[D.Folding] Project server troubles explained - Dutch Power Cows

maandag 18 maart 2002 16:24

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Originally posted by Biran the Fist:
Hello all,

I just wanted to take a moment to point out the cause of the server trouble. I am shocked that everyone is so upset over this but anyways because the new protein builds about 5x faster than the first one, our puny server cannot deal with the load and cannot handle all the uploads it is receiving, hence the Unable to Contact Server messages some of you have been receiving. It has around 25 uploads coming in simultaneously non-stop (as opposed to 3-4 beforehand).

Unfortunately we do not have the funding right now to get a newer more powerful server (I've found a nice Dual-P4 Xeon server available for about $2500 US) so what I intend to do is change the upload period to 25000 instead of 5000 for this protein. If those of you running on many CPUs apply this patch (when I provide it) it will hopefully ease the load on the server. If not, I can assure you that when we switch to the next protein I'll choose a larger one and it should work as smooth as it was before the new protein.

Incidentally, I've fixed two or three bugs with the auto-update - this was the first large scale test of it. Of course the auto-update that you got (one way or another) won't have these fixes so the bug is still there, but in the NEXT next auto-update it should work quite well I hope. In other words You will probably have to do one more manual update to get the auto-update fixes.

Anyhow, I will attempt to get a version out Monday with these auto-update fixes and with the 25000 upload period and hopefully that will improve things.

Sorry for the inconvenience and we hope you will be patient while we do our best to improve things.

Please pass this info on to other Forums if you participate in some others.

Howard

maandag 18 maart 2002 16:28

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Goed bezig. Dus ze verhogen nu de flush buffer. Da's mooi, als ze nu gelijk een mogelijkheid tot handmatig flushen inbouwden dan kon ik een paar dial-up systemen assimileren....

Toch maar eens een andere sig bedenken :P

maandag 18 maart 2002 16:36

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gelijk effe gevraagd

maandag 18 maart 2002 16:54

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Deze Quote kwam ik ook nog tegen, al is dat in de DPCH's ook al aan de orde geweest.

You have probably been experiencing a message to the effect of 'unable to contact server' with the newest protein. This is because it is building too fast for our server to handle. To remedy this, I've changed the upload frequency from 5000 to 1000 structures, to result in smaller uploads. Head over to the Download section at www.distributedfolding.org to grab this for the Windows or Redhat 7.1 client. Other versions will be updated shortly. You will need to delete 'filelist.txt' after copying this new client before you start running it, to clear your structure cache. Sorry for this inconvenience

maandag 18 maart 2002 17:40

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Vandaag is er een nieuwe client uitgekomen!

http://distributedfolding.org/Download.html

Deze zal niet alles oplossen, maar zal dingen ook zeker niet slechter maken:

03/18/2002

- Power shutdown tomorrow night - due to circumstances beyond our control, our institute has a scheduled power shutdown from 11pm EST (GMT -5:00) on Mar. 19 until 5am EST Mar. 20. During this time, our servers will must likely be powered off. We apologize for any inconvenience.

- The update has been posted to make the client wait longer for a response when uploading data, which should fix most of the "unable to contact server" problems. We intend to upgrade the server as well in the next week or so, and as well, at the rate we're going it won't be long until we are ready to switch to building the next protein, which will be bigger and thus less of a load on the sever in terms of upload frequency. We've already made 160 million just over the weekend despite some of the upload troubles! Good work!

maandag 18 maart 2002 19:32

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hehe, ze gaan er wat aan doen.
Nou veel suc6 daarzo heren.

maandag 18 maart 2002 19:41

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Op maandag 18 maart 2002 19:32 schreef PowerCow het volgende:
hehe, ze gaan er wat aan doen.
Nou veel suc6 daarzo heren.

Via de auto-update is de upload frequency ook bijgesteld.

Was net klaar met eten en ik zie dat mijn client nu elke 10,000 structures gaat uploaden.

Nu krijgt die server hopenlijk ook wat meer tijd om bij te komen

maandag 18 maart 2002 20:00

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Op maandag 18 maart 2002 19:41 schreef Glorfindel het volgende:
Was net klaar met eten en ik zie dat mijn client nu elke 10,000 structures gaat uploaden.

Dat zou dus 25.000 moeten zijn, maar msschien hebben ze zich bedacht.

maandag 18 maart 2002 20:26

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