Server Down?

[XprincoX]

hmmm... been trying to transmit over the past hr and keep getting

Sending result - connecting to server.
connect: No such file or directory
Can't connect to server; will retry in an hour.

[bobt17]

in about a half hour i will let u know... thats when i am finishing one

[dru]

Berkely says they are up, but I just tried letting Setique send what it had ready, and am consistently getting time-outs.

There seems to be some problems on the Internet at the moment... I work for a site on the west coast, and we just had to have the traffic folk work some of their magic because folks on the east coast were getting timed out....

Times like this you sure appreciate caching WUs...

Dave

[bobt17]

yeah they do seem to be down right now i couldent send one in either hopefully they will get it back up fairly quick lol i only have 4 more work units in my cache

[XprincoX]

how do u dl more than one WU at a time?

[bobt17]

umm ur not useing the screen saver version of seti are you?

[XprincoX]

no the client version....

[bobt17]

heres a linke to everythin u need to get started cacheing work units http://www.ocsetiteam.com/Instr1.htm

too bad u cant get any untill this thing cleares up with the seti server tho

[XprincoX]

interesting... always wondered what that "desired cache size" thing was for. To bad still can't dl the WU yet tho. :beer:

[Sir-Epix]

Still down here, but Berkeley states that the server is up! What is this all about?

[rogerdugans]

Don't know but it is 7:30 am est and still can't connect here- not a problem for the Windows machines, but I have 3 with linux and nothing set up for cache duties! 1 WU ready now, another soon, and I NEED them to hold off Landshark!!!!

Anybody with linux know an easy seti cache app?

[Burning Phoenix]

that sucks because i only have a cache of 2 and they are both done. Also sucks i'm off to work and this is when i can get another 2 or 3 WU's while i'm out after which i i shut down seti for other comuter tasks at night.

[Basher]

I cache a weeks worth of WU's :) I'm good till next week sometime.

[Mictlan]

You should alway have at least 3 days worth of WU.....if I remember right the longer time berkeley has been out has been 3 days!!!!!

As I sometimes go away on trips I have setted my home PC (that connect via modem to the internet) to 10 days of WU (about 30 WU).....

[LandShark]

as of now, 9:55am, the server still down. couldn't get connected.

yeah, u'd better have 'bout 2-4days worth of WU cached just in case. all my machines have 3 days worth of cached WUs.

Roger: don't worry! u r still way ahead of me! ;) and my output is lowering too, since my nephew had been playing games on his rig quite a lot this week. he's rig (PIII 1G) ave. only like 1-2WU a day this all week!

[Morpheus]

Seems like SETI was out for about a week when they had the fiber op cable cut... about a year ago... yes?

Originally posted by Mictlan
You should alway have at least 3 days worth of WU.....if I remember right the longer time berkeley has been out has been 3 days!!!!!

As I sometimes go away on trips I have setted my home PC (that connect via modem to the internet) to 10 days of WU (about 30 WU).....

[Eliminator]

Originally posted by Morpheus
Seems like SETI was out for about a week when they had the fiber op cable cut... about a year ago... yes?


I believe you are right.

That's why I have about 2 weeks of wu's cached on each of my machines. If you have a 40 gig HD and nothing else (or not a lot of programs) on it besides Seti, why not cache a couple of weeks? Otherwise, it seems like an aweful waste of space.

[Basher]

Originally posted by Morpheus
Seems like SETI was out for about a week when they had the fiber op cable cut... about a year ago... yes?



Yep

[lonewolf1983]

server is back up atm
just uploading 4 WU's now
all uploaded ok
only one cache refilled
this makes me think its going again but just overloaded

time is 12:18am perth australia time
im sure the post will tell you guys what time it is there
:)

[Cy]

RogerD,

If you use SETIQueue you can point any client to the cache proxy by editing the start command like this:

./setiathome -verbose -proxy 192.168.0.x:5517

Just use whatever name your seti program is and if you do not want to be able to watch it update the screen you can leave off the -verbose. For the proxy just use the local IP of the machine you are running SETIQueue on with port 5517 (it's default).

HTH

Cy

[TC]

It's about 1:30 EST and I noticed all of my machines have uploaded their results, but are unable to download new units.

[Jon]

I still can't even upload here on the WC.

I still have a couple days worth to keep them busy though.

[Yodums]

I have 1 WU finished and it isn't sending it to them keeps the green satilite in my tray while processing since I put 5 Desired cache thingy.

Yodums

[SDRR]

I'm currently working my final (third) cached w/u. I'm connected and it's d/l'ing at what seems to be a very slow dial-up rate i.e.

Receiving data: 10k
(wait 30 secs)
Receiving data: 20k
(wait 30 secs)

and so on.
:confused:

It's finally finished and it only let me fill one.??

[XprincoX]

still getting a "can't connect to server" O woo is me...... :(

[AudiMan]

Damn! right when i'm treying to set up the command line version, this has to appen. Have been trying for hours! It appears to be overloaded, sometimes I can connect with a timeout, and sometimes it doesn't connect at all.

Let's all hope it comes back soon!

Anyone know how much faster the command line is than the GUI?

[Jon]

Originally posted by AudiMan
Anyone know how much faster the command line is than the GUI?

Quite a bit. Should be at the very least, 20% faster. If you actually used the screen saver part all the time and didn't have it set to go to a blank screen, you'll probably see even better times than that.

[RED Hot Machine]

Its working for me, slowly but its working. :D

[hallen]

Can work units be shifted between machines?

Still can't get through. Trying since 12 noon. Now 4pm.

[RED Hot Machine]

Yes you can copy wu's between machines

[Burning Phoenix]

i've been trying since 8 am this morning and i have seen this warnig on their site!

NOTE: Due to a sudden increase in outgoing bandwidth from the entire UC Berkeley campus, the traffic from our network has been capped at a level greatly below our normal operating levels. Because of this, we are dropping many connections to our data server until we can catch up. To help alleviate this problem, we shut off many web services to reduce our bandwidth (like user account/profile lookups, web searches, etc.). Please bear with us until campus bandwidth levels come back down to earth.

[Cy]

Ouch! Glad I'm not the Network admin out there right about now...

Cy

[AudiMan]

I jsut had hell of a time setting up the command line versions of SETI on my 5 machines. I don't know if it's just me, or it's jsut not very co-operative. Well, I think I set them all up right. and wow, the WU's are processed so much faster!!

By the way, anyone know what "Ready to transmit" means in SETI Driver? On one of my machines, it says "2" but there's no way in hell it finished 2 WU's yet.
If someone can explain to me how SETI driver woks with the queuing and tranmitting things, that would be great!
Thank in advance guys.

[JigPu]

Well, I can't connect either... Good thing I unloaded all my WUs two days ago!! Still got about 3 days of crunching left before my computer realizes to concept of idle time :)

It's times like these that you are DARN happy you can cache WUs, and have such a slow cruncher, it dosen't matter how long they're out, cuz it's going to be a while before you finish a WU anyway!! :)

JigPu

[XprincoX]

aww.... a day of totally wasted cpu cycles.... maybe i'll try out folding for a few days till the servers back online. :burn:

[bobt17]

i was just thinking of doin the same thing but i'v still got about a half hour b4 i'll have to find something else to keep my computer from being idle

[FRANK]

I've been having trouble today also. I've randomly transmitted my WU's "manually", eventually they all went through, although a bit slow. All cached up now.

[AudiMan]

It's funny how one of my computers managed to cache 8 WU's and the other 4 are having no luck :P

[dabhpr]

Still not getting a connection... got two WU's cached for upload and one working, 13 in standby.... I keep a cache of 16, so it would last at least two days.

If it's a capacity problem, it may take some time to resolve, folks.

[AudiMan]

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
(My 2 Cents)

[rogerdugans]

My linux clients all connected today, so they are crunching again- SetiQ is installed and will hopefully start caching for al the linux boxes at least; Thanks for the info Cy!:)

The windows machines still have some left.....for a little while!

[AudiMan]

Looks like my chache is slowly building up too.

I'll just let the computers do all the work on this one :P

[lonewolf1983]

yea i still cant download much at all
at least i have 5 days of WU's backed up and another day or two of WU's on floppies
:D

hopefully the server usage will come back down ASAP

[AudiMan]

You copied WU's to floppies?? LMAO!!
That's cool hehehehe

[hallen]

I'm picked up 1 new wus in each of two machines. I'm single shotting to keep bandwidth down. Working well. Triage.

[AudiMan]

Holy $hite! You have like 10 GHZ in SETI power there! Are all those computers in one house????? What's your rank in OC seti club?

[XprincoX]

WOOHOO!! finally transmitted my WU and dled a plethora this time... just in case :D

[Basher]

Originally posted by AudiMan
Holy $hite! You have like 10 GHZ in SETI power there! Are all those computers in one house????? What's your rank in OC seti club?


232 was 765 about 2 weeks ago. He is flying :)

[XprincoX]

ok now that the servers back up i've got more WUs cached on my hd.. now how would i move the WU from one machine to another? Just copy the entire numbered folder? Would it matter if the WU is in progress?

[Basher]

Originally posted by Xprincox
ok now that the servers back up i've got more WUs cached on my hd.. now how would i move the WU from one machine to another? Just copy the entire numbered folder? Would it matter if the WU is in progress?


Shut seti down then copy the WU's. Should be fine if it is in progress. May start over though.

[hallen]

Originally posted by AudiMan
Holy $hite! You have like 10 GHZ in SETI power there! Are all those computers in one house????? What's your rank in OC seti club?

Audiman- I just realized last night that I need a degree in HVAC to keep things going. Everytime I find an outlet I add two machines. So far so good.

Harvey

[XprincoX]

hmm... now wouldn't the electric bill be just OUTRAGous with many systems... :D

[dabhpr]

Note: Just increased my cache to 48... just in case!

:D

[JigPu]

Originally posted by dabhpr
Note: Just increased my cache to 48... just in case!

:D
Same here.... Only not 48WUs... :D

Finaly connected just now, and have increased my cache to 7WUs for a full week of crunching power. :rolleyes:

JigPu

[AudiMan]

I installed queing support yesterday, and have 15 chaches for 3 machines, and 10 for the P3's. That's about 2-3 days of work.,,, I think I should adjust it higher when I get home from work,,,,just incase.
I set a personal record! 2:57 hrs/WU on Athlon XP1700 8KHA+!!!!

[Sir-Epix]

It seems me and Berkeley both have something in common. Server problems. My hub is acting up, and I am losing like 20 work units a day. Darn hub. Oh well going to have to wait to fix it...Have to build yet another SETI cruncher.

[rogerdugans]

Problems abound! My fast duallie has been dying for an undetermined reason for a week.

I know why now and am trying to repair, but mobo soldering sucks! Running for 30 minutes now, and holding!

Good luck to all with hardware difficulties, and I hope Seti@home keeps things straight!!!

[Rickdstik]

Originally posted by Xprincox
hmmm... been trying to transmit over the past hr and keep getting

Sending result - connecting to server.
connect: No such file or directory
Can't connect to server; will retry in an hour.

I wont ever get caught like that again ... lost 36 hours due to no cache ... plus it looks like with Driver it might be a little faster.

[XprincoX]

stocking up on them WU's here too.. but too much caches takes up too much space at about 350k a piece. :D

[Rickdstik]

Originally posted by Rickdstik


I wont ever get caught like that again ... lost 36 hours due to no cache ... plus it looks like with Driver it might be a little faster.
Yeah but on a 40GB hard drive with only 4GB of it used on the T-bird, stocking up on 30 WUs isnt a big deal. And at 5-6 hours a shot, 30 really isnt a lot.

[AudiMan]

Rickdstik

I noticed you have a celeron tualatin 1.1. I'm interested in a Tualatin myself, how long does it take for that sucker to do a WU on average?

[outhouse]

AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAH

My 6 W\U's have run out !

this is the first time i have not had a W\U to crunch

AH AH AH AH AH I'm naked! without it

hopefully they will get there act together soon.

[AudiMan]

I still have plenty WU's cached, but one of them is yellow(ready to be transmitted) it appears that there is still a slight overload on the server no?

[Sir-Epix]

Originally posted by AudiMan
I still have plenty WU's cached, but one of them is yellow(ready to be transmitted) it appears that there is still a slight overload on the server no?

If you read the article in the tech notes, basically it states...."Help us out, please upload/download at night when our students aren't hogging bandwidth." I got some to upload here at home for my Celeron. I will try to do it at night...Remember people UC berkeley is on the West Coast.

[XprincoX]

OMG!!! just tried transmitting some completed WU's and got the "cannot connect to server; try again in hr" BS AGAIN!! Luckily this time, im prepared and have WU's on reserve. :burn:

[AudiMan]

Yup, it looks like its slowing down again. But i'm prepared.

[JigPu]

Originally posted by outhouse
AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAH

My 6 W\U's have run out !

this is the first time i have not had a W\U to crunch

AH AH AH AH AH I'm naked! without it

hopefully they will get there act together soon.
Just play some Yatta and wear a leaf. It should help a little for a short time :D

Well, my usual upload time is around 6:00PM (when I get to the SETI portion of the fourums... It's a great upload reminder :)), and since I'm PST, I know when it's late for them. I'll try for a little later...

JigPu

[rogerdugans]

I am prepared now! I have SetiQ running (excellent program, btw: I may even stop using MultiSetiMonitor soon) and cacheing a weeks worth of work units. Plus, Seti Driver is cacheing at least 1 days worth of units on each pc.

NOTE: One thing that is really excellent about SetiQ is that you can change the amount of time between wu downloads: it defaults at 20 minutes (I think) but you can set it for much less: I downloaded about 100 yesterday.

[Jon]

Looks like Berkeley is either swamped or down again. Have had about 15 more waiting to transmit over the past few hours and haven't been able to get them up.

Anyone still having trouble? Had no problems early this morning.

[AudiMan]

I've had problems this morning, and I still have a few to transmit.
I have a total of 63 WU's cache which would last me less then 2.5 days. I think I should up the cache incase,,,

[XprincoX]

Still a No go here.... AHH my reserves are rapidly running low!! :eek:

[rogerdugans]

Gentlemen: May I point you toward SetiQ! The wonder program that will cache units for 1 pc, or a network of mixed Linux/Windows machines.

And appears to cache the incoming and outgoing wu for the pcs.

And can be set to retry connecting as frequently as....every minute!
As opposed to once an hour.

You WILL get through.

[XprincoX]

yes get setiQ here (http://www.reneris.com/seti/download.asp) :burn:

[eobard]

Well I managed to send mine off but I'm about an hour into waiting for the new ones to be downloaded. :rolleyes:

[killem1x1]

I was screwing with the benchmark, and lost my seti folder ( I deleted it while I was rarring it up :()
So, now I'm sitting here with no w/u's on one machine, can I copy some from my another system?

[rogerdugans]

Yes, you can copy a wu from one to another: just grab the folder(s) and cut and paste it, then restart SetiDriver. Done it more than a few times. Its also how I do clean reinstalls on systems.

[eobard]

Well I waited 6 hours but I finally got 1 wu downloaded!!!!! I'm offended that that makes me happy. :rolleyes: Still, better than nothing. :beer:

[dabhpr]

The reason I've upped my cache to 48 is: I burn through slightly over 6 WU's a day, and this gives me just over a week of cached units, JUST IN CASE.

Don't want to jinx anything, but the next time one of those big 'ole Yellow Cablefinders (backhoe) "discovers" some fiber, I want to be prepared.

There's no harm in having the extra units, and with 130 GB of storage at my disposal, there's no shortage of space, either.

:D

So, I'll keep the big cache for safety's sake.