And we are back...

But not getting any work. Darn it.

Getting low on work....

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Grrrrr, I was able to contact the scheduler to report work right when they came back. But nothing but scheduler server errors since and every contact has received the no tasks are available message.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

we seem to be chugging along now. some of my systems have a full queue, and all of them have at least several hours worth of work

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Seti@Home classic workunits: 29,492 CPU time: 134,419 hours

I can't get some of my systems to contact the servers to report. I've tried all the tricks to no avail.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

All 4 caches full again here.

Cheers.

Grrrrr, I was able to contact the scheduler to report work right when they came back. But nothing but scheduler server errors since and every contact has received the no tasks are available message.

. . I've been assigned some work but it will not download ... some kind of server problem ??

Stephen

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Grrrrr, I was able to contact the scheduler to report work right when they came back. But nothing but scheduler server errors since and every contact has received the no tasks are available message.

. . I've been assigned some work but it will not download ... some kind of server problem ??

Stephen

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Yes, the servers are too busy and overloaded with download requests. Stuck in the same situation with download backoffs of five hours.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

Full caches on both machines, it took a while, but eventually got there.

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. . Hmmm, these new Blc11 tapes won't take long to disappear if the current rate of noise bombs persists. Unless I am a very unlucky volunteer who just happens to get all the noise bombs on all 4 machines they are currently about 50% of all WUs from these tapes.

. . Still it should get us through the weekend.

Stephen

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The return rate has been climbing steadily. It is now over 142k from ~90k before the BLC11 tapes.

The return rate has been climbing steadily. It is now over 142k from ~90k before the BLC11 tapes.

Just noticed that myself- talk about lucky timing.
Even with the lower return rate of the longer running WUs, the Wow! event added 12-15k extra returned per hour. Not too sure how well the system would have coped with an extended period of 155-160k per hour.

It will be interesting to see if this return rate is sustained for a few days, and if the servers can handle it OK- after all the issues the servers were having with such high return rates previously, we haven't had any since the database changes were made with the hope of alleviating them. This may give us a chance to see if those changes were successful (other than significantly reducing the time needed for the weekly outages).

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Grant
Darwin NT

Boy, you aren't kidding about the BLC11 noise bombs. It will be a good test of the servers to handle a high return rate.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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And now the deleters are showing the first signs of a struggle ....

FYI-Monday is a holiday. so hopefully there is enough data (probably) and the system can handle the noise

Boy, you aren't kidding about the BLC11 noise bombs. It will be a good test of the servers to handle a high return rate.

yeah i thought something was wrong when i saw all the jobs flying by in 5-10 seconds. CPU jobs even.

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Seti@Home classic workunits: 29,492 CPU time: 134,419 hours

And now the deleters are showing the first signs of a struggle ....

They seem to be coping okayed at the moment they are down to 2.727M

I wonder if anybody will reach the max number of tasks allowed per day because of all of these noise bombs

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I wonder if anybody will reach the max number of tasks allowed per day because of all of these noise bombs

My maximum tasks per day are around 22,000 & 46,000. And as each one validates, your maximum number of tasks increases.
So I don't think it's likely to be a problem.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I wonder if anybody will reach the max number of tasks allowed per day because of all of these noise bombs

My maximum tasks per day are around 22,000 & 46,000. And as each one validates, your maximum number of tasks increases.
So I don't think it's likely to be a problem.

Fair point Grant. Enjoy crunching through them quickly. Not to me that people that crunch more than one at a time will burn through them even quicker

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And now the deleters are showing the first signs of a struggle ....

They seem to be coping okayed at the moment they are down to 2.727M

I wonder if anybody will reach the max number of tasks allowed per day because of all of these noise bombs

. . As I understand it, the limit is not how many tasks you can do in a day, but how many tasks can be allocated to you at any one time.

. . There are quite a few hosts doing multi thousands of tasks per day.

Stephen

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Wow, it's up to 166k/hr return rate now, but the system seems to be handling it fine.
Other than the rapid shortening of the files left to split.