Looks as though the splitters have spluttered - creation rate zero, RTS zero

Ah well, I'm just entering my day time shut-down, so I will just sit back for 12 hours and hope they've had the kick of life by then....

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

A bottle of vitamin c will help..

A bottle of vitamin c will help..

Gone beyond a splutter, they've been down and out for over an hour now.

Which is odd as the usual signs of impending doom (a increasing backlog of WUs awaiting validation, deletion etc) weren't there. While the load was huge, everything was chugging along OK, till the splitters stopped splitting (after an initial pause in output).
Could be return rates over 200k are the limit for the servers, although the cessation of splitting actually occurred when the return rate was less than it had been.

Present return rate of 237k will only last till people's caches run dry.


Edit-
Q. What is the best way to fix an issue with the Seti servers.
A. Post a comment about it .

The splitters are splitting again. Not a lot, but it's still better than nothing.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I wouldn't expect it to get any better for overflows until the next tape series - there are a million slower CPUs out there with 24h plus cache, so they are still working on normal runtimes. As they get into these tasks ... more and more returns.

Yeah, I had been getting 1 or 2 noise bombs here & there, but just had a batch of 9 in a row bomb out.

. . I just returned 140 tasks, 91 were noise bombs :(

Stephen

:(

. . I just returned 140 tasks, 91 were noise bombs :(

And nothing to replace them.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I put a new machine on line yesterday and was looking this morning at it's RAC and wondering why it was so low compared to the number of validated tasks, then I looked.

First page 15 noise bombs vs 5 actual tasks.

Bad day to fire up a new cruncher :-(

Well I've suspended GPU processing on my 2 rigs until I can get a bit of a buffer downloaded, but it's not fun downloading all this work when most of it is just garbage. :-(

Cheers.

Are "noise bombs" the 2-3 second, 2-3 point tasks I'm processing?

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Are "noise bombs" the 2-3 second, 2-3 point tasks I'm processing?

That's them, instant overflows.

Cheers.

Hmm uploads seem to be failing now.

They seem to "stick" at 100%

yuppers

I've passed this issue on to Dr. Korpela...

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Not quite 6am PDT, so I expect it may be an hour of two before we see any movement.

Still unable to upload myself.

Hmm uploads seem to be failing now.

They seem to "stick" at 100%

We seem to have a lot of Short duration tasks at the moment. My 8 core Android TV box has gone through about 3 times the usual amount of tasks in the last hour.

I was monitoring it because it ran short of storage yesterday, so I was just checking that at least 6 cores got some work, but the majority of tasks are finishing in under 3 minutes instead of the usual 30+ hours.

We are definitely in a shorty storm.

Not shortie, Noise bombs.
Shorties are Arecibo WUs that take less than half the usual time to process, but at least do take time process.
Noise bombs are what we've got at the moment- noisy data that that finishes almost as soon as it starts.

And to add to the fun, the splitters are showing signs of problems. Pumping out the work at a good rate, then not producing any for several minutes. Then pumping it out again for a hour or two, then nothing for a while.

+1

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Still unable to upload myself.

. . That would be a cute trick ... :)

Stephen

:)

Still unable to upload myself.

. . That would be a cute trick ... :)

Stephen

:)

LOL

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All of this has happened before and will happen again -Battlestar Galactica

This is TORTURE... SETI style...

I'm wearing out a mouse trying to upload.

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