2004-10-13 09:07:01
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October 12, 2004 - 23:00 UTC
Just so you know, the validator was turned back off again. It's seemingly unable to process all the failed uploads from the weekend, so we need to program some workarounds. Sorry about the slow credits in the meantime, but we'd really like to get rid of this backlog, too.
Hey! BOINC Core Client 4.12 has just been released to the public project!
- Matt
October 12, 2004 - 21:00 UTC
We just had an unexpected crash of the new replica database while we trying to format it. Bad disks? Bad cables? Who knows? But we're going to abandon the replica database project for now.
In other news, the validator queue was growing because the validator wasn't running (for various debug reasons). But now it is, and the queue is draining.
- Matt
October 12, 2004 - 18:00 UTC
Here's a general status update after this morning's outage.
1. We put a new disk array (still JBOD - and using software raid) on our current replica database machine. We did this so we could move from raid5 to raid10. The latter is much faster, but requires more disks - so we had to add some disks. We brought the whole project down to switch the hardware, but now we are back up and running while Court is formatting the new raid10 filesystem. We'll start copying the data from the master to the replica shortly.
2. The validator queue is growing again. This could be due to all the chaos this weekend - we'll probably need a bunch more successful result uploads before this queue begins to drain.
3. Regarding complaints that 4.05 is taking much longer: The programmers around here are convinced this has nothing to do with release/debug versions, but we're still looking into it.
- Matt
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