Thanks for the heads-up on the possible power outage at UC Berkeley and area tomorrow.

(For anyone who didn't see it, was posted in the Data Chat thread starting here.)

Guess I will be filling all the caches tonight...

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Thanks for the heads-up on the possible power outage at UC Berkeley and area tomorrow.

Would be good if Eric could post a news item about it so that people will get a notice (if enabled) in their Manager so if the Seti severs are affected, they've had prior warning about it.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Just had some uploads unable to go through, and this Seti site & the Berkeley System Status site were all MIA for a few minutes.

Edit- On the Berkeley News page-

Classes cancelled Thursday 10/10 due to power outage

12:45 a.m. update: PG&E has shut down power to the UC Berkeley campus. All classes are cancelled for Thursday 10/10. Employees, please contact your managers for further directions.

So it could have been a glitch for some of the network infrastructure as they went from mains to generators (some bits of the network didn't have a (working) UPS)).

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Grant
Darwin NT

https://news.berkeley.edu/

12:45 AM PG&E has cut power.

https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/campus-power-outage-closure-october-9-2019

The campus data center can continue to operate for approximately 3 days on emergency generator power.

12:45 AM PG&E has cut power.

We got a notice about this today as well. PG&E is doing rolling blackouts due to high winds to avoid starting any fires.

News update from Jeff Cobb re: outage

Large swaths of Northern California, including the UC Berkeley Campus, are under a Public Safety Power Shutoff due to high winds and the associated wildfire risks. Our servers are located in the campus Data Center which is protected by a high capacity UPS. We expect that our servers will remain up for the duration of the outage. Thus far Internet connectivity also remains up although this depends on factors outside of the Data Center.

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Looks like the servers are going to take a hammering- about 80% of my cache is Arecibo work, and probably 90% of them are shorties.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Oh joy.
Lots of shorties about, with plenty enough noise bombs mixed in, and now the Scheduler requests are resulting in "Project down for maintenance" messages, or the old "Project has no tasks available" message.
And all of this with the second weekly outage (extended version) to look forward to in a few hours.

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Grant
Darwin NT

oh joy

10/12/2019 7:58:40 PM | SETI@home | Project has no tasks available

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Good times for all, especially back up projects.

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oh joy

10/12/2019 7:58:40 PM | SETI@home | Project has no tasks available

Tasks now flowing again

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@ ALL

. . It wasn't bad for an unscheduled outage. It was over before I could complain about it ... :) but then again, I am not as fast as some ;)

. . Maybe they are trying to fix something to avert an unscheduled outage tomorrow :)

Stephen

:)

@ ALL

. . It wasn't bad for an unscheduled outage. It was over before I could complain about it ... :) but then again, I am not as fast as some ;)

. . Maybe they are trying to fix something to avert an unscheduled outage tomorrow :)

Stephen

:)

Some enjoy the Sunday outage, they use it as a reason to visit a pub.

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Is 11oc19ab stuck in splitting the AP ?? it is at 9 channels done and 5 in progress. Just thought I'd document it in case it is a problem, or just in case posting about it fixes it.

5 more hours until we find out if the Sunday morning bug (or feature) is fixed.

Is 11oc19ab stuck in splitting the AP ?? it is at 9 channels done and 5 in progress. Just thought I'd document it in case it is a problem, or just in case posting about it fixes it.

5 more hours until we find out if the Sunday morning bug (or feature) is fixed.

Seems to be a problem on both the AP and MB sides of that one.

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Greetings,

Well, looks like the "unscheduled" outage has struck again:

Sun 13 Oct 2019 05:15:08 AM CDT |  | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
Sun 13 Oct 2019 05:15:08 AM CDT | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
Sun 13 Oct 2019 05:15:08 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Deferring communication for 00:01:32
Sun 13 Oct 2019 05:15:08 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Reason: Scheduler request failed
Sun 13 Oct 2019 05:15:10 AM CDT |  | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

I hope this one doesn't last as long as last weeks. :|

Have a great day! :)

Siran

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Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

Well, looks like the "unscheduled" outage has struck again:

So it would seem.

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This Sunday I am stocked to the rim, but it is very strange how this is happening regularly without any explanations (I would be contented with it, out of sheer curiosity) or remedy (if there is one).

Sun 13 Oct 2019 05:34:37 AM EST |  | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
Sun 13 Oct 2019 05:34:37 AM EST | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
Sun 13 Oct 2019 05:34:39 AM EST |  | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

Again? This time even earlier.
Can`t go to the pub now! It`s 5:44 AM! Or i will be considered a hopeless Alcoholic!
This time another will need to do the sacrifice. I will joint a little bit latter.

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10/13/2019 5:20:19 AM | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
10/13/2019 5:20:21 AM | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
10/13/2019 5:20:23 AM | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

the Sunday outage has begun. I too wish that the seti staff would give a brief explanation about the new Sunday outage

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