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Thank God for SetiQueue

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SirAllen

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This is the first time since I started using SetiQueue that SETI@home has gone down. It's working great, all 16 of my zombies are still chugging away! Can't believe I took so long to discover it.

BTW, anyone know what's going on? Even their main site is down :frown:
 
Many of us have been there, done that numerous times since we started crunching and vowed never to be caught again. 😉

Maybe they're going through a rolling blackout or something... 🙁
 
Hey SirAllen, with SetiQ and 16 PCs you are going to be kicking butt! Don't know what is going on with SETI. Sometimes the Berkley net access is the problem, but that doesn't seem to be the case as berkley.edu works. When it comes back up it will get hammered for a few hours! So, be patient!
 
i dont have setiq but i do have setidriver. all my machines except one have it and the one that doesnt takes over 60 hours to do one unit.
Caching Rules!
 
This was posted today on alt.sci.seti:

Subject: THE GREAT OUTAGE: More info
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:15:05 -0800
From: Michael Sinatra <michael@rancid.berkeley.edu>
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti,sci.astro.seti


Well, we seem to have isolated the cause:

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS AS YET UNCONFIRMED!!!! DO NOT QUOTE!!!

At about 0330 PST (GMT -0800), a contractor (possibly working for either the City of Berkeley or the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab or maybe even the University) cut a fiber bundle that connects voice and data between the UC Berkeley campus and LBL and other buildings at thetop of the hill, such as the Space Sciences Lab, home of seti@home.
I wish it were something more exciting like bombs or rebellious officecomputers.

Based on past experiences, this will probably require a manual splice, which will likely take all day.

So sit back, relax, hang out at the Clinic or whatever, and give your computer a rest.

One more thing, if you're one of those people who likes to complain about lack of redundancy between the SETI servers and the rest of the world, be prepared to offer free colocation at an enterprise grade facility and/or provide all funding for said service as part of your &quot;suggestion.&quot;

Remember: ET isn't paying for this.

🙂

Michael Sinatra
Network Services
UC Berkeley

The sad thing about the above is the fact that people HAVE offered up &quot;enterprise grade&quot; co-location and have been turned away... But I digress... :|
 
Oh and Curt - doesn't OrangeKid host a TA SETI queue (either Setiqueue or Setigate - forgot which)? Maybe you can grab some WUs through that. I think you'd need an account set up for yourself if it is Setigate...
 
I wasted all day with no SETI WU's and RC5 was not running. 🙁

Right now, I have all my machines cracking RC5 for the SETI team. 🙂(ta_seti@hotmail.com)

I'll set up something with SetiQueue or Orange Kid later.
Now, I have to go spank myself. 🙂
 
Seconding what Poof said.. offers have been made from several other individuals/organizations to help with the S@H hosting, and yes, they have so far been turned away! :|

 
Damn.. and I only have that farm at school cracking seti for me till thursday midnight.. @#*&amp;#$.. went through so much damn trouble.. got busted.. now all the trouble is useless.. life is petty..
<me> kicks himself
<me> is crying
<me> is a big nerd 🙁

hahahahahaha..
 
damnit... i have two to fill now on setidriver... and the week after i take setidriver off my girlfriend's computer because she complains of having too many things in the tray... grrr...
 
The bad thing about the outage is even after it's over and we can manage to UL/DL work units it's going to be extremely slow. Hopefully they can get it back up within the next day or so. I've got a little over 2 days left in my queues right now.

I know the outage sucks so if anyone really needs a few WU's email me HERE and I'll reply with a few WU's from my work queue. I can only afford to send about 3-5 per Email though. We're on a pathetic 4-modem dialup connection and I don't want to bog it down.

Rob
 
Well, I didn't have SetiQ installed yet because of the BETA status.. but it's not a complete loss - I've got the RC5 client loaded on my entire fleet so TA will still get the benefit of all that firepower! 😀

 
i didn't even have setidriver or rc5 started on one of my fleet so its just been sitting here running its fan the past day! doh!
 
Fortunally I was lucky this time.

I set my SQ to buffer 14 days of work.
So I still have close to 300 WUS buffert...
If somebody is running dry... magic.darktech.org port ist 5512
 
thanks for the offer magicman. I may try your server for one of my clients. I have one question though: Doesn't the setiq program store WU for each user, and the first time a new user connects it will act as a pass through for the first WU then download the cached ones? I only ask becuase I don't think new users will be able to actually get WU cause setiq can't get em from berkeley. Am I right?

😎
 
Well just tried it. Couldn't get any WU, but your server accepted my result. interesting. It even shows a new user but tells me 0 WU are cached. Oh well.



😎
 
artemedes - you should be okay. It sounds like he as the older Setiqueue (per his comment about using &quot;5512&quot; as the port, which the old queue's port as opposed to
5517&quot; for the new). The old queue has one big massive pile of WUs since it only supported a single user. HOWEVER, make sure that you keep a copy of your own user_info.sah file to have on hand. The old Setiqueue will give you a copy of the last user_info.sah file sent to it from another client. You would just need to over-write the one you get with yours...
 
Poof,

before I tried it I put &quot;magic.darktech.org:5512&quot; in my browser window, and the new setiq came up. Anyway, my best machines are running fine with my own setiq, but I the machine which is serving up those machines can't seem to connect to itself. I mean it normally runs a cli that points to berkeley rather than the setiq on the same machine. You wouldn't happen to know a fix for this would you?
 
Running SQ 3.04b4

I thought it would distribute the cache WUs across the cache line...


well... I've just moved a few WUS to artemedeses queue..... should work now...
 
artemedes

I had to point the S@H client (also CLI) on my router (running SQ) to the IP (not the hostname) of that mashine. .
I thougth that was nessessary because I have 3 NICs in it (not counting the virtual NIC of my DSL modem...) looks like I was wrong.....
 
artemedes: LOL - I'm sorry, but when I read that you &quot;Couldn't get any WU, but your server accepted my result&quot; I cracked up. I had recently been thinking that someone could easily change the results .ini file with an editor and siphon off WUs in a proxy server. Then I saw where The Magicman was offering others to use his SetiQ. You tried and lost of your production. I know, sick sense of humor! 🙂😀 Of course, you and I both know that The Magicman would never do anything like that!! :Q

You are correct that on your first connection attempt to a SetiQ that it will have nothing for you. It needs to pass-thru to SETI to setup your account. So, I'm not even sure how it will work by copying stuff from another Queue. Good luck and hopefully it will be back soon, but be prepared for a slow restart as they will get hammered for the first 5 or 6 hours!

I have about 2 days worth of WUs left, so I started all boxes doing RC5-64 and SETI. I've set SETI's priority to LOW so that it will take longer to do a WU and about 11% of the CPU will go to RC5. This might extend my stash to 2.5 days. Then it will be RC5 full speed. I'll bet that would make DanC smile!

 
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