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Matt Lebofsky Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1444 Credit: 957,058 RAC: 0 |
Quick update: We keep having these persistent science database crashes. It's a real pain! Despite how bad this sounds, this shouldn't greatly affect normal work flow as we get on top of this. Yesterday we had the third crash in as many weeks, always failing due to some corrupted index on the result table that we drop and rebuild. Not sure what the problem is, to be quite honest, but I'm sure we'll figure it out. The BOINC (mysql) databases are fine, and the Astropulse databases are operating normally. Lots of internal talks recently about the current server farm, the current database throughput situation, and looking forward to the future as we are expecting a bunch more data coming down the pike from various other sources. Dave is working is doing a bit of R&D on transitioning to a much more realistic, modern, and useful database framework, as well as adding some new functionality to the backend that will help buffer results before they go in the database, so we can still assimilate even if the database is down (like right now). None of the above is an April Fools joke of any sort. Not that you should have read it that way. More to come... - 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 |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
Thanks Matt And tell the team that new graphic on the Home page telling where units are going to and coming from around the world is fantastic . |
Brent Norman Send message Joined: 1 Dec 99 Posts: 2786 Credit: 685,657,289 RAC: 835 |
Matt may I make a suggestion? The system always seems to have problems occurring from weekly maintenance. How about try to throw the servers into maintenance mode, then bring them back up in 10 minutes? And see if there is a problem with the code, don't touch the Db, just in and out of maintenance. Pick a time when everything is running smoothly and kick it. Might sort down if it is a server problem or Db problem. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Jan KRO Send message Joined: 9 Dec 07 Posts: 10 Credit: 4,422,634 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for that update, and the above suggestion sounds reasonable to me, but maybe you guys came up with that try sometime ago. And isnt it about time you gave us some recent work to crunch, in stead of feeding 2 year old workunits back into the field? |
Blurf Send message Joined: 2 Sep 06 Posts: 8964 Credit: 12,678,685 RAC: 0 |
If hardware replacements/upgrades are so urgently needed, why not do a long-term Bitcoin Utopia to raise funds to buy what's needed? |
Dad Send message Joined: 21 May 99 Posts: 44 Credit: 35,266,844 RAC: 10 |
+1 |
raydar115 Send message Joined: 6 Oct 02 Posts: 17 Credit: 16,305,128 RAC: 0 |
OK this is all most in the bull s^)& mode WTF there should be a update by now on the tech news about what is wrong THIS time!!!!!!!!!!!!! Come on. I love the work everyone is doing for Free. But why keep everyone in the dark!!!!!!!!!! At least let us know about how long we need to work on our least favorite project till seti can be back UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Matt posted yesterday in the Number crunching forum. |
Bob Merrill Send message Joined: 7 Jun 99 Posts: 120 Credit: 8,531,677 RAC: 19 |
Why not posted here? |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Why not posted here? Because he only wanted to take time out from doing the real work to post once, and that thread is most commonly used by the regulars for asking questions about what's going on. Once a post has been made, Matt can safely leave it to the rest of us to link/re-post wherever needed, and that's been done in a few other places already by other users. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51478 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Why not posted here? And I think that it is a great thing that he posts where the majority of us bounce off of each other with problems. He has picked up some feedback in the past by posting in and reading bits in the Panic Mode thread. Meow, Matt!!! "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
Bill Butler Send message Joined: 26 Aug 03 Posts: 101 Credit: 4,270,697 RAC: 0 |
Why not posted here? +1 "It is often darkest just before it turns completely black." |
KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60 |
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51478 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
are running out of WUs for GPUs again? :D LOL...everything is under database repair. For a few days maybe, no WUs for anything. Except for maybe a few resends of WUs already in the system that have not been sent back in time. Hang tight, repairs underway. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
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