[sideus]

http://www.d2ol.com/cgi-bin/ultimate...c;f=1;t=000218

All,
Currently, the Structure NAS and the Task Assignment Server no longer communicate with one another. They are both up and functioning - just will not talk to one another.
Correction, for 30 seconds they DO communicate just fine, then the communication hangs then we get zero throughput. The Task Assignment is the one and only machine that connects to the NAS and it just stopped responding Sunday/Monday. Nothing has changed with either of these servers since 2.0 went live nor has there been a single outage with them since then. This is a new problem for us :/

That does this mean for us? Without the NAS, the Task Assignment has no tasks to deploy and clients will receive no new candidates to crunch. Until this comes back on line, we are working with only what is currently in queue and already downloaded.

There is no estimated fix for this at this time. We are still doing root cause analysis and trying every trick we can think of to improve the communication between servers. I will update again tomorrow.

Thank you for your patience.

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Charles Beckius
D20L Forum Administrator

[reader50]

Has anyone worked out a queue for D2OL? If they are down for a few days, this would be the perfect time for MacNN to make a burst up the ranks. We'd just need a healthy queue of units.

[Shaktai]

Originally posted by reader50:
Has anyone worked out a queue for D2OL? If they are down for a few days, this would be the perfect time for MacNN to make a burst up the ranks. We'd just need a healthy queue of units.

Only problem is most users and teams run a several day queue as well. I think it is possible to have up to 2000 with the client, and that is enough to keep even the fastest machines going for a few days.

[druber]

Forum says units should be back out and sending. As Twain said, "Crunch, brothers, crunch with care..."