SETI@home power-outage ended.

Rattledagger · Jan 7, 2005

January 7, 2005
Outage Notice. Because of nearby building construction there will be an extended power outage this coming weekend. All of our machines will be turned off so there will be no data or web service. The outage will begin Sunday, January 9, at 18:00 PST (January 10, 02:00 UT). We hope to be back up Monday at 08:00 PST (16:00 UT).

Edit - and their up again.

dmcowen674 · Jan 7, 2005

Thanks for the heads up RD

Everyone make sure your ques are full.

JarrodH · Jan 7, 2005

Thanks for the notice! (Filling up queues at the moment)

Assimilator1 · Jan 7, 2005

Yeah! ,building work often takes longer than expected!.

5days worth of WUs should be safe

Btw who remembers the 1week outage we had 3.5yrs ago when someone cut (stole?) their main net pipe!?:Q
I was down to my last few WUs when it finally came back on,that was close!

RaySun2Be · Jan 7, 2005

Btw who remembers the 1week outage we had 3.5yrs ago when someone cut (stole?) their main net pipe!?

I sure do. :Q That was a mess. And the resulting bandwidth bottleneck afterwards. Fortunately, I had enough WUs to last through.

MmmSkyscraper · Jan 7, 2005

I edited my global_prefs.xml to store 1.0 days of work. Should be sufficient, each one takes approx 2 hours...

Couldn't find anywhere else to change that setting.

zaph · Jan 7, 2005

MmmSkyscraper, you can edit that on the seti-boinc account settings page, i do not believe that setting in in the xml file on your machine will create a lasting change.

I keep mine @ 7.1 days - just in case.

SirUlli · Jan 7, 2005

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Yeah! ,building work often takes longer than expected!.

5days worth of WUs should be safe

Btw who remembers the 1week outage we had 3.5yrs ago when someone cut (stole?) their main net pipe!?:Q
I was down to my last few WUs when it finally came back on,that was close!

I can remember this, that was the greatest Outage ever at Berkeley, the most Queues are emty at this time, thanks for the head up RD

Sir Ulli

wischeez · Jan 7, 2005

Thanks for the heads up RD.......:beer:

Guess I'll have to load up on WU's

Dalephi · Jan 7, 2005

Thanks Rattledagger!

Assimilator1 · Jan 8, 2005

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
I edited my global_prefs.xml to store 1.0 days of work. Should be sufficient, each one takes approx 2 hours...

Couldn't find anywhere else to change that setting.

If your PC runs 24/7 you'll want at least 3 days worth to be safe.
I'm sure RD can tell you how thats done in BOINC

Polo · Jan 8, 2005

My JSetiDoor queue is always storing at least a 5 days buffer.

Thanks for the info RD.

MmmSkyscraper · Jan 8, 2005

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
If your PC runs 24/7 you'll want at least 3 days worth to be safe.
I'm sure RD can tell you how thats done in BOINC

Thanks for that, my 2 crunchers are working 24/7* so I'll bump up to 3 days.

*apart from the 3 freaking power cuts today, and the last was 12 hours after the other two :|

I did try looking on the BOINC site but was obviously in the wrong place. I guess when zaph mentioned the lasting change, he meant if I reinstalled... Plus if I'd done it at the site, I'd only have to do it once, not for every machine, good thing I only have 2! Although more would be nice

Assimilator1 · Jan 8, 2005

More rigs are always good

12hrs with no power! ,that sucks! ,what's going on there then?

Soggys1stBrat · Jan 8, 2005

Originally posted by: wischeez
Thanks for the heads up RD.......:beer:

Guess I'll have to load up on WU's

What he said.

Rattledagger · Jan 9, 2005

Bump, for anyone currently having problems connecting, looks like they've in the process shutting down their servers.

Coquito · Jan 10, 2005

That went pretty smooth. I came back to my pc & the cache is stull full.

Hellburner · Jan 10, 2005

This explains why I can't get any Space Science Lab servers.

BMdoobieW · Jan 10, 2005

Originally posted by: Rattledagger
January 7, 2005
Outage Notice. Because of nearby building construction there will be an extended power outage this coming weekend. All of our machines will be turned off so there will be no data or web service. The outage will begin Sunday, January 9, at 18:00 PST (January 10, 02:00 UT). We hope to be back up Monday at 08:00 PST (16:00 UT).

That explains it. I knew I could come in here and get the answer

Thanks.

reddem0n · Jan 10, 2005

Well 9:14am EST on the 10th now...Still not up yet....What is this filling up queues you guys are talking about?

amdxborg · Jan 10, 2005

Well got a little over 8000wu cached... I could go for 2 weeks...

SirUlli · Jan 10, 2005

Seti Classic and BOINC are back up at this time, but be patient because of the large Number of People who try to connect, it can be difficult to get new Work at this time.

Sir Ulli

Rattledagger · Jan 10, 2005

And their now up again, but as normal after an outage it can be some connection-problems.

JWMiddleton · Jan 10, 2005

Thanks RD, got 111 WUs waiting for an opening!

Assimilator1 · Jan 10, 2005

Originally posted by: reddem0n
Well 9:14am EST on the 10th now...Still not up yet....What is this filling up queues you guys are talking about?

SETI Classic has a 3rd party program called SETI Queue ,its stores WUs so that you can ride out most server outages & internet connection failures.It also serves as a useful central point for mutliple rigs to connect to & check each machines output ,its got lots of stats

I'm gonna miss SETIQ when S@H1 ends *sniff*

My Q isn't able to flush yet ,np as I have plenty of WUs left

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