New to seti

[Calidan]

Hiya folks, just signed up and wanted to say hi :)

I think i set the boinc client up right per the sticky but so far it wont DL any work. guess ill do some more reading and try to figure out why.

[rusauced]

Servers are down right now for maintenance as you can see here.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html

Once they are back up you should be able to DL work.

[Brightmorn]

Anyone have any idea when SETI will be comming back online? My home machines have run out of workunits already... Guess I need to adjust my preferences again so that doesnt happen, hah!

[eaglescouter]

Good idea Brightmorn, increase your number of days between contact to 5 or 7.

[Dk Jedi Allianc]

1. Increase the number of days in your prefs.

2. Consider support of other BOINC project - so when one is down - you still can manage to do some work :cool:

Ohhh and :welcome: to SETI :p

[Hamm3r]

Welcome to BOinc :welcome:

[Calidan]

Been trying since last night to get work, anyone have an ETA on when it will be up ?

[eaglescouter]

Try tomorrow morning at the soonest:

August 24, 2005 - 22:00 UTC
Once the length of an outage goes beyond a certain point, the potential deluge of users hitting our servers upon return cannot possibly get any worse (because at some point everybody is waiting for work). That said, we decided to keep the scheduler off again for at least another night so we could battle the current problems some more.
To reiterate, the current problems are (a) a severe backlog of results to validate, and (b) the disks array holding the results/workunits is filling up. We let the "antique" deleter run all night last night - it has removed 70% of antique results so far (for more information about this see the previous posts below).

After our normal database backup, we then turned on all the backend processes (validation, assimilation, and regular file deletion) so that all those queues could drain. Actually, only the validator queue is the bottleneck, but as it drains the assimilator/file deleters have to work to keep up.

[Calidan]

Thank you :)