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Message 1136043 - Posted: 4 Aug 2011, 21:28:25 UTC

Not that it's all bright and shiny, but how about I just report some good news?

Looks like we got beyond the issues with the mysql replica on jocelyn. Basically we swapped in a bunch of different qlogic cards (which we had laying around) and one of them seems to be working. We're also using a new fibre cable (this new card had a different style jack so I was forced to do so). So far, so good - it recovered from the backup dump taken this past Tuesday, and currently as I type this sentence only 21K seconds behind (and still catching up best I can tell). Of course, we need to wait and see - chances are still good it may hiccup like before.

And also finally there's some non-zero hope in the HE connection issues front: one tech there may have a clue about a router configuration we may need to add/update on our end, though I'm still unsure what changed in the world to break this. I sent them some test results, now I'm just waiting to hear back.

You may have noticed some of our backend services going down today. This was planned. The short story is we just plucked 48GB of memory out of synergy (back-end compute server) and added it to oscar (the main science database server). So now oscar has 144GB of RAM to play with - the greater plan being to see if this actually helps informix performance, or are we (a) hopelessly blocked by bad disk i/o, and/or (b) dealing with a database so big that even maxing out memory in oscar at 192GB won't help. In any case, testing on this front moves forward. The more we understand, the more we learn *exactly* what hardware improvements we need.

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Message 1136046 - Posted: 4 Aug 2011, 21:32:59 UTC - in response to Message 1136043.  

Thanks for the update Matt,

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Message 1136047 - Posted: 4 Aug 2011, 21:33:51 UTC - in response to Message 1136043.  

Cool Matt, thanks for the update and no so bad news this time.

Your efforts and those of others on this project are appreciated.
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Message 1136049 - Posted: 4 Aug 2011, 21:49:18 UTC

Thanks SO Much for the Good News Update Matt...Also Thanks for the HE update.
We (I) Appreciate the Hard WORK that you guys put into Our mutual Hobby/Work.
And the updates are nice too... ;-))

I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.)
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Message 1136053 - Posted: 4 Aug 2011, 21:59:39 UTC - in response to Message 1136043.  

That is the kind of science I can understand. Regarding Oscars overload, one question comes to mind: Can the database be split in two.. Science East/Science West for example?

May your test work well Matt.
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Message 1136056 - Posted: 4 Aug 2011, 22:23:40 UTC

Thanks for the update Matt and thanks to the SETI@home crew for all your long hours of hard work ... Best Wishes Byron.
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Message 1136080 - Posted: 5 Aug 2011, 0:22:20 UTC

Thanks for the update Matt and i hope the tests are successful. Nice to know where the bottleneck is so we can open up the pipe.

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Message 1136106 - Posted: 5 Aug 2011, 2:36:51 UTC

Thanks Matt ! Good news at last !! Glad that things are looking better. All my best to you and the crew !
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Message 1136175 - Posted: 5 Aug 2011, 7:10:57 UTC

Thank you for all the news bits, Matt.
Hope your RAM tests on Oscar are positive, and hope that your info from HE is correct and there may be a fix on the horizon for some unhappy users.

Meow!
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Message 1136742 - Posted: 6 Aug 2011, 14:15:56 UTC

thanks for the good news matt fingers crossed they all go well :D:D
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