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Outage Notice
In order to gain more resources to clean out our database, we shut off all the data servers starting at 16:15 UTC. We probably won't be back up until Thursday around noon (Pacific time). More about it in Technical News.


http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/tech_news.php

January 4, 2006 - 21:30 UTC
Well right now we're in the middle of another self-imposed outage to clear the pipes. The BOINC database compression on Monday helped a bunch - enough that the final troublesome queues were draining, but not nearly as fast as we would like.

Here are some numbers: Normally the entire BOINC database, when unloaded to an uncompressed ASCII file, is about 17GB. This is largely due to the huge workunit/result tables. Because of assimilator/file deleter issues, by December 21 the database swelled up to 26GB. On December 28 it was 31GB. Unable to purge old workunits and results, our database ended up nearly double its normal size! No wonder we were in a world of hurt.

After the new year we recovered a bit, and the compression on Monday brought it back down to 26GB. But we still had this annoying backlog of a million workunits and four million results, and until we got those purged, we weren't going to get any smaller.

This morning we turned off the scheduler to allow these queues to finally drain. We estimate it will take until tomorrow morning to clear everything out once and for all. Better to just bite the bullet and fix it rather than watch and hope for improvement during the coming weeks. When the queues all hit zero, we'll do one more quick database compression/backup and get back to work.


... Attach to your second favoured Boinc project?

See:
http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/index.php?title=Catalog_of_BOINC_Powered_Projects


Happy crunchin',
Martin