say you banned everyone in the top 10 in terms of RAC. that only accounts for 7.5% of the world wide RAC on SETI. it wouldn't reduce the load on the project servers that much. the effect of millions of users requesting work FAR outweighs the few people with high RAC.

There aren't millions of active users on SETI. There are millions of registered users, or rather 1,759.531 registered users, but only as of now around 94000 active users.
[size=*not 2*]Credit Hounds[/ dont hide your words :)size]

the more important metric is RAC, since that will correlate to the amount of work being dished out to each user/host. and that was the point.

the top producers are a small portion of total load on the servers. banning them wont solve any of the server issues.

your comments are nothing but hyperbole. for someone who claims to not care so much and hate on main so much, you sure spend a lot of effort complaining about it lol.

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

Porsche?

I'm more a Subaru WRX kind of guy :P

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

1990 Olds Cutlass Ciera, actually.

Meow.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

A blessing for what?

Getting a larger database to study.

The power producing companies?

That's between you and your wallet.

What we crunch here, is only step one, and we're 20 years behind on the other steps

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That speaks to the lack of funds to pay for the manpower. If that bothers you so much do something about it such as start a fundraiser, donate some of your money or do the analysis yourself. Bitching about it doesn't help and just makes you look pathetic.

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Hey Mark - only 180 days to go ;-)

I'll send you a coffee voucher when you get there

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I'm a 2013 Chevy Volt kind of guy.
Meow.

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

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

Jesus.
I have not been modded in, like, forever,
A discussion of server status is like, off limits now..............
Just joking.
I know why it came down.

And I'll stand by that Iron Duke 2.5L Tech IV motor forever.
It might last me that long.

Meow.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Lots of obsessive-compulsive types in the crunching community. I'm one. Just remember , OCs are essential for human survival. Who else would have kept the fires constantly stoked to ward off the saber toothed tiger? Now, I just get another GPU off of eBay....

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I shall fade off into the background again.
I did my bit, and was successful in contacting an admin to kick the servers.
Be thankful, and that is all I shall ask.
Till we meet again.

Meow.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Front page says we lost Georgem, one or our download servers and 15% of the outgoing workunits. Sigh.

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

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

Downloads moving again!!

Lots of "Permanent HTTP errors" and "unrecoverable errors" for queued download tasks. Those are the lost 15% of tasks.

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

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

Lots of "Permanent HTTP errors" and "unrecoverable errors" for queued download tasks. Those are the lost 15% of tasks.

The vast majority of mine were AP WUs.
:-(

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Grant
Darwin NT

It must be approaching pubo'clock

Yes, I've been down at the pub.

Looks like I missed all the fun :-)

Looks like there's still a download issue- takes a minute or so for downloads to actually start downloading, occasionally pausing while downloading, and some barely cracking the 1kB/s mark by the time they finish.
But at least if you get allocated some work, it will eventually download.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Yes I picked up around 200 or so download errors which forced all machines into 24 hour backoffs because of the error count. No AP's that I could see. The hosts that were forced into 24 hour backoffs had to download master files again after I forced updates on them to get back to requesting work. Out of work in the RTS buffer now though.

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

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

Wizzing down the line now - well done all!

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Out of work in the RTS buffer now though.

Splitter output is barely any at the moment.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Since then I've thought of a workround, tested it, and got two empty components of my central heating back into action. Yay!
But I'm not going to share it now, because:

1) Jeff is already on the case
2) I got a significant number of errors on the downloads
3) The scheduler is now down for maintenance.

. . FWIW ... I, not having used your workaround, have also received a large number of download errors since they resumed this am. I suspect that is a timeout issue for many of them since they have been in abeyance for a long time.

Stephen

:)

. . FWIW ... I, not having used your workaround, have also received a large number of download errors since they resumed this am. I suspect that is a timeout issue for many of them since they have been in abeyance for a long time.

Nope, it's because of the storage failure as posted in the news thread. The WUs are no longer there to download, hence the download error.

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Grant
Darwin NT