41) Message boards : Number crunching : Results in progress ? (Message 18648)
Posted 1 Dec 2007 by Keith T.
Post:
The front page shows 0 results in progress, but the server status page shows 3.

According to Scarecrow's LHC pages those 3 results have been in progress for more than a few days.

Could this be linked to the long term pendings?
42) Message boards : Number crunching : Stand back....... (Message 18390)
Posted 27 Oct 2007 by Keith T.
Post:
Just passed 100,000. I think the quota may be going up soon :-)
43) Message boards : Number crunching : Server not reporting "No Work from project" (Message 18312)
Posted 19 Oct 2007 by Keith T.
Post:
I used to be able to browse the list without logging in, but I can't seem to find how I did that...

And even though I have permission to do *whatever* on the wiki (I helped migrate the old documentation into the wiki, so I even have delete permissions) and *whatever* with the bug tickets, I suddenly lost even read permission for the source code and changesets. So I think somebody recently broke Trac permissions. Wouldn't surprise me if tickets are now blocked for everybody, or if only spammers can access the wiki :P


Matt Lebofsky, SETI@home server admin, also does work on the BOINC servers.

In his recent SAH Tech News he stated that he accidentally broke Trac a few days ago.


11 Oct 2007 23:28:33 UTC
I was going to get some programming done today but Dave needed php upgraded on the BOINC server, which was running Fedora Core 6. FC6 didn't have a sufficiently advanced php in its repositories, so this was as good a time as any to yum the system up to Fedora Core 7. This was slow, but worked like a charm.

Except I then realized the trac system (used for BOINC's web based public software development) was toasted due to the upgrade. It took over two hours of hair pulling, scouring log files, removing/reinstalling various software packages, poring through barely informative pages only found in Google's cache.. I don't really understand how what we ultimately did fixed the problem, but we seem to be out of the woods, more or less.

I hate to say it, but trac is written in python, and I've never had any positive experiences with this programming language. Every six months some random python program explodes as it is utterly sensitive to version upgrades, and tracing the problems is impossible as the code is difficult to read and scoured all over the system in vaguely named files. Others keep trying to convince me python is the bee's knees, but I just can't see it. I started out writing raw machine code on my Apple II+, so to me C is the pinnacle of programming languages (not C++). I'll shut up now before I further offend python programmers/developers.

- Matt


See http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/tech_news.php#134 and http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=42913 for more.

Keith.
44) Message boards : Number crunching : Initial Replication (Message 18279)
Posted 18 Oct 2007 by Keith T.
Post:
Just filtered my first troll on LHC.

If you want to do the same just click on http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/edit_forum_preferences_form.php and add the appropriate user id.
45) Message boards : Number crunching : Solid white bar at bottom of graphics display ? (Message 18239)
Posted 17 Oct 2007 by Keith T.
Post:
Is my display correct?

When I choose to View Graphics, I get a display with various themes cycling through. Below that are some particles moving, then my Host credit and Total credit.

Then there is a solid white bar most of the time with a small border at both ends. Occasionally with 1 or 2 of the themes there is some very faint text which is unreadable in this area.

Is it possible to adjust a setting to get this display to show correctly?

Keith

[edit]Just checked again. When the antarctica theme is active a faint progress bar appears in this area with no text inside the bar.[/edit]
46) Message boards : Number crunching : Please note: this project rarely has work (Message 17061)
Posted 20 Jun 2007 by Keith T.
Post:
It would be nice to see the 1.6.2007 home page updated more often.


Hi, my first post here.

I will second that request. Please could you try to update the News on the front page at least once a week, the current latest news item suggests that some test jobs would be coming soon. That was almost 3 weeks ago.

Thanks, Keith



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