41) Message boards : Number crunching : Server Thread (Message 5844)
Posted 25 Sep 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:
Fixed
42) Message boards : Number crunching : SSL Error (Message 5843)
Posted 25 Sep 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:
Fixed
43) Message boards : Number crunching : Error notices in BOINC after install on RaspberryPI on the 64 bit OS (Message 5825)
Posted 12 Sep 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:
In:
<alt_platform>arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf</alt_platform>
<options>
</cc_config>

should by:
<alt_platform>arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf</alt_platform>
</options>
</cc_config>
44) Message boards : Number crunching : Error notices in BOINC after install on RaspberryPI on the 64 bit OS (Message 5822)
Posted 12 Sep 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:
What I see that
<options>
you have opened twice, not closed.
45) Message boards : Number crunching : Server Thread (Message 5807)
Posted 6 Sep 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:
It was a power cut over last night in server room.
Everything should be ok now.
46) Message boards : Number crunching : Have tasks other than BHspin v2 been retired? (Message 5786)
Posted 23 Aug 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:
Other apps are used rare, when some results need to be recalculated with different algorithms.
At the moment there is no point to turn it on, but I don't want to remove it as in past I was few times surprised ;)
47) Message boards : Number crunching : Does Universe@Home ever roll over some tasks? (Message 5761)
Posted 14 Aug 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:

db_purge is set to 7 days here.
I was all set to post a response, when i thought i should have a closer look at my results- and those month long ones are due to the resends of Tasks due to missed deadlines. Otherwise they are culled after 7 days.
My apologies.
*slaps self*

Don't apologise.
db_purge doesn't work perfectly. Sometimes I see in database tasks a year old and not deleted. I'm clearing it myself manually.
48) Message boards : Number crunching : Universe@Home on a PI 400? (Message 5760)
Posted 14 Aug 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:
At the moment we don't have Linux Arm 64bit app :(
49) Message boards : Number crunching : Does Universe@Home ever roll over some tasks? (Message 5752)
Posted 13 Aug 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:

I can't see any reason for keeping them for more than a week, but that's what they do here.

db_purge is set to 7 days here.
50) Message boards : Number crunching : server down? (Message 5729)
Posted 31 Jul 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:
Any version that has the updated security certificates.

Or just use the lastest BOINC client. At version 7.20.0 BOINC finally got rid of its own security certificates and now relies on the base OS to handle that function.

Running 7.14.2 from WCG...which has an updated securities.

But no luck. So what is the min.req.ver.?
51) Message boards : Number crunching : Server Thread (Message 5646)
Posted 30 May 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:

<gzip_when_done/>
use this to compress the output file before uploading, see FileCompression

And our files are zipped already (using <gzip_when_done/>).
But this works for single files, not whole result in 6 files. As I already describe in few posts...
52) Message boards : Number crunching : Server Thread (Message 5570)
Posted 19 May 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:
Did you not say once there was a faster network being given to your server?

It was.
When we move to CAMK we got 1Gbit pipe instead of (If my memory still work well) 100 or 300Mbit previously.
53) Message boards : Number crunching : Server Thread (Message 5504)
Posted 17 May 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:
BS shows (as far as I know) only credits awarded from users who allow export data to external services.

Edit:
Probably I'm wrong on this point.
You show me something interesting to check.
I need to make some queries on database to see difference between reported to BS points and what I see on Administrator panel.

But i do it tomorrow.
54) Message boards : Number crunching : Server Thread (Message 5502)
Posted 17 May 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:
Not anymore.
For the first week or two, yes. But for the last few days the overload is so severe that the amount of work they are getting is only abut 1/3 of what they were receiving before the contest started.

Sorry, but no.
This competition starts 05.05. Two weeks will be on 19th.
Usually our project gets 75k-100k results daily, now it is, depend of day 600k-1,2m results daily.
Also, as soon as quantity of results received drop a bit I started work generator to make another 3m of work units ready to go.

Average during this competition project handle 6-10times more work then usually. Average.

Last but not least - project server doing bit more then only sending and receiving tasks ;)
55) Message boards : Number crunching : Server Thread (Message 5498)
Posted 17 May 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:
The problem is now in very large number of concurrent HTTP connections.
Our server handles about 300 simultaneous connections and it is maximum what it can do.

Setting more makes server very unstable (in terms of deamons, not machine or operating system) and cause more problems then it solve.

Most (if not all) BOINC documented method of increasing server performance I have already implemented, but we are limited by network and what system can handle.
56) Message boards : Number crunching : Server Thread (Message 5493)
Posted 17 May 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:
I'm tired of this bullshit project. Fucking server sucks, the whole thing is run by amateurs who don't know what the fuck they're doing. Can't upload shit. Website nearly unresponsive. No sign of any action by the "administrator". Fuck off, I'm gone to put my time into a project that's worth the effort.

Bye
57) Message boards : Number crunching : Server Thread (Message 5413)
Posted 13 May 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:
Universe@Home are 3 servers:
1. Main server
2. Database server
3. Storage server
On main server SSD's are SATA, there is no NVMe ports at all as this is about 7 years old Xeon 1230 machine.
Database server is on NVMe machine and it must be quick, as it doing loads more than only project database serving. It do most work with computation results received from volunteers.
Storage server is already used to storage all results and is used also to manipulate results with other software where results files have to be sorted, analysed etc.

This is what our budged was enough to buy and usually it is quite enough to do all tasks smoothly.

BOINC engine not allow to zip all files on client side together itself. Obviously we can send to volunteers another executable file which will pack result files together but... This doesn't have any sense as the files must be unpacked back on server which will cause in more disk operations and overall server load (but single result files are zipped on client side).

Anyway, we will probably upgrade systems with new grant in about 2 years (obviously if we get it - but with current project results I strongly believe that we get it).
58) Message boards : Number crunching : Server Thread (Message 5396)
Posted 12 May 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:
In last 24h server get:
Success finished tasks: 1'171'604
Tasks with computation error (and others errors) 17'335
Tasks where host didn't contact with server 2'520
Validation errors 67
Orphaned tasks 2160

I didn't expect that this numbers are even possible on our server.
Now we have some problems with disks subsystem (even SSD's are bit to slow to manage this quantity of files).
59) Message boards : Number crunching : Project has no tasks available (Message 5378)
Posted 10 May 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:

Option 2 I think
https://universeathome.pl/universe/show_host_detail.php?hostid=623038

I have checked that this user have quite big RAC and loads of hosts connected (with recent credits).

Edit:
But obviously I see "bunkering" process...
60) Message boards : Number crunching : Server Thread (Message 5366)
Posted 9 May 2022 by Profile Krzysztof Piszczek - wspieram Polski projekt BOINC
Post:
At the moment, every second to server comes back 46 files (4 millions files per day). Also, at the same time some workunits are downloaded.
I'm afraid this the limit where I can't do much more on server.


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