The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118)

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Grant (SSSF) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13944 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304	Message 2025428 - Posted: 29 Dec 2019, 6:53:24 UTC - in response to Message 2025422. AArgghh! 31 tasks turned in and nothing returned. RTS has plenty. Scheduler is taking a lunch break. Yep. Seems to do it at least once a day, for 20min to over an hour. Grant Darwin NT ID: 2025428 ·

Tom M Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5126 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462	Message 2025450 - Posted: 29 Dec 2019, 12:57:14 UTC - in response to Message 2025363. Christmas Eve I posted: Hi All I haven't been very active the last couple of years or so, I thought I might fire up a box or two now that SAH has had the time to fix the software/server/WU availability issues that had been plaguing them... The response was a thunderous silence - did I somehow offend someone? Nope. When the Seti@Home server is down or hickupie often you can't post here. So we have an alternative thread for the whole website here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=8105 where a lot of the conversation centers around things we can try to get Seti back up (like howling at the moon and/or setting our hair on fire). You can get advice here or we have an entire "Messages and Answers" area here devoted to basic questions: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_help_desk.php How can we help? Tom A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). ID: 2025450 ·

Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13	Message 2025476 - Posted: 29 Dec 2019, 19:06:06 UTC Sorta cross-post, but I posted in the "don't know where it goes?" thread about having to update ca-bundle.crt to get scheduler contacts to work again on my main machine. Apparently the ca-bundle.crt from 2009 that shipped with 6.10.58 no longer worked. A few months ago, I resolved scheduler contacts by upgrading openssl to beyond 0.9.8o (upgraded to 1.0.2t, in this case), but I was getting SSL handshake failures again. Just wanted to mention it here in case anyone else comes across odd stuff like that. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) ID: 2025476 ·

Niteryder Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 64 Credit: 22,663,988 RAC: 18	Message 2025492 - Posted: 29 Dec 2019, 22:44:29 UTC 12/29/2019 4:32:25 PM \| SETI@home \| Project has no tasks available 12/29/2019 4:37:34 PM \| SETI@home \| Project has no tasks available 12/29/2019 4:42:43 PM \| SETI@home \| Project has no tasks available Not looking good. ID: 2025492 ·

Freewill Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 766 Credit: 354,398,348 RAC: 11,693	Message 2025495 - Posted: 29 Dec 2019, 22:49:41 UTC - in response to Message 2025492. Uh oh. I'm seeing no tasks as well, even though there are more than 200K ready to send. ID: 2025495 ·

juan BFP Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 9786 Credit: 572,710,851 RAC: 3,799	Message 2025496 - Posted: 29 Dec 2019, 23:00:27 UTC IMHO the SETI powers need to rethink about the rise of the WU limits, sometimes roll back to a lower level (something like 150 CPU +200 GPU) could help the servers stability. ID: 2025496 ·

Keith Myers Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873	Message 2025499 - Posted: 29 Dec 2019, 23:36:05 UTC HTTP internal server errors. Project backing off now. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) ID: 2025499 ·

Stephen "Heretic" Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Sep 12 Posts: 5557 Credit: 192,787,363 RAC: 628	Message 2025500 - Posted: 29 Dec 2019, 23:58:08 UTC - in response to Message 2025496. IMHO the SETI powers need to rethink about the rise of the WU limits, sometimes roll back to a lower level (something like 150 CPU +200 GPU) could help the servers stability. . . If they can confirm that is the problem. It would be a shame though, I am liking the 300 limit :( Stephen :( ID: 2025500 ·

Niteryder Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 64 Credit: 22,663,988 RAC: 18	Message 2025501 - Posted: 30 Dec 2019, 0:03:22 UTC Is it just me or are the web pages getting sluggish. ID: 2025501 ·

Mr. Kevvy Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3854 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319	Message 2025502 - Posted: 30 Dec 2019, 0:12:56 UTC - in response to Message 2025501. Is it just me or are the web pages getting sluggish. It isn't just you... this has been noted the last time we had scheduler HTTP errors and no work errors when there was work. ID: 2025502 ·

juan BFP Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 9786 Credit: 572,710,851 RAC: 3,799	Message 2025505 - Posted: 30 Dec 2019, 0:30:09 UTC - in response to Message 2025500. Last modified: 30 Dec 2019, 0:32:54 UTC IMHO the SETI powers need to rethink about the rise of the WU limits, sometimes roll back to a lower level (something like 150 CPU +200 GPU) could help the servers stability. . . If they can confirm that is the problem. It would be a shame though, I am liking the 300 limit :( Stephen :( I agree but after the change the system never returned to the normal, always something is happening from time to time. If you look at the SSP each time the total WU reaches close to 23 MM something weird happening, download stalls, no new work, slow Web pages or spliting, etc. could be a hell of a coincidence of course. Even post this msg takes a while. ID: 2025505 ·

Niteryder Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 64 Credit: 22,663,988 RAC: 18	Message 2025514 - Posted: 30 Dec 2019, 1:17:26 UTC Now downloads are failing. ID: 2025514 ·

Dave Stegner Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Oct 04 Posts: 540 Credit: 65,583,328 RAC: 27	Message 2025515 - Posted: 30 Dec 2019, 1:30:19 UTC - in response to Message 2025514. +1 Dave ID: 2025515 ·

Chris904395093209d Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Jan 01 Posts: 112 Credit: 29,923,129 RAC: 6	Message 2025516 - Posted: 30 Dec 2019, 1:43:11 UTC Web pages were sluggish, now I have a bunch of stuck downloads with a 3+ hour project backoff for them. ~Chris ID: 2025516 ·

Niteryder Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 64 Credit: 22,663,988 RAC: 18	Message 2025517 - Posted: 30 Dec 2019, 1:44:26 UTC My 100+ downloads just went through. ID: 2025517 ·

Speedy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Jun 04 Posts: 1646 Credit: 12,921,799 RAC: 89	Message 2025521 - Posted: 30 Dec 2019, 2:08:21 UTC - in response to Message 2025496. IMHO the SETI powers need to rethink about the rise of the WU limits, sometimes roll back to a lower level (something like 150 CPU +200 GPU) could help the servers stability. Thanks for voicing your opinion ID: 2025521 ·

Stephen "Heretic" Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Sep 12 Posts: 5557 Credit: 192,787,363 RAC: 628	Message 2025536 - Posted: 30 Dec 2019, 7:41:51 UTC - in response to Message 2025505. IMHO the SETI powers need to rethink about the rise of the WU limits, sometimes roll back to a lower level (something like 150 CPU +200 GPU) could help the servers stability. . . If they can confirm that is the problem. It would be a shame though, I am liking the 300 limit :( Stephen :( I agree but after the change the system never returned to the normal, always something is happening from time to time. If you look at the SSP each time the total WU reaches close to 23 MM something weird happening, download stalls, no new work, slow Web pages or spliting, etc. could be a hell of a coincidence of course. Even post this msg takes a while. . . Yes things are certainly 'not well', and some of the symptoms existed before the unfortunate change of the server software to 7.15, but that is what really brought things into disarray. But I guess when things are not going well being conservative makes sense so reducing the limits to what you suggested might at least give an indication if that is at all part of the problem.. . . Time to bite the bullet ... :( Stephen :( ID: 2025536 ·

Grant (SSSF) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13944 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304	Message 2025538 - Posted: 30 Dec 2019, 8:15:09 UTC Well, looking at the graphs the Scheduler likes to take a bit of time off most days, but it's not a fixed time. And the length of time it takes off varies too. Grant Darwin NT ID: 2025538 ·

JohnDK Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 May 00 Posts: 1222 Credit: 451,243,443 RAC: 1,127	Message 2025539 - Posted: 30 Dec 2019, 8:27:39 UTC Last modified: 30 Dec 2019, 8:27:50 UTC Auto resend is on it seems Mon 30 Dec 2019 09:25:36 CET \| SETI@home \| Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks. Mon 30 Dec 2019 09:25:36 CET \| SETI@home \| Reporting 183 completed tasks Mon 30 Dec 2019 09:25:36 CET \| SETI@home \| Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU Mon 30 Dec 2019 09:25:44 CET \| SETI@home \| Scheduler request completed: got 212 new tasks Mon 30 Dec 2019 09:25:44 CET \| SETI@home \| Didn't resend lost task 22dc19ab.14994.13762.10.37.157_0 (expired) Mon 30 Dec 2019 09:25:44 CET \| SETI@home \| Didn't resend lost task blc46_2bit_guppi_58692_69621_NGC3379_0055.14940.409.22.45.150.vlar_0 (expired) Mon 30 Dec 2019 09:25:44 CET \| SETI@home \| Didn't resend lost task blc46_2bit_guppi_58692_68985_NGC3379_0053.15006.409.22.45.145.vlar_0 (expired) Mon 30 Dec 2019 09:25:44 CET \| SETI@home \| Didn't resend lost task blc46_2bit_guppi_58692_69621_NGC3379_0055.14940.409.22.45.174.vlar_0 (expired) Mon 30 Dec 2019 09:25:44 CET \| SETI@home \| Didn't resend lost task blc46_2bit_guppi_58692_68985_NGC3379_0053.14913.409.21.44.177.vlar_1 (expired) Mon 30 Dec 2019 09:25:44 CET \| SETI@home \| Didn't resend lost task blc46_2bit_guppi_58692_68985_NGC3379_0053.14924.409.22.45.176.vlar_1 (expired) Mon 30 Dec 2019 09:25:44 CET \| SETI@home \| Didn't resend lost task blc46_2bit_guppi_58692_68985_NGC3379_0053.14913.409.21.44.180.vlar_0 (expired) Mon 30 Dec 2019 09:25:44 CET \| SETI@home \| Didn't resend lost task blc46_2bit_guppi_58692_68985_NGC3379_0053.15006.409.22.45.177.vlar_0 (expired) ID: 2025539 ·

Grant (SSSF) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13944 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304	Message 2025541 - Posted: 30 Dec 2019, 8:29:52 UTC - in response to Message 2025539. Auto resend is on it seems Surprised the servers are still functioning if that is the case. Grant Darwin NT ID: 2025541 ·

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