SETI@home/BOINC outage 15.06.2005 over.

[Rattledagger]

June 14, 2005
Outage Notice. We will be having an outage tomorrow for a full database backup. This will begin at 17:00 UTC and may last up to 3 hours. The new scheduling server should make clearing the backlog go quicker after the outage.

Technical news:

June 14, 2005 - 19:00 UTC
Yesterday we fixed a bug in the scheduler that caused the fastcgi processes to die after running for a while. Immediately this helped the current backlog, as we removed the extra overhead of continually restarting the cgi processes. Last night the schedulers caught up from all the outages this weekend and we have been operating smoothly all morning.

And then some actual improvement before disaster strikes: As predicted in the previous technical news item, we just upgraded the BOINC scheduling system. Originally both the scheduler and the upload/download functionality were on the same server. This morning we configured the SETI@home classic master science database server to be the new BOINC scheduler while leaving the actual file upload/download on its current server. As the DNS changes slowly take effect both systems are acting as schedulers, but eventually there will be a clean split.

 

[Rattledagger]

June 15, 2005
We are back online after the backup. By virtue of the new scheduling server we are seeing no post-outage connection drops.

 

[Assimilator1]

Sounds good

Thx RD:thumbsup: