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ToeBee · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject:

They have been having some data server problems for the last few days. I think it is fixed now. I've been keeping busy with einstein, predictor and now LHC so no worries here Smile

Dagger · Prince Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 2918 Location: BC Canada

seems fixed yes.. ul and dl without problem.
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sir spuddly buddly · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:34 pm Post subject:

Ni!
Just when you thought Seti was up and running again......

February 23, 2005
Update: a breaker blew and the power for the entire lab was off for several hours. Power returned at 23:30 UTC, but we will be dealing with fallout for a while - the project will probably be down all night and through tomorrow morning. More info in Technical News.

Ho hum! Back to those other projects.
Ni! Smile

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sir spuddly buddly · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:14 pm Post subject:

Ni!
All the bloody, gorey details (eeeek!)

February 24, 2005 - 23:30 UTC
Update on yesterday's outage: We are still dealing with some database fallout. Most of the classic SETI@home systems are up - enough that we can serve workunits to users. However, BOINC is dead in the water until we get at least one database server up and running.
With the master database corrupted beyond repair, we turned all our attention to the replica. Its disks finished sync'ing last night, and after some file system checks the machine booted and mysql started just fine. A battery of tests revealed no corruption.. until we got to the result table. Of course, that's by far the biggest and most important table in the database. We are attempting to repair it now.

Assuming we can repair it with little or no data loss, we will then dump all the data from the replica back onto the master. If we're lucky, this will be done by tomorrow morning and we can start revving all the engines back up.

Please note that since it was a slower machine than the master, the data on the replica database server was about 30 minutes behind real time. We did try to limp both systems along to sync the replica data up even further but no dice. So, when we do get back on line it will be as if there was a half-hour hole in time during which all uploaded results were lost (and any user profile updates, message board postings, etc.). We sincerely apologize to all our users for this loss.

Court brought in a UPS from his personal server collection. So the master database will be protected while we scramble to purchase another. The database server was unprotected yesterday because is was in our lab, not in the data closet where all of our UPS's are. We were/are just weeks away from a data closet reorganization designed to make room for the DB server.

Ni! Sad

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sir spuddly buddly · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:32 pm Post subject:

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I think someone has forgot to pay the electricity bill at Seti - down again Sad

News
February 28, 2005
Around 18:00 UTC we had another unexpected lab-wide power outage. The cause of these random failures is being investigated by campus, but all our systems/databases survived without any corruption. We will be down as we work to further protect ourselves. More info in Technical News.
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:50 am Post subject:

Wow this project at times seems as bad as Genome@Home will all these outages. Razz

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sir spuddly buddly · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:23 am Post subject:

Ni!
Latest from Seti (classic page not boinc)

March 1, 2005
Power Outage Update: Since the cause of the random power outages is still unknown, we are leaving the data server off during the evenings (users will not get workunits/send results at that time, and various web site facilities will not operate correctly). We can handle power outages during the day while we're at the lab, and are working towards a better system to handle outages at night. Meanwhile, campus is trying to diagnose and fix the problem (which effects the entire building - not just us).

Ho hum, now we know why everyone is joining "the search for Elbert"! Confused

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Fart in your gen direxion · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:33 am Post subject:

Seti is down ?

I think that's a good thing as people won't be burning fossil fuels on such a useless project Razz

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Sincerely,

Not only stupid but also highly opinionated Cool

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Sir Fart

#ni-1

Killerrabbit · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:51 pm Post subject:

This is just like classic Genome.

Ni

#ni-1

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LanDroid · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:44 pm Post subject:

I have two SETI Boinc units that have been "uploading" for days, but still aren't ready to report. Wazzup with that? If I detach, will I lose those work units? Sacred computer cycles could be wasted!

I detached from LHC due to point/credit problems. I was donating 25% of computer time on two machines, but LHC provided only 6% of my total credit. Sacred computer cycles were being wasted!

Now Predictor is refusing to send work out again. So it looks like I'm only able to crunch Einstein and Climate Prediction at the moment.

C'mon BOINC, get it together!

Fart in your gen direxion · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:28 pm Post subject:

Sir Landroid,

It sounds like you don't know how to BOINC very well Confused

. Have you ever considered seeing a therapist that specializes in BOINCing Shocked

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ToeBee · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 5:00 pm Post subject:

LanDroid, do not detach! You will lose the work units if you do. If you check the technical news page, you will see that they have kept the project offline for very good reasons. As soon as the servers are brought back up (hopefully later today) those work units will get uploaded and reported.

Not sure what is up with predictor... I have several predictor work units sitting here ready to go. I'm also doing a bunch of LHC, credit problems be damned! The fact that everyone else is detaching just means I will advance in the ranks faster! Twisted Evil

Javapersona · Knight Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 84

Frankly, I have been very disappointed with SETI/BOINC. I was once its biggest proponent but now there are short regular outages and it takes longer and longer to recover from them. I strongly encourage everyone to crunch multiple projects. At one point I was as in the top 1500 woldwide in SETI but that is now slipping as I have throttled back my particiaption. I look forward to signing up for more projects as they come online.

SETI is "eki eki eki" #Cussing out