Subject: Re: BOINC SETI is Offline???
From: Martin 53N 1W
Date: 18/02/2005, 00:50
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Berkeley are making major server changes at their end and have also suffered a disk crash...

See:
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/

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News
February 17, 2005
Update. Once the RAID rebuilds we are going to run a job to delete old workunits and results from the array. These would normally be deleted by the file deleter but the latter is still backed up from before the database migration. The project will remain off through all of this.

The data server failed around 20:30 UTC for the third time in as many days. The project will be down as we continue to diagnose the problem.

February 15, 2005
The RAID resync is complete and the project is up, although the data server is a bit overwhelmed at the moment. In positive news, the new database server is running great (today's malfunction was not on that machine).
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Their new server machine may be getting a good thrashing for a little while yet!

Be patient. This is all part of the fun of expanding a major research project on a shoestring budget.


Part of the good features of Boinc is that you can simultaneously subscribe to other projects to keep your machine usefully busy if your primary favoured project is offline for whatever reason.

Happy crunchin',
Martin


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