I pushed my virtual kling-ons through & things seem relatively ok now.

May be coincidental, but my 3 day old download queue has completed. Set no new tasks three days ago.

Server Status page has frozen at 5 Jun 2011 | 7:20:45 UTC

I reckon that's 'Game Over' until Monday.

No everything's sticky atm.

I'm *trying* to establish stable production...

Server status shows all running, but the Gigabyte ethernet graph is right at the top of it's capacity all the time.

Yesterday I had a backlog of new SETI Enhanced 6.03 downloads, and cleared them slowly last night.

This morning the quads have a load of uploads refusing to go, and these are growing.

Unlike the slow catch up on the downloads yesterday, there seems to be no movement of the uploads.

Between last night and this morning something has changed or broken.

Will need to wait more than 24 hours for the team to rectify this I suspect.

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

Server Status page has frozen at 5 Jun 2011 | 7:20:45 UTC

I reckon that's 'Game Over' until Monday.

I´d agree Richard.

Maybe Matt give them a kickstart when he woke up.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

That's it for uploads- nothing's going through now.

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Grant
Darwin NT

That's it for uploads- nothing's going through now.

The duck got stuck in the drain.

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Or drowned...

At least the download servers will get a chance for that tea-break soon...

I'm surprised about the following message of BOINC which come from time to time since ~ 00:42 UTC: 'Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached' - after ~ 60 secs, IIRC normal this happened ~ 600 secs in past..

I tested this with my 420M laptop, also running v6.12.28:

04/06/2011 00:33:22 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
04/06/2011 00:33:22 | SETI@home | Reporting 7 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
04/06/2011 00:33:22 | SETI@home | [sched_op] CPU work request: 142292.84 seconds; 0.00 CPUs
04/06/2011 00:33:22 | SETI@home | [sched_op] NVIDIA GPU work request: 18929.68 seconds; 0.00 GPUs
04/06/2011 00:35:22 | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 48 new tasks
04/06/2011 00:35:22 | SETI@home | [sched_op] estimated total CPU task duration: 157672 seconds
04/06/2011 00:35:22 | SETI@home | [sched_op] estimated total NVIDIA GPU task duration: 21611 seconds

So extactly two minutes, but no timeout. Of the 48 tasks, 39 were shorties.

This is the log of the time in question:
03-Jun-2011 02:41:05 [SETI@home] Reporting 2 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
03-Jun-2011 02:42:02 [SETI@home] Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached


From ~ the time of your contact:
04-Jun-2011 00:25:50 [SETI@home] Reporting 5 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
04-Jun-2011 00:26:45 [SETI@home] Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached

04-Jun-2011 00:42:00 [SETI@home] Reporting 7 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
04-Jun-2011 00:42:58 [SETI@home] Scheduler request completed: got 20 new tasks


And from a few minutes ago:
SETI@home 04.06.2011 20:00:43 Reporting 3 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
SETI@home 04.06.2011 20:01:43 Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached

SETI@home 04.06.2011 20:19:11 Reporting 6 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
SETI@home 04.06.2011 20:20:03 Scheduler request completed: got 12 new tasks


All ~ 60 secs between request and answer.
I have only DSL light (384/64 kbit/s).

BTW.
I have set <max_tasks_reported>, the set value is higher than the reported - so this shouldn't be the reason that my report is ~ 50 % faster/shorter.

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Maybe inserting a few more tapes splitting into nothing but shorties right after bigger outage would cure the problem!

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It would appear there is life.

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Grant
Darwin NT

It would appear there is life.

Yes, but is it life as we know it?

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Carola
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I'm multilingual - I can misunderstand people in several languages!

It would appear there is life.

Yes, but is it life as we know it?

For a while there is was. Now it's half life.
No work to download (splitters not running), but at least all the uploads will clear quickly.

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Grant
Darwin NT

That sounds perfectly sensible.
Now let's sit back and watch the cries of "I'm not getting any new work", "why aren't I getting any new work", "my cache will run out in 9.5 days".......

If the staff have turned the splitters off, which is what the status "disabled" means, then they have taken a positive action because they want to do something to the servers the splitters are running on, so sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labours when they turn the splitters back on again.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

That sounds perfectly sensible.
Now let's sit back and watch the cries of "I'm not getting any new work", "why aren't I getting any new work", "my cache will run out in 9.5 days".......

Maybe we could start a sticky thread with all the answers to these questions from over the years since it seems we keep having to say the same things over and over. That way we just have to give a link to the thread when the questions come in again. :-)

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

That sounds perfectly sensible.
Now let's sit back and watch the cries of "I'm not getting any new work", "why aren't I getting any new work", "my cache will run out in 9.5 days".......

Maybe we could start a sticky thread with all the answers to these questions from over the years since it seems we keep having to say the same things over and over. That way we just have to give a link to the thread when the questions come in again. :-)

Why do you think I've been pondering writing a FAQ for those questions for the past year? :D Just to save myself the effort to keep repeating the answers. MAybe I need a prayer wheel as an avatar...

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Carola
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I'm multilingual - I can misunderstand people in several languages!

"I'm not getting any new work", "why aren't I getting any new work", "my cache will run out in 9.5 days"

LOL

Is boinc asking for work. have you checked on the ssp that work is available, have you chekd on cricket that work is downloadable. why is your chache so high.

I think that covers most ;)

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Carola
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I'm multilingual - I can misunderstand people in several languages!

"I'm not getting any new work", "why aren't I getting any new work", "my cache will run out in 9.5 days"

LOL

Is boinc asking for work. have you checked on the ssp that work is available, have you chekd on cricket that work is downloadable. why is your chache so high.

I think that covers most ;)

The Cricket graphs are not readily accessible - you have to know where to look (I didn't, until I saw the url posted in a forum message).

Maybe put a link/button on the home page, right next to the one for the Server Status page, so folks who bother to look at the home page can find it.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired