Usual outage day. Project goes down, we squeeze and copy databases, project comes back up. It seems the mysql replica is oddly unable to keep up with much success anymore. I think the cause is our ridiculously consistent heavy load lately thus keeping the databases busier than normal. Anybody have any theories about what is causing the ridiculously consistent heavy load? What's also a little strange is the CPU/IO load on jocelyn is low... so what's the bottleneck? I'd have to guess network, but it's copying the logs from the master faster than executing the SQL within those logs. So...?

And speaking of high production loads I also just noticed we're low on work to split. Prepare for tonight to be a little rocky as files are slow to transfer up from the archives and get radar blanked before being splittable.

By the way, the Astropulse assimilators are off because the database table containing the signals had one of its fragments run out of extents. In layman's terms it reached an arbitrary limit that we'll now have to work around. We'll sort this out shortly.

Kepler data is here in a big ol' box and being archived down to HPSS. It sure is nice seeing the network graph for the whole lab going from a baseline of ~50 Mbits/sec to ~250 Mbits/sec when we started that procedure. Too bad we're still currently stuck using the HE connection for our uploads/downloads. Maybe someday that'll change.

Sorry my posts continue to be intermittent. I apologize but expect things to get worse as the music career will temporary consume me. You may see rather significant periods of silence from me for the next... I dunno... 6 to 12 months? I'm sure the others will chime in as needed if I'm not around.

- Matt

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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Anybody have any theories about what is causing the ridiculously consistent heavy load?

Yes, you've been splitting practically nothing but "shorties" - very high angle range tasks, from a basketweave survey at Arecibo. Hang on, I'll get you the reference.

Edit - try my message 1112964. That covers most of it.

Unable to upload results,

first box reports: project servers may be temporarily down
second box reports: Internal HTTP server error

help!

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It's not too many computers, it's a lack of circuit breakers for this room. But we can fix it :)

Thanks for the update Matt,

Claggy

Bare with it Eaglescouter, mine tried and got a can't connect to server then turned around a minute later and got right through. It's catch as catch can right now as everybody fills up after the outage.

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

Thanks for the update Matt. So far, I'm running pretty good. I'm getting plenty of work, and so far, no problem uploading or downloading. Enjoy the music !! I play a little Hendrix at times. Takes my mind off of a lot of problems !! Thanks for sticking with the project. I appreciate your hard work.

Matt, thanks for the news!


- Best regards! - Sutaru Tsureku, team seti.international founder. - Optimize your PC for higher RAC. - SETI@home needs your help. -

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Break a leg! Or is that only for actors?

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It sure is nice seeing the network graph for the whole lab going from a baseline of ~50 Mbits/sec to ~250 Mbits/sec when we started that procedure. Too bad we're still currently stuck using the HE connection for our uploads/downloads. Maybe someday that'll change.

Thanks for the update Matt,keep up the good work. I glad someone/something opened the flood gates even though it may not last long, d/l usually moving at 3.67Kb - 15Kb taking hours just shot up to 88Kb - 347Kb and minutes.

I would have thought that Matt and the rest of the project staff KNEW they were sending out nothing but shorties. Guess not!

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Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....

My pet theory - re-try times are too short for the current "shorty storm". In previous existences I've found that the re-try rate can be very sensitive to the time-out time, small changes in that can have very substantial changes in overall throughput of a system.


On a more human note, enjoy your music career, and when are you touring the UK?

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

I would have thought that Matt and the rest of the project staff KNEW they were sending out nothing but shorties. Guess not!

Of course we know shorties are a major problem, but some other numbers just aren't adding up...

- Matt

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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

I would have thought that Matt and the rest of the project staff KNEW they were sending out nothing but shorties. Guess not!

Of course we know shorties are a major problem, but some other numbers just aren't adding up...

- Matt

No chance some viral meanie has crept into the works?

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

I would have thought that Matt and the rest of the project staff KNEW they were sending out nothing but shorties. Guess not!

Of course we know shorties are a major problem, but some other numbers just aren't adding up...

What numbers would those be, Matt? Maybe we can help, looking at it from this end?

I would have thought that Matt and the rest of the project staff KNEW they were sending out nothing but shorties. Guess not!

Of course we know shorties are a major problem, but some other numbers just aren't adding up...

- Matt

No chance some viral meanie has crept into the works?

But of course not! They're running *nix which eradicated viruses long ago, when the Earth was still cooling.

Did you find the bottleneck? I just got a herd of downloads and they are coming at me fast and furious!

Whatever it was, great job guys!

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

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But of course not! They're running *nix which eradicated viruses long ago, when the Earth was still cooling.

*nix is not immune to virii, but few people write viruses for *nix as the damage would be limited - and not as many people are P----d off at Linix or Unix due to them being almost free of cost, as opposed to M$ Windoze... but we're getting off topic...

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Hello, from Albany, CA!...

Something wrong with this batch of work units. I'm getting a ton of -9s. Was afraid it might be me but they are starting to validate against all types of other machines.

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

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But of course not! They're running *nix which eradicated viruses long ago, when the Earth was still cooling.

*nix is not immune to virii, but few people write viruses for *nix as the damage would be limited - and not as many people are P----d off at Linix or Unix due to them being almost free of cost, as opposed to M$ Windoze... but we're getting off topic...

Very far off topic. And the plural of virus is viruses. And Windows is spelled with a "ows" much like Linux isn't spelled with an "s" as in Linsux. And I don't think that people are pissed off with Windows because its not free. People don't write viruses for Linux because its not worth the small user base to put the amount of effort into breaking it.

Bare with it Eaglescouter, mine tried and got a can't connect to server then turned around a minute later and got right through. It's catch as catch can right now as everybody fills up after the outage.

I'm still here. Today my machines are unable to upload completed work.
"Project servers may be temporarily down"

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It's not too many computers, it's a lack of circuit breakers for this room. But we can fix it :)