"John" <fredclark@consltec.demon.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:vMnv4WAG72DDFwqe@consltec.demon.co.uk...

The Server Status page has shown SETI-NOINC as having most of the
servers running all today (UK day time). However, the WU queue has not
diminished and no outstanding credit has been granted.

The SETI-BOINC team have now been "in the office" this Friday morning
for several hours now, and the last Tech News indicated they would "go
on line" during their morning?

Anyone close enough to the team to let us "other crunchers-in-waiting"
have a peak at --

1.      What their problems are;
2.      When the "waiting for validation" queue is likely to drop;
3.      and, when we can start receiving new WUs?

Or have they found other major hardware or software problems which mean
we will be down for the week end?
-- 
John Clark

Posted by Rom Walton on the Seti forum:
Okay, here is an update.

Right now there are roughly 600,000 files left for the file deleter to deal 
with. Current estimates say the file deleters should be finished by tomorrow 
morning.

The reason that the validators are down is because both the validators and 
file deleters were getting in each others way in the upload directory. So 
the current line of thinking is let the file deleter queue drain quickly and 
then attempt to bring the project up and see if the validator queue can hold 
it's own after a day or two of the project being up and people have reported 
in and have new work to crunch. If the validator cannot keep up then the 
project will be brought back down and the validator queue will be drained 
and the project will be brought back up.

While it hasn't been stated, I believe that if S@H is still having problems 
after all of that then the upload directory is going to be moved to a 
different device and file system which should be better able to deal with a 
lot of small files better.

-- 
Claude