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Message 71790 - Posted: 21 Feb 2022, 19:44:42 UTC

Hey Everyone,

The server appears to be having some connectivity issues. Additionally, one of the drives on the server appears to have failed - luckily things are mirrored so we haven't lost any data. However, I need to make a backup of things, which could take several hours. Once everything is backed up I'll try to clear out this transitioner/validator backlog and get things up to speed again.

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Message 71791 - Posted: 22 Feb 2022, 19:11:15 UTC

The problem with the bad drive has been handled, but things are struggling to come back up. I'm working on it currently.
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Message 71792 - Posted: 22 Feb 2022, 19:49:23 UTC

Thanks a lot Tom. Really appreciate you letting us know when things are not running properly.
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Message 71793 - Posted: 22 Feb 2022, 20:59:55 UTC - in response to Message 71792.  

Thanks a lot Tom. Really appreciate you letting us know when things are not running properly.


Double for me. I've a few that need to come back home..
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Message 71794 - Posted: 22 Feb 2022, 21:07:32 UTC - in response to Message 71793.  

Things are looking up. I was able to send in 47 tasks and get one back for my slowest cpu.
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Message 71795 - Posted: 22 Feb 2022, 21:39:45 UTC

Looks like things are stable for the moment, I'm going to keep an eye on the validator and transitioner backlogs. Hopefully they will start decreasing as things begin to flow again.

I also think the server is running slower than usual because it is re-configuring itself after losing the broken hard drive.

We will have to take the server down again in a few days to replace the bad drive, but I'll let you know when that happens. I'll also keep in touch in case any more maintenance is needed before then.
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Message 71796 - Posted: 22 Feb 2022, 21:58:40 UTC - in response to Message 71790.  

Tom,

No worries. Have you tried hitting it with a very large hammer? :)

Seriously though, all of us "data crunchers" truly appreciate all of the infrastructure work and support that you provide.

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Message 71797 - Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 1:30:10 UTC

Thanks for the hard work Tom.
One of the benefits of the 14 day deadlines is the results can have a few days till they're returned if something unexpected happens.
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Message 71801 - Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 6:50:21 UTC - in response to Message 71790.  
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Hey Everyone,

The server appears to be having some connectivity issues. Additionally, one of the drives on the server appears to have failed - luckily things are mirrored so we haven't lost any data. However, I need to make a backup of things, which could take several hours. Once everything is backed up I'll try to clear out this transitioner/validator backlog and get things up to speed again.

Best,
Tom
When I ran servers we had RAID 6. Yes mirroring isn't exactly the same, but surely you can just pull out the bad drive while it's running and shove in another and it rebuilds it in the background? I even used this function to upgrade to larger disks without interrupting the users, I just did one at a time.

Another question, sorry. How come whenever it recovers from a problem, the server ends up with 2 million tasks queued to send out instead of the usual 11000?

Anyway it was nice to walk into my garage this morning to feel the temperature of a butterfly house. I knew what that meant! My Amazon parrots thank you.
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Message 71803 - Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 11:57:06 UTC - in response to Message 71790.  

Hallo Tom,

Can I get my points for the last work,because in the same time the server have had troubles.

Best: Luciferius Infernalis Vel Tohu
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Message 71804 - Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 12:21:20 UTC - in response to Message 71790.  

Time to break out the old Tonia Harding and giver her a good whack.......
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Message 71805 - Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 15:46:33 UTC - in response to Message 71804.  

Time to break out the old Tonia Harding and giver her a good whack.......
Is that Cockney Rhyming Slang?
I had to look up who she is, my god how can a cute thing become so repulsive?
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Message 71806 - Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 15:48:05 UTC - in response to Message 71803.  

Luciferius Infernalis Vel Tohu
My Latin isn't so good. Infernal devil?
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Message 71807 - Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 16:35:14 UTC

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Message 71810 - Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 21:31:15 UTC - in response to Message 71801.  

Another question, sorry. How come whenever it recovers from a problem, the server ends up with 2 million tasks queued to send out instead of the usual 11000?


This can be due to connection issues, so the server keeps accumulating jobs but isn't able to establish connections to volunteers to hand them out. It can also be due to server memory problems, where it doesn't have the memory available to query the database fast enough to hand everything out in time.
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Message 71811 - Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 21:36:49 UTC - in response to Message 71810.  

Another question, sorry. How come whenever it recovers from a problem, the server ends up with 2 million tasks queued to send out instead of the usual 11000?
This can be due to connection issues, so the server keeps accumulating jobs but isn't able to establish connections to volunteers to hand them out. It can also be due to server memory problems, where it doesn't have the memory available to query the database fast enough to hand everything out in time.
I thought you'd set a limit, as it's usually precisely 10000 seperation and 1000 Nbody.
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Message 71816 - Posted: 24 Feb 2022, 3:54:18 UTC - in response to Message 71811.  

I believe the server tries to keep at least that many tasks queued up to be ready to send out, but sometimes it increases if the server is struggling.
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Message 71847 - Posted: 2 Mar 2022, 16:30:10 UTC - in response to Message 71791.  

Thanks for all you do
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Message 71848 - Posted: 2 Mar 2022, 17:34:51 UTC

Server not fixed yet?
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Message 71849 - Posted: 3 Mar 2022, 4:16:14 UTC

There is a large number of workunits that are waiting to be validated. I think that this is because the server is running more slowly while it is degraded. When we get the drive back we can restore full functionality of the server. Hopefully that isn't too long, but in the meantime this big drop in RAC might just be how things are at the moment.
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