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Seti is down again
IrishFBall32:
I would argue that the outages, while they do cause some issues, aren't really that bad... This issue with the upload disks choking wasn't so much due to the outage, as it was the A/C failure right before... A/C failure can and will take down even the best servers, and all but the best of datacenters.
Given their shoestring budget and the scale of the userbase, SETI is doing a phenomenal job of keeping the lights on, even if the uptime is currently hovering around 50%. The BOINC platform itself was built to allow for a project with frequent outages or work shortages, and as such they highly encourage you to enroll in multiple (non-related - ie. not SETI and SETI beta) projects to keep the pipes moving.
msattler:
Well, some of the problems with the system choking are suspected to be related to the accidental creation of ghost tasks, which seem to be inflating the size of the database over the last couple of months.
You can get a little more detail of some of the things that are being dealt with from the technical news link on the home page....which is currently available, even though the forum itself is not.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/tech_news.php
Purple Rabbit:
I used to run SETI quite a bit, but I'm sitting on the sidelines for the moment (doing other projects) hoping they can find and implement a more predictable solution.
I hate it when I change something and they change something. I can't figure out who to blame when it doesn't work :P
Ghost0210:
Looks like someone's in the lab early today
Download service on Vader's just kicked in :D
hiamps:
--- Quote from: Ghost on 28 Sep 2010, 09:51:32 am ---Looks like someone's in the lab early today
Download service on Vader's just kicked in :D
--- End quote ---
But what good does that do if everyone is full of uploads? Wonder why they didn't start upload server first? Just down to a few VLars on my CPU's.
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