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Seti is down again
RottenMutt:
now i know nothing about the server side, but anyone other then me starting to wonder if this is a software problem?
msattler:
--- Quote from: RottenMutt on 25 Oct 2010, 10:47:54 pm ---now i know nothing about how the server side, but anyone other then me starting to wonder if this is a software problem?
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I did....I brought it up and Eric was gonna ask Jeff to update reload mysql, which apparently they tried on jocelyn with no improvement. Don't know if they tried it on mork or thumper.
Eric was going to peruse the mysql bug reports to see if there were any clues there...
Not sure why they were not able to get things running today.....I'll probably hear a bit more in the morning.
RottenMutt:
not just the database, but in the basic programming/logic of the whole thing. shouldn't the results out in the field be approaching zero?!?
Miep:
--- Quote from: RottenMutt on 26 Oct 2010, 03:20:45 am ---not just the database, but in the basic programming/logic of the whole thing. shouldn't the results out in the field be approaching zero?!?
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No?
Some 38 hours ago there were about 4 million results in progress, with at least half a million issued in the last reporting/DL window.
That number can only drop if results are reported or time out (and only with running validator/transitioner).
If the processing was running with no UL/DL you would see the decay with timeout [asuming 'out in the field' does not include tasks waiting for resend due to timeout] - this would reach zero after about 6 weeks
If everything was up but no new WU were being handed out you would see a fast reduction from quick hosts followed by slow reduction while slower hosts hand their work back in - possibly asymptotic to the number of tasks not really being crunched. In six week that fallout times out, gets reissued and you get another asymptotic decay to a smaller positive number. Which times out another 6 weeks later and get reiessued. Thankfully we are dealing with natural numbers (and finite resends) or that number couldn't reach zero in your life time ;) With a six week deadline you'd be looking at some 42 weeks of reissues.
Look at the bright side - if a child was concieved the day SETI stopped handing out new work and just waited till everything was back, that child would see the light of day before the last WU was crunched.
RottenMutt:
so you think the last work unit will need to be reissued 9 times before credit is given!!!???!!!
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