Seti@Home Outage!

[j.m@talk]

March 5, 2005 - 01:00 UTC
The project is down for the weekend. Although we made some diagnostic progress, the servers are still not able to talk to the UPS's. The power in the building is still not trustworthy. There will probably be a power outage next week so that campus can track this down

[Scavenger7]

March 7, 2005 - 18:45 UTC
The graceful shutdown procedure is finally falling into place. The project is up but data service is off while we generate some more work. Data service will be on shortly. We will have a short outage or two today for testing graceful shutdown.

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/tech_news.php

[michaeln]

This is a nuisance!. I'm at position 10 on the Sysopt.com Users 2002 and about to possible move to 9. The suspense is killing.

[SirFrank]

In less than 3 days Ill be 14. Less than 20 at 13. Mr Smith must be crying. Hes working on 250,000 Wu's.

[smithdw]

One word -- SETIQueue.

The outage kinda sucks, but so far the queue is still holding.
I have about 3700 processed WU's queued to be sent back.
Fortunately I still have about 5000 WU's queued to be processed and all of the systems are still happily chugging along. My home system is out of the 30 WU's that I had on it, but I reset the SETIHide queue to cache 99 WU's when it can get them.

I am REALLY glad I setup SETIQueue. It normally caches about 8400 WU's (about 2 weeks worth) just in case SETI is down. All of the systems have about 129 WU's being processsed at one time and I can usually get 610-630 per day done. I still have about 12 or 13 new p4-3.0 systems to replace old PIII-450's when I can get the time.

Thank you SETIQueue.

[Johnny Fist]

It looks like Mr. Smith is just toying with you.

[smithdw]

Looks like SETI is running again. I have a full cache on my home system again. I checked their communications stats page and they look like they are sending & receiving data. I'll check the SETIQueue stats in the morning. Hopefully it will clear the cache within a day or two. It seems like it takes awhile to send any cached WU's to SETI.

[porsch1909]

What is setiqueue???

[j.m@talk]

Originally posted by porsch1909
What is setiqueue???

Its to do with ye olde world Seti

Boinc has this built it

[porsch1909]

My seti still aint working

[smithdw]

It is a program for SETI classic that stores work units for you. The classic program was setup to only go out and get WU's when it was finished with the one it was working on, when SETI is down, your system will sit idle until it gets more work. One of my systems has the SETIQueue program to store about 2 weeks worth of WU's for all of the systems. BOINC has it built in, so each system will store it's own WU's. The program is here if you want to take a look.

[j.m@talk]

Originally posted by porsch1909
My seti still aint working

What you got: seti hide ?

Whats it dooin ?

Giz a screeny then

[porsch1909]

**** doing nuffin!!

[Scavenger7]

lots of people trying to get work right now, and only 26 wu's ready to send.

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html

WU's will come once the traffic has died down.

[Scavenger7]

i just d/l a few more.