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David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
I think Cosmic sums it up quite nicely within my limits of comprehension. Matt said a couple of years ago that he couldn't foresee any Informix limitation that Seti might hit for the foreseeable future. That may have to be re-visited. It occurs to me after reading this and subsequent posts that with the AP database and all its attendant processes being down, but (IIRC, and I think my point is still valid if I don't) the splitters having continued for a while after it went down, the Master database is probably holding a lot more than the usual number of rows devoted to AP. The validators were the first thing to go down, so there are a lot of AP WUs just sitting there waiting for validation. If I understand the above correctly, all of that is being held in the Master's RAM. Plus, we have the transition from AP6 to 7, which may be causing another larger than normal chunk of table to be held in RAM. Perhaps they should have started a new AP science database concurrent with that transition. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14656 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
I think Cosmic sums it up quite nicely within my limits of comprehension. Matt said a couple of years ago that he couldn't foresee any Informix limitation that Seti might hit for the foreseeable future. That may have to be re-visited. Yes and no. There is certainly a lot of stalled AP v7 work hanging around, waiting to be moved on down the line - but that's in the transactional (BOINC - MySQL) database. And yes, that would be held in RAM. But Astropulse has always generated far fewer tasks (and hence result rows in the database) than the MB figures I was quoting earlier, by about 30-fold. In roughly 3 months since AP v7 was launched, the BOINC database will have grown by the equivalent of less than 3 days of MB throughput. And - the point I was trying to make before - that has nothing whatsoever to do with the Informix (science) databases. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34054 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
That's some good news:) Work is now getting Split, my T8100 received a good bucket full, all VLARs. All tasks for computer 7118863 Claggy |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
That's some good news:) Aye, The SETI@home bit buckets are refilling at the moment. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 35200 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Yep, getting some tasks here 2, but why does Rosetta work always want to go into high priority mode whenever I get SETI work? :-O Cheers. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30758 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Yep, getting some tasks here 2, but why does Rosetta work always want to go into high priority mode whenever I get SETI work? :-O It is called a denial of crunch attack, a/k/a short deadlines. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 35200 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Yep, getting some tasks here 2, but why does Rosetta work always want to go into high priority mode whenever I get SETI work? :-O They maybe short on their deadlines, but there's no way that they won't be finished well before those deadlines arrive. Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 35200 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I wonder if someone will get around to doing something about file 07oc11af. Cheers. |
Zalster Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242 |
Woo hoo...just got a bunch of MB for 1 rig...unfortunately half were shorties but at least the GPUs fired back up.. ;) |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13770 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Eric's post mentioned it has taken 5 days to get to 25% & that was about 6 day ago. So if it still going it should be somewhere around 50% complete. In theory that would put the completion time around the 28/29th. Being a holiday weekend for the US maybe after maintenance on the 2nd AP shall return. Keep in mind those figures were before the Database became non responsive & the whole show went down for a while. It's possible the rebuild had to be restarted from scratch. Grant Darwin NT |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
Woo hoo...just got a bunch of MB for 1 rig...unfortunately half were shorties but at least the GPUs fired back up.. ;) Just got 14 MBs for my Core2Duo - all seem to be mid-range/normal tasks. My other WinXP box has a couple tasks, and my iBook has 1, but I just added a Core2 Duo running Vista, and it has no tasks yet,,,, Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
Eric's post mentioned it has taken 5 days to get to 25% & that was about 6 day ago. So if it still going it should be somewhere around 50% complete. In theory that would put the completion time around the 28/29th. Being a holiday weekend for the US maybe after maintenance on the 2nd AP shall return. Eric has posted an Update in Tech News - looks like the AP rebuild failed and will have to be redone..... Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 35200 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
My 2 rigs have picked up over 200 tasks between them today. Cheers. |
Cruncher-American Send message Joined: 25 Mar 02 Posts: 1513 Credit: 370,893,186 RAC: 340 |
I got a (technical term here) bunch of tasks today, too, but only a few GPU ones. I may just pack it in for the duration (won't hurt to save even more on the electric bill) when these are gone... *sigh* |
Phil Burden Send message Joined: 26 Oct 00 Posts: 264 Credit: 22,303,899 RAC: 0 |
My 2 rigs have picked up over 200 tasks between them today. You were lucky, I got 3 ;-( Now long since processed. P. |
JohnDK Send message Joined: 28 May 00 Posts: 1222 Credit: 451,243,443 RAC: 1,127 |
My 2 rigs have picked up over 200 tasks between them today. I think the difference between you 2 are the BOINC versions. I have recently updated all my 3 PCs to BOINC V7 from V6. V6 kept asking for work trying to fill the cache, V7 ask for works less frequently and my 24/7 PC haven't got one single task, last time it requested new work was about 3 hours ago... |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34283 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
My 2 rigs have picked up over 200 tasks between them today. I`m on Boinc 6 and got not much so far. One single task here and there. So i do some more beta. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Cruncher-American Send message Joined: 25 Mar 02 Posts: 1513 Credit: 370,893,186 RAC: 340 |
Looks like the Server Page has been dead for 2 hours. EDIT: Whoops! It was my browser cache...Sorry! |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
It occurs to me after reading this and subsequent posts that with the AP database and all its attendant processes being down, but (IIRC, and I think my point is still valid if I don't) the splitters having continued for a while after it went down, the Master database is probably holding a lot more than the usual number of rows devoted to AP. The validators were the first thing to go down, so there are a lot of AP WUs just sitting there waiting for validation. If I understand the above correctly, all of that is being held in the Master's RAM. Plus, we have the transition from AP6 to 7, which may be causing another larger than normal chunk of table to be held in RAM. That size differential occurred to me after I posted. And - the point I was trying to make before - that has nothing whatsoever to do with the Informix (science) databases. I understood that point. I noticed this morning that I now also have a significant number of MB WUs where both hosts have completed, but validation is still pending. This process usually happens faster than you can reload the web page to look at it. Speaking of vlars, when I kicked my i7 to ask Beta for work yesterday, it got over 50 vlars (and immediately put Einsteins on hold to start working on them). David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
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