Hello PerryJay,

i have to "Push" Uploads by "Try again" Button. Boinc Software does not send ready Packages automatic to Seti Server.
Greets Gerhard

The servers are still very busy and it is hard to get uploads through. It will probably be this way for at least a day or two. Especially since tomorrow is maintenance day. Your uploads should start going through on there own before long.

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

We all know the limitations of the connections to the servers, until the university change this is or SETI is "outsourced" to a better connection, then problems will occur. I don't care about RAC, I care about being part of a project that may ultimately make a difference to everyone on this planet. The question of "are we alone?"

I dont have the resources to be able to make a mega-cruncher machine, so am happy with what I can do on my resources available, crunching away 24/7 and if I run out of work, ah well.

The point being, things do get sorted at some point, the guys know what needs to be done but they are also busy doing other stuff, that probably 99.9% of us will never see/ know about behind the scenes.

If Matt is busy with his music career over summer and doesn't post then that is his choice, updates about his music career perhaps in Cafe Seti would take our minds off any problems. Some of the pictures Matt has posted of his hiking vacations have been spectacular scenery and well worth looking at.

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So the all important Kepler data sits in a box being "pre-processed and crudley analyzed?

It seems priorities are akilter in SETI's lab. I'm sorry so little funding is allocated and that the staff is but part time. Recommend they focus sharply and perhaps allow volunteer's to write stuff up with a a daily tech brief to the chosen authors. This would releive the staff from the tedium of keeping the people who are processing the data for the project informed as to what's about..

Let's load up the KEPLER data and process it and put the other stuff on the back burner for later.

One mans humble opinion...

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Never engage stupid people at their level, they then have the home court advantage.....

Hi all,

the last days are really boring. The upload does not function and if it works a lot of my Results are lost anywhere in the Net. My Computers are running all Day and Night. But there is no raise in Points. I hope Seti will soon solve this problem.
Greets Gerhard

Nothing is lost in the Inet. ;-)

If BOINC ULed successful a result it's on the main database.

Currently the replica database is offline, from there the hosts/WUs/results lists are shown/updated.

server status page


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

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The cricket graph again shows that the upload server is down. The status page shows it up.
I agree that the SETI staff should let a volunteer write the system status to keep the volunteer crunchers informed.

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David Moritz

[quote}I'll give Eric a call right away. I'm sure he'll be delighted to hear that there are in fact intelligent lifeforms installing BOINC and crunching data and not the robotic pirate super squirrels he previously theorized.[/quote]


You got something against us robotic pirate super squirrels?!?!
**said as I adjust the Big S and sub Q on my chest**

:)

Kevin

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"Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

The cricket graph again shows that the upload server is down. The status page shows it up.
I agree that the SETI staff should let a volunteer write the system status to keep the volunteer crunchers informed.

The SETI staff is lucky that some volunteer crunchers keep reminding other volunteer crunchers that there's a "use-by date" on the server status page.

AND PLEASE STOP POSTING ON A MONTH-OLD NEWS THREAD!!

Sorry for shouting, but it starts getting really annoying that the posts have nothing to do with the topic of the thread.

Gruß,
Gundolf

AND PLEASE STOP POSTING ON A MONTH-OLD NEWS THREAD!!

Sorry for shouting, but it starts getting really annoying that the posts have nothing to do with the topic of the thread.

Well, Gundolf, it looks like the posters simply check for the latest time noted for a comment on a likely thread. Ahh..., as I do. However, I tend to restrain myself from commenting and just read about the problems others are having. (And usually only when I am suffering problems on my end.) This lets me know that SETI has had some glitches and I'm not alone with being unable to upload, D/L, and so forth. Misery does love company, after all. LOL! I do agree with you that it's better to choose the appropriate board for the subject if one wishes to actually make a comment.

However, if SETI has a long enough downtime, I hope the crunchers will contribute to the other, worthwhile, distributed computing projects like Einstein, Climate, or whatever science project piques their interest.

It's my personal feeling that if more cycles were spread out with other projects, SETI wouldn't be as overloaded. And if one only desires to participate in a single project I recommend not with LHC. ;-P

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The cricket graph again shows that the upload server is down. The status page shows it up.
I agree that the SETI staff should let a volunteer write the system status to keep the volunteer crunchers informed.

The SETI staff is lucky that some volunteer crunchers keep reminding other volunteer crunchers that there's a "use-by date" on the server status page.

AND PLEASE STOP POSTING ON A MONTH-OLD NEWS THREAD!!

Sorry for shouting, but it starts getting really annoying that the posts have nothing to do with the topic of the thread.

Gruß,
Gundolf

Maybe if we ask nicely (or start using the red-x), the MODs will police the NEWS and TECH NEWS forums a little more strictly, and move some of the off-topic posts to the appropriate threads in Number Crunching (8{)

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Maybe if we ask nicely (or start using the red-x), the MODs will police the NEWS and TECH NEWS forums a little more strictly, and move some of the off-topic posts to the appropriate threads in Number Crunching (8{)

Motion seconded.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

The cricket graph again shows that the upload server is down. The status page shows it up.
I agree that the SETI staff should let a volunteer write the system status to keep the volunteer crunchers informed.

The SETI staff is lucky that some volunteer crunchers keep reminding other volunteer crunchers that there's a "use-by date" on the server status page.

AND PLEASE STOP POSTING ON A MONTH-OLD NEWS THREAD!!

Sorry for shouting, but it starts getting really annoying that the posts have nothing to do with the topic of the thread.

Gruß,
Gundolf

Actually an 8 day old news thread started on 14 June

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Actually an 8 day old news thread started on 14 June

Oops

I had just been reading "storage service is back up", which is almost a month old.

Nevertheless, I think my complaint adequate for both threads.

Gruß,
Gundolf

The cricket graph again shows that the upload server is down. The status page shows it up.
I agree that the SETI staff should let a volunteer write the system status to keep the volunteer crunchers informed.

The SETI staff is lucky that some volunteer crunchers keep reminding other volunteer crunchers that there's a "use-by date" on the server status page.

AND PLEASE STOP POSTING ON A MONTH-OLD NEWS THREAD!!

Sorry for shouting, but it starts getting really annoying that the posts have nothing to do with the topic of the thread.

Gruß,
Gundolf

Actually an 8 day old news thread started on 14 June

...And the latest thread in "Tech News", and therefore the thread most likely to be read by the Staff...

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Hello, from Albany, CA!...

Well Matt, it looks like you got a pretty hardcore fanbase goin' here. I just hope your other groupies are better looking than this lot;)

Sticking to technical news to at least some degree, I notice over the past 2 days the cricket is giving an unusual pattern showing a moment of 'downtime' after regular periods, say every 2 hours. What's causing this?

The cricket graph again shows that the upload server is down. The status page shows it up.
I agree that the SETI staff should let a volunteer write the system status to keep the volunteer crunchers informed.

The SETI staff is lucky that some volunteer crunchers keep reminding other volunteer crunchers that there's a "use-by date" on the server status page.

AND PLEASE STOP POSTING ON A MONTH-OLD NEWS THREAD!!

Sorry for shouting, but it starts getting really annoying that the posts have nothing to do with the topic of the thread.

Gruß,
Gundolf

Maybe if we ask nicely (or start using the red-x), the MODs will police the NEWS and TECH NEWS forums a little more strictly, and move some of the off-topic posts to the appropriate threads in Number Crunching (8{)

I think the staff are reading these posts and do their own cleanup. You are welcome to use the red x thou.

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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Seti Ambassador
Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

Sticking to technical news to at least some degree, I notice over the past 2 days the cricket is giving an unusual pattern showing a moment of 'downtime' after regular periods, say every 2 hours. What's causing this?

For whatever reasons, the splitters seem to be unable to work fast enough to maintain a 'ready to send' cache. So at times, there is little work going out.
Thus, the 'feathering' seen on the Cricket graph.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

For whatever reasons, the splitters seem to be unable to work fast enough to maintain a 'ready to send' cache. So at times, there is little work going out.
Thus, the 'feathering' seen on the Cricket graph.

Yes but look at the in progress graph on the server graphs page, the last 96 Hrs graph shows a steady increase with no fluctuations, the slope of the graph seems to be as steep as when the pipe has been maxed.

Is the pipe able to handle this load easier than being maxed with all the network problems.

If everyone is getting some work does it matter if us faster users take a little bit longer to fill our caches to our prefured levels?

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Kevin

For whatever reasons, the splitters seem to be unable to work fast enough to maintain a 'ready to send' cache. So at times, there is little work going out.
Thus, the 'feathering' seen on the Cricket graph.

Yes but look at the in progress graph on the server graphs page, the last 96 Hrs graph shows a steady increase with no fluctuations, the slope of the graph seems to be as steep as when the pipe has been maxed.

Is the pipe able to handle this load easier than being maxed with all the network problems.

If everyone is getting some work does it matter if us faster users take a little bit longer to fill our caches to our prefured levels?

I won't complain. At least when some work is assigned, the downloads seem to be going through straight off.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Sticking to technical news to at least some degree, I notice over the past 2 days the cricket is giving an unusual pattern showing a moment of 'downtime' after regular periods, say every 2 hours. What's causing this?

For whatever reasons, the splitters seem to be unable to work fast enough to maintain a 'ready to send' cache. So at times, there is little work going out.
Thus, the 'feathering' seen on the Cricket graph.

Maybe that's by design, something they did to make the ageing Bruno's life a bit less stressful.

I think it's more of a sign of some other issue.
The master DB queries per second graph shows there's been a lot of activity there since the last outage. In the past if the number of Queries per second is over around 600, the splitters get bogged down. And that has pretty much been the case since the last outage- it's been averaging over 800.

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Grant
Darwin NT