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 | A misconfigured scheduling server ran for about an hour this morning,
misinforming users that they had to upgrade to version 4 of the
BOINC software
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SETI News |
2970 |
3209 days ago |
| We discovered that the sheer number of files in the upload directory
was killing NFS performance for the file_upload_handler
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SETI News |
3354 |
3210 days ago |
| While the project is up and functioning normally, the database and
web servers are overloaded
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SETI News |
2827 |
3211 days ago |
| The project remained down all weekend, but we are back up now.
To add insult to injury, the entire lab lost network connectivity
to the rest of the world for a few hours this morning.
In light of the unexpected length of this las
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SETI News |
2899 |
3212 days ago |
| The project is *still* down
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SETI News |
3158 |
3215 days ago |
| The project is currently down
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SETI News |
2920 |
3217 days ago |
| We have shutdown the schedulers and file upload handlers so the transitioners
can play catch up again
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SETI News |
2913 |
3220 days ago |
| The project is down while we deal with a backup problem
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SETI News |
3022 |
3220 days ago |
| The good news is that the scheduler is now running as a fast cgi
which means it maintains a persistent connection to the DB
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SETI News |
3060 |
3222 days ago |
| We are now up and running again, during the night we generated 400k
results to be sent out
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SETI News |
2922 |
3222 days ago |
| We found and fixed the no results bug
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SETI News |
2827 |
3223 days ago |
| Yesterday we introduced a bunch of performance enhancements to the
system
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SETI News |
2929 |
3223 days ago |
| The log files are currently being compressed, after thats done the
project should return to normal.
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SETI News |
3192 |
3224 days ago |
| We have brought up an additional transitioner to try and cut through
the backlog we have accrued
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SETI News |
3099 |
3226 days ago |
| Sometime between 5pm and 12am PDT, the splitters seem to have
stopped producing new workunits
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SETI News |
2978 |
3226 days ago |
| A server bug was preventing
new results from being created in response to failed results.
If 2 out of 3 results for a WU succeeded and the 3rd failed,
the 2 successful results would not be validated or credited.
This is no
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SETI News |
2959 |
3228 days ago |
| Our database server hung and had to be forcibly terminated.
It took several hours to check all the tables and indices.
Then we ran into problems with our
Network Attached Storage device, which we rebooted
for the first tim
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SETI News |
3194 |
3232 days ago |
| It looks as though the server components
(splitter, transitioner, feeder, scheduler)
are now keeping up with demand.
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SETI News |
3030 |
3236 days ago |
| Since yesterday evening we have distributed over
600,000 results
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SETI News |
3240 |
3237 days ago |
| We have moved the scheduling server to another machine in
order to free up CPU and memory for the DB server
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SETI News |
2871 |
3237 days ago |
| We're making some major changes to deal with
server performance problems.
The project will be shut down for several hours today.
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SETI News |
3139 |
3238 days ago |
| We made some progress and are turning the project on.
You may still have problems getting work.
If that is the case, you might consider switching
back to SETI@home Classic for the next few days.
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SETI News |
3167 |
3243 days ago |
| We've been having problems with server performance.
To address these problems we're making some changes to our database.
The project will be shut down most of today while this is being done.
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SETI News |
3408 |
3243 days ago |
| Yesterday morning we shut down the front end of the system
to let the transitioners catch up with several days worth
of backlogged work, which is why some of you were noticing
three results and no credit assignment
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SETI News |
3173 |
3245 days ago |
| The web site has been reenabled.
We have several upgrades scheduled throughout
the week which should help with the performance problems.
If the project runs out of work again you are welcome to
revert back to the original
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SETI News |
2813 |
3248 days ago |
| We passed the safe threshold again,
so the web site has been shut down until Monday,
after we have had a chance to relocate some more infrastructure
services.
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SETI News |
2968 |
3248 days ago |
| An additional transitioner has been brought online.
We are turning on the web site and will be monitoring the system.
We may have to shut it down again if traffic becomes too bad.
We are investigating further performance enhanceme
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SETI News |
3101 |
3248 days ago |
| We are going to leave the project down until Monday.
We are going to bring back up the scheduler in an hour.
The transitioner was moved to its own machine and is
processing workunits at a much faster rate.
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SETI News |
3082 |
3249 days ago |
| We added a second splitter and then hit the next bottleneck which
was the transitioner.
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SETI News |
2944 |
3250 days ago |
| Memory for our web server was defective;
we are waiting on replacements before bringing it online.
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SETI News |
3115 |
3250 days ago |
| The transitioner is not currently able to keep up with the splitters.
We are going to top the project to allow the
transitioner a chance to catch up with the rest of the system.
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SETI News |
3191 |
3250 days ago |
| To handle increased demand for work,
we are bringing another splitter online.
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SETI News |
2982 |
3251 days ago |
| Read about SETI@home's
transition to BOINC
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SETI News |
2817 |
3252 days ago |
| We will be having a short server outage tomorrow at 17:00 UTC.
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SETI News |
2846 |
3252 days ago |
| Our database server crashed yesterday,
and it's taken a while for the database to repair itself.
Some message-board postings and user profiles
may have been lost.
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SETI News |
4302 |
3253 days ago |
| Welcome to the new SETI@home!
The project is now officially active.
We've reset the project by deleting all results and workunits,
and setting all credits (user, team, host) to zero.
Thanks to everyone who participated in
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SETI News |
4539 |
3253 days ago |
| Version 3.19 of the BOINC core client for Windows is released.
Please upgrade.
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SETI News |
4279 |
3253 days ago |
| The URL of this project is http://setiathome.berkeley.edu.
If you joined using a different URL, please detach
and attach to this URL.
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SETI News |
4672 |
3253 days ago |
| NOTICE: this project is not officially active.
Use at your own risk.
We may delete results and reset credits at any time.
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SETI News |
4406 |
3267 days ago |
| The project was shut down for about 12 hours yesterday
while we removed the uniqueness constraint on SETI@home classic
user ID (this was preventing new accounts from being created)
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SETI News |
4302 |
3270 days ago |
| A version of the SETI@home splitter is now feeding
work to this project.
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SETI News |
3253 |
3278 days ago |
| We have created the project and migrated the
user-related tables from the SETI@home database.
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SETI News |
3261 |
3281 days ago |
