As far as the public data pipeline is concerned, it's been relatively smooth sailing since recovering from the weekly outage yesterday. Queues are draining or filling in the right directions, work is being created and sent out at an even pace, etc.

However, bambi was a bit of a time consuming headache this morning. It finally resynced from the spurious RAID failure yesterday. I tested the supposed failed drives and got enough confusing outputs that I thought the disk controller went nuts. Playing around with the 3ware BIOS showed this was more or less the case: every time we rescanned the drives a different small random subset would disappear from the list. This isn't a good thing.

We popped the system open and found nothing loose or unseated. So we did a true power cycle - unplugging it from the wall, etc. Since then the disks have all returned and remain intact after several rescans and reboots. So perhaps an ugly bit got jammed in the 3ware card and needed to be neutralized. Meanwhile I moved splitting to lando so I could work on bambi without dangerously running low on work to send.

- Matt

You need to unhide your computer so we can look at it, unhiding your computer will not reveal any secure info, just click on my name/view computers, at the left and you will see what is revealed.

These are probably "ghost" results, where the server thinks you've received them but for whatever reason, your computer never did. You haven't spent any time on them, so no CPU loss for you. They've also been sent to three other hosts. Some of them have already been validated, many have two results back, and if they don't get a quorum before their deadline, more results will be sent out, so the science won't be lost. As the deadlines hit for the ghosts, your daily quota will be reduced by 1, but the next time you return a successful result it'll be doubled up to a max of 100/cpu/day, so you'll likely never notice it.

Bottom line, don't worry 'bout it.

MJ

When BOINC is running it puts the CPU under maximum load, causing an increase in core temperature. On my duel Xeon server the core temps go from around 34 to over 50 degrees C. Assuming your cooling is adequate you shouldn't have a problem. The fan running faster is simply your computer trying to dissipate the heat faster. Unless the CPU is reaching around 80 degrees, or your system is crashing, your fine!

When I upgraded to BOINC 4.25, almost every computer showed up in the list again as a new computer. When I went to merge them, it was like it was randomly selecting pairs. Something is wrong with the "auto merge detection".

I agree, give us a "force merge" that will list all the PCs and let us force them together. If we mess it up (say merging all 5 PCs into one computer) then nect time they report, it would be bust like it was a freshly installed client.

As it is, I went ahead amd merged the random pairs so I had some reduction in the number of computers in my list. So now results made by different machines are merged (by error, most likely), anyway.

It is one of the project specific preferences. You will have to change it at each project you participate in.