Panic Mode On (40) Server problems

Author	Message
hiamps Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,971,319 RAC: 0	Message 1041724 - Posted: 13 Oct 2010, 14:30:36 UTC Already out of work, yea this Rationing really works. Guess if there aren't as many units the servers will be good? What a JOKE! Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons... And no good credit hound! ID: 1041724 ·

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14690 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874	Message 1041727 - Posted: 13 Oct 2010, 14:34:57 UTC - in response to Message 1041724. Already out of work, yea this Rationing really works. Guess if there aren't as many units the servers will be good? What a JOKE! No, no joke, reality. Just the same as you see on any freeway. They can esily cope with the light traffic at 3 am: but fill them up with rush-hour commuters, and everybody grinds to a halt. ID: 1041727 ·

Aristoteles Doukas Send message Joined: 11 Apr 08 Posts: 1091 Credit: 2,140,913 RAC: 0	Message 1041814 - Posted: 13 Oct 2010, 19:00:37 UTC this is not a problem, and certainly not a reason to panic, but do anyone know what has happened to stats, and will they work ever again? ID: 1041814 ·

Lionel Send message Joined: 25 Mar 00 Posts: 680 Credit: 563,640,304 RAC: 597	Message 1041980 - Posted: 14 Oct 2010, 6:17:38 UTC - in response to Message 1041689. I missed something? This week we don't have a 3 day outage? My machines have WUs for ~ 1 1/2 days, and get the famous: Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks Message from server: No work sent Message from server: This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress How they can get enough WUs for to bridge the 3 day outage? %-( From what I read we will be having a 3 day outage, as they have more plans to test Morks memory. The limits are still intact, so none of us are going to be able to load up. I could be wrong, but it wouldn't be the first time, nor the last. Steve Hmm, strange... I got about 5150 WU's for my Crunchy and now I get the message "This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress". That's enough for 10 days (a lot of VHARS) so I don't get it why some people don't get any work. When I look at tasks it says I have 13041 tasks, most of them are ghosts (and pending?)... http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5451977 didn't get anywhere near 5k wus...just got about 1k for each cruncher...enough to cover the outage (just) and yet i had the cache set to 10/10... ...damn that "limit on taks in progress"...it is annoying particularly after recent events ... would have been nice if they had opened the gates ... L. Jeff has stated that he intends to give us higher limits again on this week's run.... ...would have been nicer last week though ... oh well ... and it gives me something to look fwd to ... ID: 1041980 ·

kittyman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51519 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004	Message 1041985 - Posted: 14 Oct 2010, 6:34:52 UTC - in response to Message 1041814. this is not a problem, and certainly not a reason to panic, but do anyone know what has happened to stats, and will they work ever again? Oh, they shall work again, and nothing will be lost, everything done recently will be reported in one lump sum. It's just that with the problems over the last couple of weeks, Seti has not generated the stats dump to send to the 3rd party sites that keep track of such things. It's very access intensive on the database..... Hopefully soon after they come back up on Friday. If mork cooperates a bit. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." ID: 1041985 ·

James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54	Message 1042048 - Posted: 14 Oct 2010, 15:38:03 UTC LOL, All I want is a SETI@home lapel pin. Cant even buy that:) [/quote] Old James ID: 1042048 ·

kittyman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51519 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004	Message 1042050 - Posted: 14 Oct 2010, 15:41:44 UTC - in response to Message 1042048. LOL, All I want is a SETI@home lapel pin. Cant even buy that:) Geez, even I had to pay for the T-shirt.....LOL. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." ID: 1042050 ·

James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54	Message 1042052 - Posted: 14 Oct 2010, 15:43:05 UTC - in response to Message 1042050. LOL, All I want is a SETI@home lapel pin. Cant even buy that:) Geez, even I had to pay for the T-shirt.....LOL. Mark I would think you have earned a T-shirt or two:) [/quote] Old James ID: 1042052 ·

APCyberax Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Jun 01 Posts: 29 Credit: 24,078,024 RAC: 48	Message 1042089 - Posted: 14 Oct 2010, 17:15:34 UTC - in response to Message 1042058. work server is waiting to report 58 from the last 3 days. but it does have about 100 waiting to run so its set for 3-4 days ID: 1042089 ·

Aristoteles Doukas Send message Joined: 11 Apr 08 Posts: 1091 Credit: 2,140,913 RAC: 0	Message 1042095 - Posted: 14 Oct 2010, 17:26:14 UTC - in response to Message 1042039. Now I'm getting p'ed off. I've got more than 1.5 million SETI credits, and not one single online store will accept them as valid currency. I tried buying a Porche, but they laughed at me. I tried buying a Volvo, but they shunned me. I can't even buy a toaster. What's the use of it all. What's the use of the credits. I'm beginning to believe that I've been had. My 1.5 million SETI credits doesn't seem worth anything. If that's the fact, then I may be forced to sue, sue, sue.... try to imagine my problem when i get a raise to salary, and it was 3,6%, try to find something from the store which cost 3,6%, they all cost euro something. i had to settle to one bottle of beer, it was 3,8% alcohol, so it was close enough. ID: 1042095 ·

kittyman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51519 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004	Message 1042099 - Posted: 14 Oct 2010, 17:57:36 UTC Just shut the Frozen 920 down.....just finished it's last tasks. The rest of the crunching crew still have a little work left, although several will not last until tomorrow. The kitties will be sniffing for work in the morning...... "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." ID: 1042099 ·

Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 37556 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489	Message 1042146 - Posted: 14 Oct 2010, 22:17:31 UTC - in response to Message 1042099. Well it looks like my 3 pc's will make it through with about half a day or so work to spare. Cheers. ID: 1042146 ·

Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13	Message 1042196 - Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 2:48:46 UTC My main cruncher will make it through to this time next week. :p Love APs. Then the single-core cruncher has been offline since Sunday. Kept having weird issues where it would just shut off like the power was pulled. It would memtest for hours and hours, but boot the OS up and either it would die during the splash screen, or it would last 2-3 hours and then shut off. Five bulging caps next to the CPU socket. US$4 ebay auction for replacement caps and some soldering should fix it.. then it can continue working on its ~8 days of work. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) ID: 1042196 ·

Dirk Sadowski Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 5	Message 1042253 - Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 11:29:08 UTC I guess - like in 'Dinner for one': 'The same procedure as every year.' So (transferred to S@h) like always.. X-D ID: 1042253 ·

platium Send message Joined: 5 Jul 10 Posts: 212 Credit: 262,426 RAC: 0	Message 1042255 - Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 11:34:45 UTC - in response to Message 1042250. I have some wu's for a day so i will leave my uploading so others that have none to get some it may be the straw that saves mork breaking his back. he likes to rest a lot that why he hangs up. ID: 1042255 ·

kittyman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51519 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004	Message 1042263 - Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 12:14:49 UTC - in response to Message 1042250. In 4 hours and 40 minutes, give or take half an hour, we will again start fighting over uploads, reporting, and downloading of new work units. Follow this soap opera closely. Will mork crash/freeze today, tomorrow, or not at all? How many users will post this time that they will leave? How many users will actually leave? Another interesting weekend is in front of us... Ahh, yes...... Stay tuned for another thrilling episode of....'As the Seti Churns'. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." ID: 1042263 ·

Highlander Send message Joined: 5 Oct 99 Posts: 167 Credit: 37,987,668 RAC: 16	Message 1042340 - Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 15:45:27 UTC Last modified: 15 Oct 2010, 15:45:43 UTC cool, "resent lost tasks" is in action again (k, no DL with disabled DL-servers) but nevertheless nice to see. - Performance is not a simple linear function of the number of CPUs you throw at the problem. - ID: 1042340 ·

kittyman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51519 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004	Message 1042356 - Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 16:20:00 UTC - in response to Message 1042340. cool, "resent lost tasks" is in action again (k, no DL with disabled DL-servers) but nevertheless nice to see. Same here...just got 20 of them scheduled for the Frozen 920. Looks like the upload bandwidth has dropped to the point where they could start the download servers.....would be cool, 'cuz the Frozen one would like to get back to work and warm things up a bit again. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." ID: 1042356 ·

alan Send message Joined: 18 Feb 00 Posts: 131 Credit: 401,606 RAC: 0	Message 1042361 - Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 16:31:31 UTC - in response to Message 1042340. Do you mean that you are using a hack to provoke a resend of lost tasks, or that there is some option that I can't see? I've got seven ghosts that I'd like to regain. ID: 1042361 ·

Geek@Play Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 31 Jul 01 Posts: 2467 Credit: 86,146,931 RAC: 0	Message 1042364 - Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 16:36:39 UTC I got "resent lost tasks" on 3 of my computers for 20 wu each. Cool, get the ghosts. Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc.... ID: 1042364 ·

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