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Matt Lebofsky Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1444 Credit: 957,058 RAC: 0 |
Okay then - after some extreme DBA this morning carolyn is now the master mysql database server and jocelyn is the replica. So that project is officially DONE! Actually, there's a lot of low-priority cleanup to deal with, but all the main plumbing is working and the projects are back up such as they are. Now all server side focus is on oscar. By far the most important thing to fix during this major long outage was our science database - getting a new mysql database rolling was just icing on the cake. But I guess we still need to finish making the cake. Most of our i/o bottlenecks over the past few years have been somehow linked to thumper (both as a database and file server) so getting this done is essential before we get back on line. Jeff found a comprehensive list of missing spikes (which I mentioned yesterday) and will begin inserting those. We'll then eat some turkey, then have an all-hands-on-deck week next week to get oscar going. We simply cannot get back on line before then, and so we're still looking at new workunits being generated a couple weeks from today at the earliest. I guess if we're really lucky it'll be sooner, but highly doubtful. I know we're anxious to get rolling again, but remember that when you're dealing with billions of rows of data (in the form of a terabyte of raw files), each step takes many hours no matter how clever you are or how fast you type. It's also easy to get lost in theoretical maximum speeds, which never take into account (a) the dizzying array of initial preparations before even starting, (b) actual speeds, (c) the many extra steps necessary when being careful (like backing up a database one last time before dropping a table containing a billion rows), and (d) unpredictable software/hardware behavior requiring us to go back to N steps in the cookbook and try again. - Matt -- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person -- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6658 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
May I congratulate you all on a job well done and on going! We are all proud to have helped you get new servers, and appreciate you giving us these valuable updates. You are all truely experts in your fields, and we will be here when the gates are opened. Thank you very much for your hard work and dedication! Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
perryjay Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3377 Credit: 20,676,751 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for the update Matt. By all means take all the time you need to get everything right the first time. We aren't going anywhere and as far as I know nobody is dieing from lack of work. We would like a few more pictures though if you get a chance. PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC |
soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6497 Credit: 34,134,168 RAC: 0 |
It will not be until Oscar comes online that we can do a real "let's see what this thing has got" for either. But I saw someone trying to give it a load.. 772 and it did not even blink. Janice |
Robert Ribbeck Send message Joined: 7 Jun 02 Posts: 644 Credit: 5,283,174 RAC: 0 |
No good no bad I'll believe what I see |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31015 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Thanks for the update Matt. Take the time needed to get it right the first time. Maybe then the staff can all take a complete Christmas New Years break and not have to run in one day to reboot. |
David Lambert Send message Joined: 21 Apr 02 Posts: 7 Credit: 3,012,995 RAC: 0 |
OHHH! I can't wait to get crunching again. |
zpm Send message Joined: 25 Apr 08 Posts: 284 Credit: 1,659,024 RAC: 0 |
Keep up the good work, you guys may as well try and launch the shuttle with all the trouble... it must seem like it. I recommend Secunia PSI: http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/ Go Georgia Tech. |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
Thanks for the update Matt, keep up the good work, Claggy |
Dirk Sadowski Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 5 |
Matt, thanks for the news! |
Swibby Bear Send message Joined: 1 Aug 01 Posts: 246 Credit: 7,945,093 RAC: 0 |
Let me add my congrats and thanks. However, I operate under the theory that there is no such thing as a stupid question, so here is mine: What is "extreme DBA"? Thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving (Thursday, for those outside the USA) |
n7rfa Send message Joined: 13 Apr 04 Posts: 370 Credit: 9,058,599 RAC: 0 |
Extreme Database Administration |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
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SMW Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 22 Credit: 29,285,238 RAC: 16 |
Matt, Thanks for keeping us in the loop. While we all want to be back running the data, we know that working through this is part of it. Thanks again, and have a GREAT T-DAY:) "It is better to be hated for what you are then to be loved for what you are not" - Andre Gide (1869-1951) |
Swibby Bear Send message Joined: 1 Aug 01 Posts: 246 Credit: 7,945,093 RAC: 0 |
Extreme Database Administration Thanks for the responses. (No, my question was actually the DBA part.) |
platium Send message Joined: 5 Jul 10 Posts: 212 Credit: 262,426 RAC: 0 |
I did not know EDA either so it was a good question to ask as, I,ve just had a computer a year, thanks to you lot I am learn every day |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34382 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
I´m just wondering. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22539 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
"Dropping a table with a billion rows" - it really doesn't matter if its a toy US billion, or a real UK billion, that's a big step. Lots of fingers crossed and rabbits' feet grasped, plus another backup..... When you see these figures it makes one realise why this job has taken so long. Hopefully in a couple of weeks w will see the new server twins in action. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Jack Zhang Send message Joined: 2 Jul 06 Posts: 206 Credit: 6,142,449 RAC: 0 |
I'm hoping any ventilation issues would be resolved before the servers come fully online. I'd keep it safe and make both servers very well ventilated and not on top of each other like in the final picture you took a few posts back. What if Fiction was Fact and Fact was Fiction and vice versa? |
Fred J. Verster Send message Joined: 21 Apr 04 Posts: 3252 Credit: 31,903,643 RAC: 0 |
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