Seti for BOINC scheduled outage 05.10.2004 at 17:00 UTC.

[Rattledagger]

October 4, 2004
There will be an outage tomorrow morning (17:00 UTC) for several hours for database reconfiguration. Specifically, the transitioners and validators are falling way behind, making the crediting process quite slow. Last week we successfully created a replica database on a system with a much faster disk array than the master database system. Tomorrow, we hope to swap the two, as the database is seemingly I/O bound and faster disks will mean faster database queries which in turn will mean the validator/transitioner queues should quickly drain.

 

[SirUlli]

and as we know Berkeley, to severall Hours comes often severall Days....

Sir Ulli

 

[imported_Thunder]

Evidently not this time!

October 5, 2004 UPDATED: We successfully swapped our database hardware, giving the master database access to much faster disks. Within a couple hours weeks-old queues drained completely. We're not completley done with the swap, but all parts of the BOINC system are back up and running full blast.

 

[Rattledagger]

October 5, 2004
The disk array holding the upload and download directories failed again this afternoon. This is entirely different hardware than what was involved with the database upgrade depicted below. Currently the volumes on this disk array is resyncing, which means the scheduling server will be off for the evening. In layman's terms - you can't send/receive work for the next ten hours or so.