SETI - CGI(nr realtime) STATS back up atm :) + latest news from S@H

[Assimilator1]

Got the list up now

For those newbies ,here is the TA member list ,these stats are near realtime ,if you flush a WU then refresh the page the WU will (should) show!

 

[Assimilator1]

Here's the latest news from SETI ,sounds some what better now

June 20, 2001

Another busy morning:

We upgraded our version of Informix on the user database, mostly motivated by our need to get the new web server able to handle all the CGI functionality. We were having troubles with this recently (in case you haven't noticed) because there is a conflict with newer versions of Solaris and older versions of Informix. Anyway, the upgrade itself went well.

However, this didn't totally clear up the problems we were having - we still can't do database lookups on the new web server, which is why all CGIs are running on an auxiliary machine, iosef.

As well, after restarting the data server, we found it maxing out very early, to the point where it was dropping connections and failing when doing user database lookups. Some people may have seen erroneous "unknown user" errors. It turns out there the old configuration file for Informix didn't exactly jibe with the new version. After a bit of research we were able to make Informix happy and resume normal operations.

At this point we turned the data server back on, as well as the user lookup CGIs. We are leaving the "View Recently Completed Results" function off, though, since this needs to connect to the science database which is currently turned off in order to allow us to build some desperately needed indexes. Building indexes will vastly speed up various database queries.

By the way, "View Recently Completed Results" is what used to be "View Last 10 Results." Why the change? In order to make the lookups much faster. This new method restricts the database searches to only the past few weeks, whereas the old method had to sift through and sort two years' worth of result data. Users were experiencing many dropped connections from these queries taking too long to process.

So.. As it stands now we are still working on 1) getting the new web server to contact the user database, and 2) getting the science database indexes built.

June 19, 2001

Many things:

1) The troubles that were causing random power fluctuations (and the one long power outage on June 14th) have been fixed by the building electrician. This required a two hour outage this morning. Our data server and web servers were out of contact during this time. They are all currently back on line.

2) We turned the "Last 10 Workunits" back on yesterday, but due to a firewall snafu people were unable to look up any regular or detailed user stats. This was also fixed this morning.

3) The data server is still suffering from fallout of the lengthy science database restore this past month. The upshot of this is the data server occasionally stops working for short periods of time (usually about 15-20 minutes). This has been happening regularly for the past week as we've been diagnosing and fixing this problem.

4) Static stats pages and graphs haven't been regularly updated for the past 10 days. This is due to the frequent network/database outages and bugs introduced as we are altering the functionality of several machines here at the lab. We're on top of this as well.

 

[littleprince]

link doesnt work for me

 

[Assimilator1]

Whoops! I forgot I had a little fix for that in place (cgi stats are not at there normal server).
Enter the following line into your 'hosts' file(NO extensions) in the windows directory

128.32.18.175 setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu #temporary redirect to iosef.ssl.berkeley.edu

Just save the file ,no need to reboot & you'll be able to see the stats

 

[nexus9]

Good, hopefully my stats (www.mattzone.com) will be working tomorrow...

-Nexus9

 

[Assimilator1]

I hope so ,we've been missing your stats

BTW did you know that some members are missing from you list? eg b1er (not B1er) is not shown in your stats & the position number he would be at is missing too!

 

[Smoke]

Thanks Assimilator1,

I'm up late and you must be up early.

 

[JWMiddleton]

Thanks Assim1!

For Win9x users the HOSTS file goes in the "c:\Windows" directory. You will find a sample file there entitled "HOSTS.SAM" You can cut-and-pasted the line below into the sample file and rename it.

128.32.18.175 setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu #temporary redirect to iosef.ssl.berkeley.edu

It does work.