveries that don't require a singular answer (i.e. is there intelligent life out there). Big difference in goals, larger difference in comparing successes.

I will be ending my involvement with Seti@home. It's been a interesting/frustrating 11 years 5 months.

Vlad

I've been with the project almost as long, yet I don't suffer from the same frustration. I suppose it has a lot to do with my level of patience, realistic expectations, and an eye toward the bigger picture.

Good luck in your endeavors.

You know.. I do get frustrated. There been yet again a lot of unscheduled down time. And it would go a long way if someone from the project popped in and said "yes we are aware we have a problem.".

But there ARE a lot of changes being made, server swaps and upgrades and re-balancing, it is a very small wonder that more code has not gotten mis-placed, mis-routed, and just plain broken. The current outtage might simply be in IP routing, a cable in the wrong spot, or 1,001 other things. While it is frustrating, it is not surprising.

The full disks have been under-reacted to. This is not the first time they became an issue, and with more work continuing to be pumped out it is not likely to go away without some major changes. And major changes may mean more outtages. And the corrections might not be painless either.

So.. I will quietly grumble with the rest of the malcontents and wait. Fresh hardware is on its way. And more changes are in store. Take a deep breath, mutter dirty words and hang on.

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Janice

And it would go a long way if someone from the project popped in and said "yes we are aware we have a problem.".

Matt and Jeff have been doing exactly that lately, with a reasonable frequency.

And it would go a long way if someone from the project popped in and said "yes we are aware we have a problem.".

Matt and Jeff have been doing exactly that lately, with a reasonable frequency.

If there has been anything since this morning, I missed it.

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Janice

And it would go a long way if someone from the project popped in and said "yes we are aware we have a problem.".

Matt and Jeff have been doing exactly that lately, with a reasonable frequency.

If there has been anything since this morning, I missed it.

Does there really need to be more? Matt's post from Thursday pretty much addresses all these issues we've been having since they brought up the servers this week:

There have been some interesting unexpected consequences due to these extended weekly outages. For example, the amount of results hanging out in the mysql database has pretty much doubled (growing slowly but consistently over the past two months), which is causing minor indigestion: the database backups and re-orgs take much longer, and workunits and results are hanging out on disk much longer (and filling up their respective disks). But also some power users are trying to return hundreds, perhaps thousands, of results in a single scheduler request.

(My emphasis added)

And I still see no reason to be frustrated.

For instance, Einstein@Home recently discovered it's first radio pulsar.

Which isn't the primary thing for Einstein to search for; they only added that option 'recently' and it's an opt-in option. Their primary function, the one they get the grant for, is to find gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational wave detector. So far they've discovered none of those.

Compare that to Seti which has been collecting data for 11 years and has never checked through all the data they have collected whether or not the Wow! signal was actually present. As that's what they are doing now during those 3 days of outage, check for possible signals in the data, see what needs revisiting.

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Well, looks like we should be happy that upload disk is full.
There is simple solution for this problem - to free up space.
But if we could still upload tasks the second problem would become much more important - more and more hosts would have too many tasks to report in single request. While BOINC client can do partial upload, it seems it can't do partial report. That is, from some point host will be not able to report already completed and uploaded tasks at all.
So it's better not to upload anything until aleady uploaded tasks will be reported successfully and size of report transaction will be small enough.

While BOINC client can do partial upload, it seems it can't do partial report.

With the new scheduler in place, Vyper can attest that it does. It'll take your reports in blocks of 1,000 to be reported tasks.

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I have been more than happy with the info provided by Jeff, Matt, volunteer Scarab and Soft-spirit. Thanks. Enough to satisfy my curiosity and confirm it is not a problem at my end. Withdrawal symptoms notwithstanding, most of us value and appreciate your efforts. Keep up the good work. BTW It was helpful to have updated news on the homepage to save picking through the Notice Boards. Roger

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Rogerp
http://www.rogerparsons.info/

E pur si muove - And yet it does move (Galileo Galilei)

My Rig on a Bench has at the moment 2150 tasks to report and another 400 to upload.
It still has 2300 tasks in its cache and is continuing to crunch them,each day another 500 will be added.
It is in the top ten rigs so there are other rigs trying to report more tasks than it.
If there is a problem that power crunchers cause by trying to report to many tasks at one time,then a solution should be found sooner rather than later.
More and more rigs are starting to power crunch with the the new fermi cards.

Dave

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