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Message 1616871 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 4:46:29 UTC

It appears that the root partition filled on marvin (rapidly) while I was AFK, for no reason that I am aware of, which caused it to crash. Nobody is at the colocation facility right now, so the astropulse DB is down. I'll try to get remote accesses for a reboot, but chances are that marvin is down until monday morning.
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Message 1616874 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 5:05:40 UTC - in response to Message 1616871.  

Sorry to hear that.

Thanks for the update
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Message 1616877 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 5:10:19 UTC - in response to Message 1616874.  
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Many AP channels being split are also erroring out now.


EDIT- to add to that, MB splitter output has almost halved, so the ready-to-send buffer is falling & we should be out of work in the next 18-24 hours.
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Message 1616882 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 5:34:09 UTC

Blimey you folks are certainly have a run of bad luck :( Thanks for update Eric, fingers crossed it's an easy thing to figure out and solve.

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Message 1616889 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 5:52:45 UTC - in response to Message 1616882.  

It's probably easy to fix. The likely problem is getting support from the colocation facility on the weekend outside of working hours. We don't pay the additional fees for 24/7 support (primarily because they aren't small).
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Message 1616892 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 6:16:09 UTC - in response to Message 1616889.  

I take it it's not OK to leave it as it is until Monday in it's crashed state then? If non of the remote stuff works?

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Message 1616894 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 6:30:26 UTC - in response to Message 1616877.  

Many AP channels being split are also erroring out now.


EDIT- to add to that, MB splitter output has almost halved, so the ready-to-send buffer is falling & we should be out of work in the next 18-24 hours.



That should be OK, most peple have a 7 day buffer.
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Message 1616895 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 6:41:56 UTC - in response to Message 1616894.  

That should be OK, most peple have a 7 day buffer.

Depends on what you mean by most people.
Mine will last 8-12 hours, except for my slower machine which will have about 4 days work.
Others will run out in a couple of hours, or less.
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Message 1616896 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 6:59:13 UTC - in response to Message 1616871.  

It appears that the root partition filled on marvin (rapidly) while I was AFK, for no reason that I am aware of, which caused it to crash. Nobody is at the colocation facility right now, so the astropulse DB is down. I'll try to get remote accesses for a reboot, but chances are that marvin is down until monday morning.

Just be sure it didn't fill because it was filling log files with error messages to overflowing.
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Message 1616916 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 9:37:13 UTC - in response to Message 1616871.  

while I was AFK

Wait, why would you even be AK (at keyboard) on a Sunday?
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Message 1616922 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 10:44:55 UTC
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I am running 7 BOINC projects, plus one not BOINC (CernVM_WebAPI). Most of them go on vacation for Xmas because developers and admins enjoy their vacations, but some of them (like Einstein@home) still give me work. So Merry Christmas to everybody.
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Message 1616932 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 12:00:15 UTC
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It is nice to see that someone is bothering about this project at all.

Supposedly I too often end up here having other thoughts on my mind.

I paid a visit to Lunatics yesterday evening. Only had a quick look at their page.

Really I am under the impression that application development is a continuous process which never seems to end.

One may perhaps be asking whether or not such applications (including the special or proprietary ones), are able to detect a signal if it should be present.

For now we only are able to make assumptions on whether or not a signal ever was there by means of looking at the four result categories, as well as possible processing times of a given task, as well as autocorrelation, of course.

Back in 1977, Jerry R. Ehman probably was able to detect the Wow signal because the area was already known to be rich in radio sources. Whether or not the source behind this signal was stationary or not probably never will be known for sure, since it only was detected in one of two horns being used for this purpose at that time, namely the radio telescope belonging to the Ohio State University.

Sadly this facility is no more.

The whole thing was eventually torn down and was replaced by other facilities instead.

One part of history gone.

Instead being replaced by something else.
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Message 1616968 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 15:00:57 UTC

It is nice to see that someone is bothering about this project at all.


Over the last few weeks we have been kept up to date with all the problems. We also know that Matt and Jeff have been involved.

So please be a little more respectful.
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Message 1616981 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 16:45:58 UTC - in response to Message 1616892.  

I take it it's not OK to leave it as it is until Monday in it's crashed state then? If non of the remote stuff works?


It's mainly generation of astropulse work that will suffer. No permanent damage should result. But I'd like to have everything in working order before folks do leave for the holidays.
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Message 1616986 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 16:54:23 UTC - in response to Message 1616981.  

I take it it's not OK to leave it as it is until Monday in it's crashed state then? If non of the remote stuff works?

It's mainly generation of astropulse work that will suffer. No permanent damage should result. But I'd like to have everything in working order before folks do leave for the holidays.

Could you ask them to take a look at Lando as well tomorrow, please? Lando's four MB splitters don't seem to have been pulling their weight since Marvin went down.
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Message 1616995 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 17:19:05 UTC
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You are of course correct when saying so.

I should not be using such a language here.

Rather I should also say "that" instead of "which" - again my poor language skills.

I could also mention that I again may have made a new discovery regarding prime numbers, or at least factors.

Eventually quite a number of these factors, 100 - 1000 digit ones should become available in the near future as I get this new collection put together and later uploaded at the proper place (The Factor Database).

Also there really is a marked contrast between those .vlar's and the CUDA-based Seti@home tasks when it comes to processing times. I do like those tasks that are carrying out the gaussian search better than the .vlar tasks, but apparently there may be a new batch of tasks later for the CPU which may be doing exactly that, which should not make it necessary for me to go back to changing the preferences back to CUDA-tasks as well as an option.

The Genefer tasks are also a fascinating subject, but running these tasks by means of CUDA is demanding and is straining both input and output as well as visible graphics on the screen.

Definitely there are both advantages and disadvantages in doing all of this.

Sitting at home like you may also be doing, I probably forget it is a Sunday today.

And in fact Christmas is coming up as well only 3 or 4 days from now.

I wish you good luck in fixing Marvin, Eric!
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Message 1617071 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 21:16:41 UTC - in response to Message 1616995.  

Marvin isn't finding a boot device on reboot. I'm not even sure it's seeing the RAID card at all (these remote interfaces to the boot screen aren't good at capturing things that happen quickly). Matt and I are meeting at the co-lo first thing tomorrow morning. I'm bringing a boot CD and what I think is a matching RAID card.
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Message 1617077 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 21:49:08 UTC

Thank you again for all the extra effort you make for us.
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Message 1617092 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 22:18:22 UTC - in response to Message 1617071.  

Marvin isn't finding a boot device on reboot. I'm not even sure it's seeing the RAID card at all (these remote interfaces to the boot screen aren't good at capturing things that happen quickly). Matt and I are meeting at the co-lo first thing tomorrow morning. I'm bringing a boot CD and what I think is a matching RAID card.

Ouch. Good Luck. Thanks.
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Message 1617107 - Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 23:03:34 UTC - in response to Message 1617071.  

Marvin isn't finding a boot device on reboot. I'm not even sure it's seeing the RAID card at all (these remote interfaces to the boot screen aren't good at capturing things that happen quickly). Matt and I are meeting at the co-lo first thing tomorrow morning. I'm bringing a boot CD and what I think is a matching RAID card.


You need a remote controled "AstroBot" with a wireless cam on it so you can run around and look at things when the doors are locked :D
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