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

[Ghost0210]

Looks like someone's in the lab early today
Download service on Vader's just kicked in

[hiamps]

Looks like someone's in the lab early today
Download service on Vader's just kicked in

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.

[msattler]

Looks like someone's in the lab early today
Download service on Vader's just kicked in

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.

Well....nothing is showing up on the Cricket graphs yet.  But let's hope it is a sign that things are going along OK and they are getting ready to come back online today.
And there may be a bunch of stuck downloads out there......but I think mine are mainly all uploads too.

I got the kitties crossing all their little toes for luck..........

[msattler]

And the forums just came back online!!!

Meow meow!

[arkayn]

But still nothing going in, they must still be syncing the raid on the new upload server.

[PatrickV2]

All my machines have been able to upload all their results, some of these have a report deadline of 01-Oct-2010, so things are getting a bit tight to say the least.

However, I cannot report the results("Couldn't connect to the server."), and also no new work is being sent out apparently.

Let's hope they get the rest running real soon now...

Regards, Patrick.

[msattler]

All is purrrrrrrrring along pretty well right now.

Most important server services are online.  All my rigs have reported their week's worth of backed-up completed results.  The kitties give a collective sigh of relief, and are sniffing for new work.
It is going out as the bandwidth allows them to connect.
Cricket graphs show the bandwidth maxxed out, so work is going out as fast as the infrastructure will allow.

Hope it can hold together better now under the new server configuration.

Meow meow.

[msattler]

Oh, crap.,...

Sunday mornin' comin' down.....
And so is Seti..
Not even the boards are up.

Such a bummer.

[msattler]

Guess they are still there.......
After about 10 minutes, the forums started to respond again...sort of.

[hiamps]

In my Boinc Notices Tab it says
Our upload (Results) storage area is full
the projects are down until we resolve this in the next few days
10/1/2010 11:00:08 AM

[perryjay]

Yeah, they just haven't changed that message HiAmps this is something else again. The website seems to be going up and down a lot. I was trying to send a reply to a post when it started this time, hope it isn't resending the post each time I retry to get to the website.

[hiamps]

LOL, missed that...