Server Outages

I find it interesting that under 3 days of no load the server hasn't crashed....under load it was crashing at least once a day.

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Well there goes that theory ...server crashed this morning unless it was taken down on purpose....

Server crashes? I though they were due to power outages?

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Server crashes? I though they were due to power outages?

When a computer reboots itself it could be both.....Travis never said all the computers in their computer room were having outages....it sounded like just this one.He also used the word crashed in the front page news ;)

The server could even be crashing due to an unstable power supply :)

What ever it is, it's obviously a hard ware error.

If you turn off the "auto reboot", you should get a BSOD that
gives you some more information what it could be that causing it.

CPU error, not very likely, unless it's due to over heating,
all BOINC projects create increased heating to the CPU,
which could explain why it crashes more often when the project is on.

How ever, over heating is a quite unusual reason for a crash,
unless you have over clocked the CPU.

The most usual error that causes the most vague and various symptoms
is actually faulty graphic cards.

The next most usual error is unfortunately the one that is the hardest
to fix and that is mother board failures...

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What ever it is, it's obviously a hard ware error.

If you turn off the "auto reboot", you should get a BSOD that
gives you some more information what it could be that causing it.

CPU error, not very likely, unless it's due to over heating,
all BOINC projects create increased heating to the CPU,
which could explain why it crashes more often when the project is on.

How ever, over heating is a quite unusual reason for a crash,
unless you have over clocked the CPU.

The most usual error that causes the most vague and various symptoms
is actually faulty graphic cards.

The next most usual error is unfortunately the one that is the hardest
to fix and that is mother board failures...

Good info Crystallize.....however....I would "hope" Lab Staff knows all this :)

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If you turn off the "auto reboot", you should get a BSOD that
gives you some more information what it could be that causing it.

Maybe if it ran Windows... But BOINC software runs under Linux.

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Good info Crystallize.....however....I would "hope" Lab Staff knows all this :)

Perhaps, but since it takes so long and they don't seem to have a clue.

I'm usually solving a hard ware problem in less than two days, how ever complicated it may seem. So I thought I just give some pointers... :o)

If you turn off the "auto reboot", you should get a BSOD that
gives you some more information what it could be that causing it.

Maybe if it ran Windows... But BOINC software runs under Linux.

But there must be some debugging tools also for Linux ? right ?

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Good info Crystallize.....however....I would "hope" Lab Staff knows all this :)

Perhaps, but since it takes so long and they don't seem to have a clue.

I'm usually solving a hard ware problem in less than two days, how ever complicated it may seem. So I thought I just give some pointers... :o)

If you turn off the "auto reboot", you should get a BSOD that
gives you some more information what it could be that causing it.

Maybe if it ran Windows... But BOINC software runs under Linux.

But there must be some debugging tools also for Linux ? right ?

unfortunately, our labstaff isn't dedicated to just working with us - they handle all the systems administration for the entire computer science department at RPI. so getting things to work correctly often takes a bit longer than we'd all like. also unfortunately, we're also kind of locked into using them :P

It looks like we are running again.

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It looks like we are running again.

And again ;)

Is the end of this somewhere in sight?

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Grüße vom Sänger

It looks like we are running again.

And again ;)

Is the end of this somewhere in sight?

i've been bugging labstaff as much as i can :) school is back in session now so hopefully they're all back from vacations and things like that. i haven't gotten any response from them in the last few days.

Why is this going down almost every day?

Why is this going down almost every day?

the guy i've been talkign to in labstaff thinks there might be a problem in the kernel. other than that i'm really not too sure.

Is anyone looking into the recent rash of server crashes?

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Is anyone looking into the recent rash of server crashes?

i'll let labstaff know about it. not quite sure whats causing them. there have been a lot of downtime for different servers on campus so that might be part of the problem. it was up and running smoothly for a good week or two there before the recent bout of outages.

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Phew, we're back again! :-))))

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Lovely greetings, Cori

Phew, we're back again! :-))))

That's what we're talking about, more work :)

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Yippie, we're back.
Was about time. ;-)

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