SETI@home down time

[Aeromir]

Greetings everyone. I'm a returning member of the team.. I've been out of crunching for a few years but back now. I noticed SETI@Home was down for three days this week. I read on the project web site that happens weekly. Is that right? Seems a bit crazy to take everything offline for 3/7th of the time.

I added a pref to store 5 days of work on each cruncher (I assume that's the best way to handle this). Is that what everyone else does or is this an unusually long down time?

Thanks

 

[Marine Iguana]

Hello welcome back

The outage is not that bad if you set you cache up like you have. I haven't had any problems with it now since it has settled down first few times were a nightmare but it's fine now.

 

[Aeromir]

Good to be back!

I never remembered the old SETI servers being taken off line like that. Just kind of surprised me. Glad to know it's not a problem with a few days of work cached!

 

[TheTross]

Hi Tom, good to see you here

The servers used to be switched off one day a week (on Tuesdays) for maintenance but they found that this wasn't enough time to sort everything out, hence the lengthier outage these days. A three-day outage isn't ideal, but if it helps them to solve any problems they might have then it can only be a good thing and it doesn't really affect anyone as long as their cache is set up to cover it.

 

[Pilgrim57]

Welcome back, Tom.
I saw your thread about getting a 460 so you might want to set the cache at 7 days to make sure your gpu does not run out of work.

The reason that SETI is offline for 3 days is that they are using the servers to process other scientific work, it is not all for maintenance.
Project is offline now due to the air conditioning failing, again.