Man, I dono why people decide to flame our forums while we're trying to get the server working again :P Talk about bad timing, lol.

In the BOINC industry it's called stress testing. Some stress more than others.

They do, dont they...

BOINC is like a university. The projects are fraternities. They all reside on Fraternity Row. It's easy to walk out of one frat and into another carrying lots of baggage. Sometimes it's rough on the pledges. :)

Say, I got post 9999 and you got post 10001. We both missed the magic number by 1. What a coincidence mysterious milky way kid.

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Say, I got post 9999 and you got post 10001. We both missed the magic number by 1. What a coincidence mysterious milky way kid.

Yes, where is 10000?

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What else could go wrong?

We lose all our credits.

and then it cascades into all other projects ultimately bringing down the internet, satellite radio, and Major League Baseball.

Back to stone tablets and a chizel. tink..tink..tink..

And the abacus. All credits will be calculated by the projects abacus.

I've actually been working on an abacus version of the application. Expect them to mail out for v0.19

Right on. I'll optimize it by taking off a few beads.

Nah, use grease to make em move faster.

Well I was thinking of using smooth glass instead of wooden beads. I promise not to drop them.

How about this for the next version of MW?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mickey_i/527141283/

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Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
If it makes sense, DON'T do it.

Say, I got post 9999 and you got post 10001. We both missed the magic number by 1. What a coincidence mysterious milky way kid.

Yes, where is 10000?

From what I gather it's a lone post in a hidden thread. U wanna PM?

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me@rescam.org

What else could go wrong?

We lose all our credits.

and then it cascades into all other projects ultimately bringing down the internet, satellite radio, and Major League Baseball.

Back to stone tablets and a chizel. tink..tink..tink..

And the abacus. All credits will be calculated by the projects abacus.

I've actually been working on an abacus version of the application. Expect them to mail out for v0.19

Right on. I'll optimize it by taking off a few beads.

Nah, use grease to make em move faster.

Well I was thinking of using smooth glass instead of wooden beads. I promise not to drop them.

How about this for the next version of MW?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mickey_i/527141283/

Oh man... that's exactly what I was putting together (except mine used glass). I should have patented it before you posted that pic.

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me@rescam.org

Say, I got post 9999 and you got post 10001. We both missed the magic number by 1. What a coincidence mysterious milky way kid.

Yes, where is 10000?

From what I gather it's a lone post in a hidden thread. U wanna PM?

Oh Jeez, its another spy in our midst ...

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Say, I got post 9999 and you got post 10001. We both missed the magic number by 1. What a coincidence mysterious milky way kid.

Yes, where is 10000?

From what I gather it's a lone post in a hidden thread. U wanna PM?

Oh Jeez, its another spy in our midst ...

The 2 or 3 topics got deleted, so the post doesn't exists now. Just hit search at the top, scroll down, no 10000.

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Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
If it makes sense, DON'T do it.

What else could go wrong?

We lose all our credits.

and then it cascades into all other projects ultimately bringing down the internet, satellite radio, and Major League Baseball.

Back to stone tablets and a chizel. tink..tink..tink..

And the abacus. All credits will be calculated by the projects abacus.

I've actually been working on an abacus version of the application. Expect them to mail out for v0.19

Right on. I'll optimize it by taking off a few beads.

Nah, use grease to make em move faster.

Well I was thinking of using smooth glass instead of wooden beads. I promise not to drop them.

How about this for the next version of MW?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mickey_i/527141283/

Oh man... that's exactly what I was putting together (except mine used glass). I should have patented it before you posted that pic.

Cant do floating-point arithmetic with glass beads, they always sink down the rods. I tried already.

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Message from server: No work sent
Message from Server: There was work available, but none for you as your abacus has the wrong size beads.

Classic.

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Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
If it makes sense, DON'T do it.

What else could go wrong?

We lose all our credits.

and then it cascades into all other projects ultimately bringing down the internet, satellite radio, and Major League Baseball.

Back to stone tablets and a chizel. tink..tink..tink..

And the abacus. All credits will be calculated by the projects abacus.

I've actually been working on an abacus version of the application. Expect them to mail out for v0.19

Right on. I'll optimize it by taking off a few beads.

Nah, use grease to make em move faster.

Well I was thinking of using smooth glass instead of wooden beads. I promise not to drop them.

How about this for the next version of MW?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mickey_i/527141283/

Oh man... that's exactly what I was putting together (except mine used glass). I should have patented it before you posted that pic.

Cant do floating-point arithmetic with glass beads, they always sink down the rods. I tried already.

Mine are hollow beads filled with hydrogen. No smoking allowed. Not recommended for overclocked systems.

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me@rescam.org

What else could go wrong?

We lose all our credits.

and then it cascades into all other projects ultimately bringing down the internet, satellite radio, and Major League Baseball.

Back to stone tablets and a chizel. tink..tink..tink..

And the abacus. All credits will be calculated by the projects abacus.

I've actually been working on an abacus version of the application. Expect them to mail out for v0.19

Right on. I'll optimize it by taking off a few beads.

Nah, use grease to make em move faster.

Well I was thinking of using smooth glass instead of wooden beads. I promise not to drop them.

How about this for the next version of MW?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mickey_i/527141283/

Oh man... that's exactly what I was putting together (except mine used glass). I should have patented it before you posted that pic.

Cant do floating-point arithmetic with glass beads, they always sink down the rods. I tried already.

Mine are hollow beads filled with hydrogen. No smoking allowed. Not recommended for overclocked systems.

Not suitable for flame posts.

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What else could go wrong?

We lose all our credits.

and then it cascades into all other projects ultimately bringing down the internet, satellite radio, and Major League Baseball.

Back to stone tablets and a chizel. tink..tink..tink..

And the abacus. All credits will be calculated by the projects abacus.

I've actually been working on an abacus version of the application. Expect them to mail out for v0.19

Right on. I'll optimize it by taking off a few beads.

Nah, use grease to make em move faster.

Well I was thinking of using smooth glass instead of wooden beads. I promise not to drop them.

How about this for the next version of MW?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mickey_i/527141283/

Oh man... that's exactly what I was putting together (except mine used glass). I should have patented it before you posted that pic.

Cant do floating-point arithmetic with glass beads, they always sink down the rods. I tried already.

Mine are hollow beads filled with hydrogen. No smoking allowed. Not recommended for overclocked systems.

Not suitable for flame posts.

BOINC must first be put in snooze mode. Do not leave tasks in memory.

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me@rescam.org

omfg. the computer gods hate us :( yeah. more to come tomorrow when we figure more stuff out.

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Wow!

What a saga!

A good imagination gives great insights on Travis and Dave working behind the server scenes with several 20 lb lump hammers.

It looks like they are slowly beating the servers in to shape, and they are moving on to the delicate stuff for the 3 lb hammers.

Best of luck with the final straight(s) for both of you.

Looks like Travis and Dave are back under the bonnet (hood) as these servers are not running -

data-driven web pages milkyway....Running
upload/download server milkyway...Running
scheduler milkyway..................Running
feeder milkyway.............Not Running
transitioner milkyway.......Not Running
db_purge milkyway...........Not Running
milkyway_av milkyway........Not Running


This is the next stage using the delicate touch!

Many thanks for the sheer intensity of your problem addressing to both of you - Travis and Dave.

omfg. the computer gods hate us :( yeah. more to come tomorrow when we figure more stuff out.

Things sound worse than upgrading from XP to Vista. Keep the freshmen outta the computer lab and good luck tomorrow. Don't forget about food & sleep.

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me@rescam.org

omfg. the computer gods hate us :( yeah. more to come tomorrow when we figure more stuff out.

Things sound worse than upgrading from XP to Vista. Keep the freshmen outta the computer lab and good luck tomorrow. Don't forget about food & sleep.

Use that one for the food...

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mic.

omfg. the computer gods hate us :( yeah. more to come tomorrow when we figure more stuff out.

Things sound worse than upgrading from XP to Vista.

I tried it the other way, trying to dual boot XP on Vista - it kept blue screening. Hope the MW servers ain't blue screening...

Don't forget about food & sleep.

Yea, time for breakfast. And back to bed if you insist

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OK -- this is getting rather tedious. I think I will for now approach the problem from the client side by suspending Milkyway processing, and setting it up for 'no new work'.

Assuming we don't encounter a third run of completed workunit kill off, I'll then 'unsuspend' the project to let existing work process and clean the queues.

Then, after a couple of days of normal operations, I'll let new work flow into the workstations for processing.

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What else could go wrong?

We lose all our credits.

and then it cascades into all other projects ultimately bringing down the internet, satellite radio, and Major League Baseball.

Back to stone tablets and a chizel. tink..tink..tink..

And the abacus. All credits will be calculated by the projects abacus.

I've actually been working on an abacus version of the application. Expect them to mail out for v0.19

For Linux please.

What else could go wrong?

We lose all our credits.

and then it cascades into all other projects ultimately bringing down the internet, satellite radio, and Major League Baseball.

Back to stone tablets and a chizel. tink..tink..tink..

And the abacus. All credits will be calculated by the projects abacus.

I've actually been working on an abacus version of the application. Expect them to mail out for v0.19

For Linux please.

<-- looks like the penguins already have the abacus.

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me@rescam.org