SETI@home Technical News, 07.09.2007.

Rattledagger

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Weirderer (Sep 07 2007)

Last night the assimilators stopped inserting work into the science database. We discovered that one of the indexes on the result table was corrupt - whether or not this was caused by the recent drive failures, or if this had anything to do with the assimilator problem was anybody's guess.

I started off the result index checker last night and quickly after that a THIRD drive failed on thumper in as many days. This is getting ridiculous, especially as there are no apparent signs why the drives are failing, and we're running low on spares.

This morning Bob started rebuilding the corrupt index and once that is finish I'll start the assimilators (hopefully they will be happy) and catch up on the major backlog. Maybe then I'll start the splitters, but given how our science database might tank any second we might hold off on that. In short: there may be no new work until Monday.

- Matt