Not sure if anyone is aware of this but the XML stats for CPDN seem to be broken. several of the files have nothing in them. My XML loader hasn't been able to update in 36 hours now.

FYI :)

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I have not had any trickles credited in the past 16 hours, and I suspect that from all the miscellaneous reports we are getting of database oddities that the servers are in a mess. Unfortunately, the only person who may be able to fix them is reported to be away this week.

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Trickles have been working for a couple days now, but the XML file has not been done in over 100 hours, now. Can we get a fix on this?

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> Trickles have been working for a couple days now, but the XML file has not
> been done in over 100 hours, now. Can we get a fix on this?
>

I think we will just have to wait until Tolu is back from vacation... ;-)

Double post

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Well, it's Tuesday, and stats are 6 days old... Is there any news anyone can share?

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> Well, it's Tuesday, and stats are 6 days old... Is there any news anyone can
> share?
>
I sent him an e-mail telling him about it yesterday. I haven't gotten a reply yet.

As near as I can tell, XML stats are having problems of one kind or another on all the projects. Or it may be that the errors in SETI@Home and CPDn are causing the issues. All I know is that I am seeing low stats or none at all for every project.

And when I say low, I mean very low. Everyone is in the same boat as far as I can tell, my overall position in the global stats is not shifting, so, that means that we are not unfairly penalized.

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Tolu responded to the e-mail and said he is looking into it now.

XML appears to be back but there is some oddity in the hosts file that was causing my parser to crash. I thought we had fixed the XML escaping problems a few months ago but there seems to be a new one. Unless this is just a fluke with all the problems...

As for the other projects... seti apparently filled up the drive that was holding the XML (they keep a daily copy for archival purposes). This caused all kinds of strange behavior that produced extremely bad files which caused some stats sites to nuke their seti tables. Mine just saw problems and aborted the update, leaving old (but accurate) data in place. LHC is working but we ran them out of work units so very few new credits are being handed out right now. I just noticed a few minutes ago that einstein is also overdue for an XML update. No "problems" with it... just nothing new published in 38 hours. So that leaves predictor and pirates that are still up and running with XML as they should be. As far as I can tell there isn't any BOINC-wide problem but 3/6 active projects just happened to develop problems at the same time. Seems a little fishy but I see no link between them right now... maybe I need new glasses :)

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See also Carl's post in <a href="http://www.climateprediction.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=2960">this thread</a>.

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Toby,

Haven't you noticed? We seem to get these cascades of one project having problems and then several more add in ...

Mr. Murphy at his best. :)

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Looks like it's sorted - Thanks.

Check your stats site!!!!

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&gt; Toby,
&gt;
&gt; Haven't you noticed? We seem to get these cascades of one project having
&gt; problems and then several more add in ...
&gt;
&gt; Mr. Murphy at his best. :)

How true :) Fortunately there are now so many projects that this domino effect stops before all go "down" *lol*

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&gt; How true :) Fortunately there are now so many projects that this domino effect
&gt; stops before all go "down" *lol*

Yeah, the trouble is that we keep skirting death with only one project left ...

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&gt; &gt; How true :) Fortunately there are now so many projects that this domino
&gt; effect
&gt; &gt; stops before all go "down" *lol*
&gt;
&gt; Yeah, the trouble is that we keep skirting death with only one project left
&gt; ...

So, the message would be: Keep those new projects comming :D

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&gt; &gt; &gt; How true :) Fortunately there are now so many projects that this
&gt; domino
&gt; &gt; effect
&gt; &gt; &gt; stops before all go "down" *lol*
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Yeah, the trouble is that we keep skirting death with only one project
&gt; left
&gt; &gt; ...
&gt;
&gt; So, the message would be: Keep those new projects comming :D

Oh, my yes ...

Or, just keep them all on the air ... I really like the objective of LHC@Home, though I still can't figure out their screen saver.

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&gt; Or, just keep them all on the air ... I really like the objective of LHC@Home,
&gt; though I still can't figure out their screen saver.

AFAIK they are still tweaking the screensaver, although it's low on their priority list (science app being on top of that, naturally). But what is it you can't figure out?

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According to the host XML file CPDN lost half of the host supporting it. I could post a graph of it, but you can find it on BOINCstats in the CPDN projectoverview.

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I watched to hosts XML closely the last days, and I think something is wrong here. There are less then 1 host per user, which can't be. In my personal stats I miss a lot of hosts.

I thinks this needs to be looked at by the developers.

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