My Team is in the middle of a challenge, so definitely want the computers running at their best. Yes, in most cases the servers sort themselves out on the daily glitches. Occasionally they are severe enough that a notification of staff is necessary to alert them to an upset.

Einstein is currently having major upload troubles now. Hundreds of tasks in backoff and can't clear the hosts because of the server having comms issues.

. . Next week they are going down for some maintenance event so that will be sorted out too :)

Stephen

:)

Ok people, get a bit of life into ya's and stop staring at the SSP and your rigs every waking moment, it may surprise some, but there are other things in life and the servers (plus your rigs) will eventually sort themselves out. ;-)

I'm sorry, but I just had to say that. :-D

Cheers.

. . But I don't drink beer ... :)

Stephen

:)

Spirits?

I've needed the sugar hit a few time today just to get the energy going again in this silly heat, even if it's half strength cordial added to the rum. :-)

A person would dehydrate in the shed here today quickly on beer. ;-)

About the only thing that I'm keeping my eye on ATM is the Grafton Rain Radar.

Cheers.

. . But I don't drink beer ... :)
Stephen
:)

Spirits?

I've needed the sugar hit a few time today just to get the energy going again in this silly heat, even if it's half strength cordial added to the rum. :-)

A person would dehydrate in the shed here today quickly on beer. ;-)

About the only thing that I'm keeping my eye on ATM is the Grafton Rain Radar.

Cheers.

. . Yeah, the weather has been giving me curry this week as well. A failed A/C unit means I am running with the windows wide open and a storm caught me out earlier in the week so I spent hours mopping up pools of rainwater the winds drove through the windows. Yesterday I locked everything up when the storms came but it got too hot and the rigs were overheating even with the wicks wound down so I had to shut everything down until I got home later. Lost a lot of productive hours there. I need to address the A/C issue :(

Stephen

:(

Looks like the Validators have issues, yet again. Their backlog continues to grow.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Looks like the Validators have issues, yet again. Their backlog continues to grow.

Grant,
Are you referring to:

Item                                            sah7        ap          sah8            as of
Results returned and awaiting validation	0	    32,614	5,737,593	0m

?

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I am just curious has anybody noticed any ghost work units? I have 79. Not sure how I got them. I will try and clean them up if I am not successful I will complete the work I have and set them free.

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Looks like the Validators have issues, yet again. Their backlog continues to grow.

Grant,
Are you referring to:

Item                                            sah7        ap          sah8            as of
Results returned and awaiting validation	0	    32,614	5,737,593	0m

?

Yep.
When you look at the graphs, you can see how backlogged it is- usually around 4 million, now almost 5.8 million. And of course with them backlogged, that causes the Assimilaators to become backlogged, and purging can't occur either.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I am just curious has anybody noticed any ghost work units? I have 79. Not sure how I got them. I will try and clean them up if I am not successful I will complete the work I have and set them free.

No ghosts here.
Ghosts tend to be the result of a network glitch during a Scheduler request (whether it's a internet issue, or the result of network issues on a system that's struggling).

I wouldn't bother mucking around with them. Just let them be, and they'll time out & get re-issued.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I am just curious has anybody noticed any ghost work units? I have 79. Not sure how I got them. I will try and clean them up if I am not successful I will complete the work I have and set them free.

. . The ghost recovery should sort that out, if you have the patience to do it 4 or 5 times as you only get 20 on each attempt.

Stephen

:)

I am just curious has anybody noticed any ghost work units? I have 79. Not sure how I got them. I will try and clean them up if I am not successful I will complete the work I have and set them free.

. . The ghost recovery should sort that out, if you have the patience to do it 4 or 5 times as you only get 20 on each attempt.

Stephen

:)

I agree Stephen, timing is everything and sometimes I find it tricky to trigger the double resend I will give it a go

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Web site & forums have been slower than a month of Sundays for a good 10 minutes now.

Edit- and the Scheduler has been unresponsive for at least 20min.
23/12/2018 11:08:30 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server

And several of the Server stats haven't been updated for an hour.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Yes the servers have pretty much fallen over. If you look at the Haveland graphs it is repeating almost exactly the pattern from 5 days ago with a severe climb and peak to over 6 million for the task/WU validations. Takes another day for it to fall back down.

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

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

I think the servers ebb and flow with either cron jobs or if then type triggers. I think there will be times with somethings get backed up (assimilation/validation) and there will be times when we won't get work handed out, and it might just be part of a new normal.

I think the servers ebb and flow with either cron jobs or if then type triggers. I think there will be times with somethings get backed up (assimilation/validation) and there will be times when we won't get work handed out, and it might just be part of a new normal.

. . Well I'm hoping it is just the now infamous 'daily glitch'. Otherwise my rigs may get Christmas off, "no tasks available" and all that.

. . Still maybe there will be someone in the lab on Christmas Eve ... otherwise they should be left in peace for the duration ...

{Edit}
. . OK! In true SETI " na na nah na, na na nah na ... " (imagine the Twilight Zone theme) fashion, while I was typing this message I got more work downloaded. What are the odds the servers have developed AI that monitors this thread ...

Stephen

? ?

I was down about half of my cache allotment earlier but they picked themselves back up on their own without any intervention on my part. I think the servers sort it out eventually. As long as the splitters have files to work on and they keep the RTS full, I hope that we can get through the holidays without any drama.

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

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

I was down about half of my cache allotment earlier but they picked themselves back up on their own without any intervention on my part. I think the servers sort it out eventually. As long as the splitters have files to work on and they keep the RTS full, I hope that we can get through the holidays without any drama.

. . Here! Here!

Stephen

(or is that Hear! Hear!)
:)

I see the validators have reached a new peak for pendings. Sure hope the servers don't fall over under the increased database load.

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

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

I see the validators have reached a new peak for pendings. Sure hope the servers don't fall over under the increased database load.

I think I've seen the validators go up to 10 million before the system died in the past. I'm hoping that someone will do the Tuesday maintenance and it will help. I hope the Tuesday maintenance is mainly automated. It started really early the past couple of weeks.

I'm hoping that someone will do the Tuesday maintenance and it will help. I hope the Tuesday maintenance is mainly automated. It started really early the past couple of weeks.

I fear that Jeff has just proved that maintenance isn't completely automated. This just appeared on the front page:

Jeff Cobb wrote:

Because of the Christmas and New Years Day holidays, our weekly outage will be on Wednesday rather than the normal Tuesday both this week and next.

The validators are validating, the assimilators are assimilating, so the system is looking good until the Wednesday outage. I'm glad they let us know. I hope everyone has a good holiday!!!