Einstein down.

[dAVE]

Got this message from the Einstein server. Wish I had a big cache dAVE.

Einstein@Home STATUSAt approximately 03:00 UTC November 24, a critical file server failed.We hope to have this repaired and working by 07:00 UTC November 25.This is our first project downtime in more than 160 days.More information will be posted here as we have it.If you are new to the project, please come back here in a day or two!If you are already participating in Einstein@Home, there is no need forany action on your part. Please just be patient.Thank you, Bruce Allen David Hammer

[mitchellds]

Einstein@Home STATUS

[Last update: Thu Dec 7 19:42:12 UTC 2006]

Einstein@Home will be offline until further notice.

Two disks have failed in the main file server. This server uses a raid6
array so we cannot afford any to lose any more disks. The project will
remain offline until the raid array has time to rebuild.

[NeoGen]

I've heard of RAID systems up to 5, and thought they were great... but what is a RAID6??

[Nflight]

I've heard of RAID systems up to 5, and thought they were great... but what is a RAID6??

A Raid 6 is also known as a Raid 10, which is a Raid 5 setup that is mirrored.

[Beerknurd]

This project has the worst servers ever... This project is up then down, up then down, up then down.... Horrible..... Hopefully it isn't like this all the time...

[gamer007]

It was fine for the last few years. This seems to be a recent problem.

[Beerknurd]

I will give it a few more days...

[mitchellds]

yep, its getting aggravating for sure

[Steve Lux]

Where I work we used to have cronic disk problems on the back side of our facility. I eventually realized we were experiencing vibration from the close proximity to the railroad, so I installed cushions under the PC's and we stopped having premature disk failures. Any time I hear of multiple disk failures I think of such problematic sources.

[dAVE]

IMHO the problem is that we are getting to the end of a run and only short WUs are available. The strain on the scheduler is making the cracks show. Hopefully in a week or two we will be on the next run with lots of long WUs and all will be well. dAVE.