> Anthony Ayiomamitis wrote:

Claude Ortega wrote:

"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.

 

Every week we have a different problem. Personallym I seriously doubt the competency of the individual(s) running these systems! There is absolutely no excuse for these constant problems week after week.

Yes, many continuing problems. BOINC SETI procedures seem a whole lot more difficult to handle than SETI Classic. I think basically the problems are so new (with so many users and files and so on) that it is going as a learn as you go process. Just hang in there. The growing pains will slack off after a while ...
Al

Anthony.