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Matt Lebofsky Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1444 Credit: 957,058 RAC: 0 |
Hello, world. Here's another random, non-comprehensive status update regarding our servers, quite possibly the last one before the end of the year. So what are we dealing with lately. Well, carolyn (the mysql server) seems to have some funky memory. Or maybe it's an overactive watchdog in the kernel. Hard to tell, but the warning messages we're getting aren't given us the warm fuzzies. Operations are more or less normal, so we're just keeping an eye on it for the moment (don't really want to do any surgery before the holidays). Meanwhile, it did have a standard issues CPU lock last week, requiring a hard reset and database recovery. However annoying (and it seems the modern day linux kernels are getting more and more prone to this sort of misbehavior) it's so far easy enough to recover from after hard power cycling the machine. We have to do this a lot on bruno (the upload/compute server) quite often, and oscar (the informix database server) the other day as well. Every time we eventually recover just fine. Also mysql-wise, we seem to be having performance issues that defy easy understanding and explanation. Maybe this is memory related (hope not), but probably just due to some black-box mysql internal bookkeeping. During some testing/tweaking I turned off the daily stats dump scripts, and (oops) forgot to turn them back on. So there was a period of 5-6 days without stats dumps. Sorry about that. Another thing we have to keep an eye on is server closet temperature. Seems like (without clear notification) we are already in "holiday energy curtailment" mode. With less people around, lab-wide environmental controls (which assist our server closet cooling) are ramped down to save energy. Makes sense, but that still means temperatures rise in our closet, which isn't happy-making. So far they only went up a degree or two on average. Just one more thing to worry about. Onto brighter news. The gang over at the GPU Users Group has been incredibly helpful to us thus far. They recently donated a 45 JBOD drive array, and as of today 28 2TB and 6TB drives (for this array and/or data transport to/from Arecibo). We'll use this, along with more drives to come and another whole server, to upgrade various parts of our current server backend in the near future: science database server storage, upload server, download server, and main BOINC admin/compute server... They are still collecting donations over at their site (see our donation page for a link to their paypal-based donation site) going towards this new hardware. Happy holidays, safe travels, and all that. See you in the new year... - Matt -- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person -- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
Thanks for the update Matt, and for all the efforts, Claggy |
Thomas Arnold Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 56 Credit: 61,046,144 RAC: 0 |
+1 Thank you very much for the update. They are always appreciated. And Happy Holidays, Bah Humbug, and all that too. And Here's to all the best for our Setiathome community for the coming year. We hope to make a difference. Tom |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31012 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Thanks for the update. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. |
Bob Giel Send message Joined: 11 Jan 04 Posts: 76 Credit: 5,419,128 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for the update Matt. You and the rest of the crew have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! |
MarkJ Send message Joined: 17 Feb 08 Posts: 1139 Credit: 80,854,192 RAC: 5 |
Hi Matt, Thanks for the updates. Its always interesting to find out what is happening behind the scenes. Question: The project is asking for one or more 240Gb (or larger) SSD's. Whatever happened with the Intel X25's? They must have died from too many IOPS by now. What are the new ones likely to be used for? Cheers, MarkJ |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
Thanks, Matt. We always appreciate updates, the more detailed the better. And have a happy holiday of your choice. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
Hi Matt, Hey Mark: I'll make a post over in the NC thread soon about the SSD's. Executive Director GPU Users Group Inc. - brad@gpuug.org |
RottenMutt Send message Joined: 15 Mar 01 Posts: 1011 Credit: 230,314,058 RAC: 0 |
the project went down for a bit, someone must be lurking. |
KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0 |
Umm, unless there's a good reason not to, could someone bring beta back up? . Hello, from Albany, CA!... |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
Umm, unless there's a good reason not to, could someone bring beta back up? +1 Claggy |
PERPLEXER ~ Thomas Huettinger Send message Joined: 25 Jan 05 Posts: 11 Credit: 395,156,213 RAC: 371 |
oh oh oh |
KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0 |
still waiting on Beta — dot, dot, dot... . Hello, from Albany, CA!... |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
still waiting on Beta — dot, dot, dot... I was hoping they'd left Beta down while they built v7 6.98 apps, But there's no sign of them yet, :-( Claggy |
KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0 |
last I have are 6.97 apps - 14 of which I'm trying to report! . Hello, from Albany, CA!... |
PERPLEXER ~ Thomas Huettinger Send message Joined: 25 Jan 05 Posts: 11 Credit: 395,156,213 RAC: 371 |
me fall down...but me not want... HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! |
musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2442 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
Happy New Year! Time is now 02:54 here. I had a bottle of vine last evening, so I decided to stay away from it tonight. Apparently an accident with the public fireworks downtown. Fortunately no-one was injured. And apparently some Chinese lights in the sky as well. Never mind. |
Ed. Krushenski (Mr. K.) Send message Joined: 30 May 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 8,065,988 RAC: 0 |
Hope you all had a happy holiday. Here's to the hope for MANY candidates this year. Also hope for solving of the wierd issues you have been having. Perhaps its voodoo, or Gremlins ???? Seriously, Happy New Year to all you folks. |
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