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Rattledagger

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November 17, 2004 - 20:00 UTC
The upload/download disk array has been well-behaved over the past week, so we have moved on to other hardware projects.

We are in the process of moving the alpha/beta test projects over to a new linux system. This will allow us to test our whole server suite on a platform other than solaris. As well, since the system is completely detached from everything else, if our public projects go down, the alpha/betas will still remain active (and vice versa).

As part of SETI@home classic ramping down, we are busy cleaning up the old on-line database (an intemediary database that doesn't exist in BOINC) as well as preparing a new master database that will contain classic and BOINC SETI@home data on a system with higher capacity/throughput. We are also planning for much more capacity/throughput on the main BOINC database (adding hardware raid, a db replica server, etc.).

We are still far from forcing old SETI@home users to move over to BOINC. When BOINC is poised to take on 500,000 more users, we'll throw the switch.
 
Originally posted by: Assimilator1
I wonder far 'far' is?....................
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Well, an indication of how fast it's going, the separate computer for alpha/beta was in-house a month ago and is AFAIK still not handling the alpha-project...

BTW, it can look from this statement they'll kill off "classic" regardless of the new gui finished or not, or they'll expect to release the gui in a couple weeks and configuring new science-database will take longer than this...

Latest news on separate gui is the screensaver is now apparently working on windows even if service-install, and the mac-gui is working... But there's still some things to iron out on the mac, and "working" doesn't mean it's bug-free.
 
November 18, 2004 - 22:00 UTC
During a routine operation to bounce the projects for database snapshot/backup purposes, the database server lost track of the database volume and hung. We had to power cycle the machine to get it to reboot, then reboot it again after fsck'ing the drives (fsck = file system check).

Once we were back up, we wanted to make sure the database didn't suffer any corruption, and so we checked most of the tables. All of them checked out okay, which isn't surprising as the database was quiescent when the server misbehaved. Everything is back up and running now.

 
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