First post in six days! Now back to crunching! (maybe)

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My Computers:
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â–ˆ Green Offline
â–ˆ Red Offline

Yes... what's up with this outage? A week due to a power failure?

Didn't we get them extra UPS the last time?

At least there is Life again on planet Seti
Now see if wu's can come my way...

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What I do know (after reading other forums) backup/replica database was/is biggest problem.

Last SSP shows that carolyn is disabled.

Well the cricket is rising

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First post in six days! Now back to crunching! (maybe)

O.K. BIG Iron!!

this little Atom never finished it's queue ... still crunching old stuff :-) still happy

Ed F

Yes... what's up with this outage? A week due to a power failure?

Didn't we get them extra UPS the last time?

The power went down and the array on the database server decided it was degraded, so it went through a mandatory rebuild which took much longer than expected. Once that was completed, it was expected that the database itself could be restored from a backup in a short period of time, but that, too, took longer than expected.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

At least there is Life again on planet Seti
Now see if wu's can come my way...

All three of my machines have reported. The two small ones still have old work left. The i7 has been assigned ONE new WU. (Perhaps it realizes it has too much Einstein on board again.)

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

No joy here -- I'm leaving SETI suspended, working other projects. When I am able to report completed work, I figure to restart SETI with no new work to clear out the existing work units. Then if things stay stable for a while, to restart downloads.

At least there is Life again on planet Seti
Now see if wu's can come my way...

All three of my machines have reported. The two small ones still have old work left. The i7 has been assigned ONE new WU. (Perhaps it realizes it has too much Einstein on board again.)

Well that one pushed me over the edge. I have done nothing but seti ever(for 10 years disregard join date I lost my old account somehow)...now I split with Milkyway....

Wish this project wasn't on such a shoe string budget...Wish I wasn't on such a shoe string budget so I could donate more(some).

Hope my quad core and gtx 570 classie make a worthy contribution splitting there time with a second project.

Wish there was a more seti like project than milkyway to get down on.

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Yay! and http://setistats.haveland.com came back too without any twiddling.

Well that one pushed me over the edge. I have done nothing but seti ever(for 10 years disregard join date I lost my old account somehow)...now I split with Milkyway....

Wish this project wasn't on such a shoe string budget...Wish I wasn't on such a shoe string budget so I could donate more(some).

Hope my quad core and gtx 570 classie make a worthy contribution splitting there time with a second project.

Wish there was a more seti like project than milkyway to get down on.

You should try Einstein@home uses almost the same ideia of SETI, but in place to find an ET they try to find Pulsars, Gravity Waves, etc.

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Why would RACs go down during an outage? No one's done more or less work than another, so shouldn't RACs freeze during an 8 or so day outage?

A week long outage...makes me question whether this project is worth the electricity on spend on it

Why would RACs go down during an outage? No one's done more or less work than another, so shouldn't RACs freeze during an 8 or so day outage?

No, RAC is derived over time.

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A week long outage...makes me question whether this project is worth the electricity on spend on it

If you don't think it's worth it, why are you still here?

Why would RACs go down during an outage? No one's done more or less work than another, so shouldn't RACs freeze during an 8 or so day outage?

No, RAC is derived over time.

And all crunchers were, in effect, in a time out. Thus, project-wise, no time passed.

Why would RACs go down during an outage? No one's done more or less work than another, so shouldn't RACs freeze during an 8 or so day outage?

No, RAC is derived over time.

And all crunchers were, in effect, in a time out. Thus, project-wise, no time passed.

Yes, the project was stalled but real time was not, therefore everybody's RAC fell.

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Why would RACs go down during an outage? No one's done more or less work than another, so shouldn't RACs freeze during an 8 or so day outage?

Well according to the unofficial BOINC wiki, RAC is calculated by summing the old RAC after a decay factor is applied (the rate is 50% every 7 days) based on the amount of time passed since the last time a unit was validated, with the number of credits the newly validated unit had. Now since we've all been offline for about 6 days as soon as one of the units we reported gets validated with a wingman, the RAC gets recalculated and our RAC drops to around 55% of what it was. Of course after we've all got around to reporting our units to the server and the server got around to validate them, our RAC would bounce back up somewhat, but still nowhere near the amount of credits that would be normal if, well, everything was normal.

Of course that assumes that the equation in the unofficial BOINC wiki is correct.

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"Life is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh." - The Doctor

It also varies based on how much work 100 CPU and 100 GPU units represent your daily load during the outage. For me it was roughly 4 days worth with the mix of shorties, although I just finished up the GPU unit I had Tuesday, I shut down the GPU when I watch movies or play games (and some games I shut the whole thing down). So I was only missing a couple of days worth of work during the outage.

However if you have a super cruncher that only runs GPU units, you were likely out in a matter of hours so your RAC won't bounce back as much with the units you processed during the outage.

I'm talking seti@home RAC here, the smartones belong to other projects for times like this.

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"Life is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh." - The Doctor