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Message 1058854 - Posted: 22 Dec 2010, 21:25:56 UTC

Everything on the oscar-raid-restripe project went along swimmingly, and I was able to take care of several steps at home last night so that we could get the whole project back online in the morning today.

Funny aside #1: at the exact moment I was finally comfortable enough to issue the command that blew away the old raid device from my home terminal, the network connectivity in my house randomly disappeared. Needless to say this incited minor panic as I suddenly couldn't reach any SETI servers and thought I must have somehow locked up the whole server closet. Eventually I figured out it was a local problem, my home router rebooted itself and I was back in business. Phew.

Funny aside #2: turns out when I installed the OS on oscar/carolyn I didn't bother removing the NetworkManager package, which gets installed by default for reasons beyond my power of conception. I've ranted about this before but it seems the only reason NetworkManager exists is to generate completely random, unexpected, obfuscated network problems on systems in order to give network administrators (a) something to do to kill time, and (b) ensure job security. In this case, without cause or prior consent it added funny loopback address statements in /etc/hosts which caused remote informix connections to fail. I immediately removed NetworkManager at that point and added a "exclude=NetworkManager*" line to yum.conf (which I should have done before).

Anyway, right off the bat there seems to be at least some improvement with the smaller stripe size on the raid, but we're collecting i/o stats under load and have some tweaks in mind which may continue to help general performance. All told, this ended up just being a one-day outage well worth taking.

Meanwhile, upon turning everything back on mysql started exhibiting some old, bad habits. I haven't seen this behavior in a long while, but sometimes when it gets hit hard enough it says, "Yo! Back off! In fact, I'm going to block all incoming queries and write to disk for 10-20 minutes. I won't tell you why, and there's nothing you can do about it." Fair enough - but if you were having trouble reaching the website an hour ago, that's the reason.

That's pretty much it for this week. It's officially the Xmas holiday starting tomorrow. Whatever you choose to do, enjoy! I'll be checking in from home over the "time off," but we're hoping it's kind of a "set it and forget it" kind of weekend instead of an "oh well everything will be down until we return on Monday" kind of weekend.

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Message 1058857 - Posted: 22 Dec 2010, 21:32:36 UTC - in response to Message 1058854.  

Thanks for the update Matt, and have a Merry Christmas,

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Message 1058858 - Posted: 22 Dec 2010, 21:33:21 UTC - in response to Message 1058854.  

Sounds like you've kept busy. Heck you've earned 4 day weekend.


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Message 1058859 - Posted: 22 Dec 2010, 21:34:47 UTC - in response to Message 1058854.  

Matt,

Thank for the update!! Oscar is sure proving his worth with the re-striping and re-loading of science DB. That thing sure is fasssst!!. We might have to replace all of the other servers just to keep up with him and Carolyn. Any idea of an ETA of the third server?

Keep of the good work and have a very joyful Christmas!!
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Message 1058860 - Posted: 22 Dec 2010, 21:35:02 UTC

Aww how nice, we got early servers back for Xmas.. And we did not get you anything :(

Enjoy your holiday!
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Message 1058875 - Posted: 22 Dec 2010, 21:58:50 UTC

Merry Christmas Matt, we all do really appreciate the work you all do. Despite sometimes being a bit grumpy :-)

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Message 1058886 - Posted: 22 Dec 2010, 22:32:26 UTC - in response to Message 1058875.  

Merry Christmas Matt, we all do really appreciate the work you all do. Despite sometimes being a bit grumpy :-)

Bernie

What Bernie said!!! ;-]

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Message 1058887 - Posted: 22 Dec 2010, 22:32:55 UTC

Merry Christmas Matt and the rest of the staff.

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Message 1058888 - Posted: 22 Dec 2010, 22:32:59 UTC - in response to Message 1058875.  

Merry Christmas Matt and all the gang there at SETI. Enjoy your holidays and here's hoping we won't have to see you before Monday.


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Message 1058895 - Posted: 22 Dec 2010, 22:51:50 UTC
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Merry Christmas to the
Entire Staff at Boinc/Seti


You earned it and thanks......................from all of us!
Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....
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Message 1058898 - Posted: 22 Dec 2010, 22:57:45 UTC

Nice work Matt and folks at the lab. From my family to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas!
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Message 1058935 - Posted: 23 Dec 2010, 0:46:25 UTC - in response to Message 1058854.  

Matt, thanks for the news!


Merry Christmas and happy and relaxing holidays to the SETI@home crew, all members, not members and aliens out there!



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Message 1058939 - Posted: 23 Dec 2010, 0:57:25 UTC
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Simply ROFLMAO....

Matt, I have not read such a hilarious bit in years.
Excepting the part where you thought you had crashed the whole closet...LOL.
Even sys admins have a good day once in a while....

You and the whole Seti staff have a great holiday.
If it breaks itself while you are celebrating, it'll wait.
The birth of Jesus only comes around once a year.

Merry for Chirstmas...from Mark and the kitties.

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Message 1058946 - Posted: 23 Dec 2010, 1:13:36 UTC

Funny aside #1: at the exact moment I was finally comfortable enough to issue the command that blew away the old raid device from my home terminal, the network connectivity in my house randomly disappeared. Needless to say this incited minor panic as I suddenly couldn't reach any SETI servers and thought I must have somehow locked up the whole server closet. Eventually I figured out it was a local problem, my home router rebooted itself and I was back in business. Phew.


This is so cool! Even the best get bitten once in a while.


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Message 1058982 - Posted: 23 Dec 2010, 2:58:54 UTC - in response to Message 1058946.  

Thanks for the update and enjoy the holiday.

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Message 1059023 - Posted: 23 Dec 2010, 5:56:53 UTC

is the beta project going to be brought back up? it's kicking up a message it's still down for maintenance.
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Message 1059030 - Posted: 23 Dec 2010, 7:02:17 UTC

I'll second the question about the Beta project. Any plans to bring it back online.

2nd Hope the staff has a wonderful christmas holiday. May it all run smoothly over the weekend with no staff intervention needed.
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Message 1059034 - Posted: 23 Dec 2010, 7:45:32 UTC


Merry Christmas Matt, Jeff and all others at the lab.



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Message 1059056 - Posted: 23 Dec 2010, 9:26:54 UTC - in response to Message 1058854.  

Rest ye merry, gentlemen.
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Message 1059075 - Posted: 23 Dec 2010, 10:48:25 UTC - in response to Message 1058854.  

...

That's pretty much it for this week. It's officially the Xmas holiday starting tomorrow. Whatever you choose to do, enjoy! I'll be checking in from home over the "time off," but we're hoping it's kind of a "set it and forget it" kind of weekend instead of an "oh well everything will be down until we return on Monday" kind of weekend.

- Matt


LOL

We all hope the second part become not true. :D

However - Merry Christmas to you, your Family and the whole Staff!

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