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Send message Joined: 15 Jul 05 Posts: 247 Credit: 5,974,599 RAC: 0 |
We are having database problems and have to schedule an intervention at 3:30pm UTC. The LHC@home servers are back again. We may have some irregular dispatching of some applications over the next hours. |
Send message Joined: 24 Oct 04 Posts: 1167 Credit: 53,821,209 RAC: 49,952 |
17 hours later and still NOTHING |
Send message Joined: 15 Jul 05 Posts: 247 Credit: 5,974,599 RAC: 0 |
Sorry Magic, you are wrong. We have added 2 additional scheduler hosts last night that serve Sixtrack tasks while the main host boincai01 does a slow database query for all applications. While these other 2 servers reply to the alias lhcathome.cern.ch, the server status page shows the main host boincai01 and daemons as not running, although they are and other daemons are running too, but not shown in the page. The scheduler will from time to time reply: "No tasks available" and only drip-feed ATLAS, CMS and Theory tasks right now, but Sixtrack tasks should be served every 10 minutes or so. This is a workaround while trying to get back to our regular speed of serving tasks. Please note that a change of database server did not help much. |
Send message Joined: 24 Oct 04 Posts: 1167 Credit: 53,821,209 RAC: 49,952 |
How am I wrong?? I even post a picture of the server status and state the FACT that I get NOTHING from the server that is a VB task. AND still am not getting new Theory or CMS VB tasks.....that is a fact AND that has nothing to do with Sixtrack BUT I do get CMS VB at -dev so I guess I could switch the 50 cores over there. |
Send message Joined: 15 Jul 05 Posts: 247 Credit: 5,974,599 RAC: 0 |
Correct, right now there are very few VB tasks being shipped. We have just started a 4'th scheduler server that should soon ship VB tasks. We hope to get back to our usual operation later, meanwhile this parallelised server setup is a workaround to ensure that enough tasks are flowing for Sixtrack. Tasks for other apps will slowly be coming along later. |
Send message Joined: 18 Dec 15 Posts: 1783 Credit: 116,920,064 RAC: 68,434 |
Nils, how can it be that the Server Status Page still shows only "running" for the Scheduler, for the rest of the programs it shows "stopped" ??? |
Send message Joined: 15 Jul 05 Posts: 247 Credit: 5,974,599 RAC: 0 |
Nils, how can it be that the Server Status Page still shows only "running" for the Scheduler, for the rest of the programs it shows "stopped" ??? Because the cache of the server status page shows the information for the server boincai01 and the server showing you the page is another host boincai02, boincai03 etc. Our server configuration does not show the status of remote daemons on other hosts. (We could display a page for each server, but this has other side effects.) The daemons and services are running on boincai01, and we have 3 other servers running schedulers and feeders. But you will see this page with "not running" entries intermittently for a few days. Delivery of other applications than Sixtrack will be slow until the backlog of Sixtrack tasks has been reduced. |
Send message Joined: 18 Dec 15 Posts: 1783 Credit: 116,920,064 RAC: 68,434 |
Nils, thanks for the information. |
Send message Joined: 18 Dec 15 Posts: 1783 Credit: 116,920,064 RAC: 68,434 |
... until the backlog of Sixtrack tasks has been reduced.what I have noticed for the past few hours: also delivery of Sixtrack tasks sucks once in a while. |
Send message Joined: 15 Jul 05 Posts: 247 Credit: 5,974,599 RAC: 0 |
Yes, and the DB went down around 8pm. Restarted now. |
Send message Joined: 30 Aug 14 Posts: 145 Credit: 10,847,070 RAC: 0 |
Thank you very much for your work, even at such a late hour! I hope things go back to normal soon, i want my Atlas native tasks back :-) Why mine when you can research? - GRIDCOIN - Real cryptocurrency without wasting hashes! https://gridcoin.us |
Send message Joined: 18 Dec 15 Posts: 1783 Credit: 116,920,064 RAC: 68,434 |
all my finished Sixtracks were uploaded, but stay in status "ready for reporting". And even for Sixtrack now (like so far for the VM subprojects which had their problems), when pushing the "update" button, it says "Communication deferred 01:00:00". Something seems to go very wrong there, I'm afraid. |
Send message Joined: 18 Dec 15 Posts: 1783 Credit: 116,920,064 RAC: 68,434 |
good morning, the database problem obviously still exists, no VM tasks can be downloaded. Also, I notice that access to the Webpage sometimes sucks. To me, there seems to be a larger problem than originally assumed and/or communicated. Could it be that LHC was victim of a hacker attack? |
Send message Joined: 2 May 07 Posts: 2228 Credit: 173,737,756 RAC: 21,742 |
Theory(native) get tasks. |
Send message Joined: 24 Oct 04 Posts: 1167 Credit: 53,821,209 RAC: 49,952 |
I would like to know why even though all of my settings are for Theory tasks the server keeps sending me Sixtrack tasks???? I have had them set that way for over a year and now when I try to get tasks it sends me only ones I do NOT want. First it sent me CMS and now Sixtrack......and of course I have been doing this a long time so it isn't at my end. 1am and this now...... |
Send message Joined: 2 Sep 04 Posts: 455 Credit: 199,993,634 RAC: 46,368 |
Could it be that LHC was victim of a hacker attack? Nope, it is not a hacker attack, it is Pentathlon-Time and LHC is Project for Sprint Supporting BOINC, a great concept ! |
Send message Joined: 30 Aug 14 Posts: 145 Credit: 10,847,070 RAC: 0 |
Pentathlon hasn't startet yet...but whatever... I want my Atlas tasks back, but i can not get any :-( Why mine when you can research? - GRIDCOIN - Real cryptocurrency without wasting hashes! https://gridcoin.us |
Send message Joined: 2 Sep 04 Posts: 455 Credit: 199,993,634 RAC: 46,368 |
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Send message Joined: 30 Aug 14 Posts: 145 Credit: 10,847,070 RAC: 0 |
My apologies, you are right of course. People are filling their queues with LHC tasks. You got Atlas tasks? You lucky dog :-) Since the problem with the database startet i did not get a single Atlas native task. Not a chance :-( If i would not allow sixtrack tasks too, my machine would sit idle doing nothing at all. Cheers! Why mine when you can research? - GRIDCOIN - Real cryptocurrency without wasting hashes! https://gridcoin.us |
Send message Joined: 2 May 07 Posts: 2228 Credit: 173,737,756 RAC: 21,742 |
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