SETI@home stats not updating?

DrBob · Post by **DrBob** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:44 pm

My counter stats for SETI@home have not updated since 2/21 which by coincidence is the day they switched to their new ISP.
Anyone else having this problem?

Post by **Neil** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:40 am

Hi,

I'm currently away on business - I'll check it out when I get back next weekend.

According to e-mails from my update scripts, the Seti user XML file is currently corrupted with duplicate user entries. As a result my scripts will not update the stats if it detects any possible data mismatches.

They will update once the XML files are not corrupted.

I only have very limited Internet access, but will try when I can to keep an eye on the site.

Cheers,

Neil (in the US)

Post by **Neil** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 2:19 pm

Hi again,

It appears the Seti XML user file has sorted itself out and updates have resumed as normal.

Cheers,

Neil.

Crystallize · Post by **Crystallize** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:46 am

Actually it seems like they didn't, the last update for SETI was on
05:23:04 26/02/2007 GMT which is a week ago...

My sig says 588922 but I now have just over 600000 CS in SETI

clarkf1 · Post by **clarkf1** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:06 am

Yeah, I'm not crunching SETI at the moment, but the Widget has 24/02/2007 as the date even though the projects I am crunching are updating.

Post by **Neil** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:25 pm

Hi,

The Seti XML user stats have duplicate user entries in them at the moment, which causes problems with MySQL, as you can't have two unique entries.

This happened last week as well whilst I was away, but the stats were ok for a couple of days, but they're screwed again.

There's not much I can do my end, but wait for them to fix their XML files.

Cheers,

Neil.

Post by **Neil** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:05 am

Hi,

Following a workaround I put in my update script to skip over duplicate entries in the Seti@Home user XML file, the stats are now up to date again.

Cheers,

Neil.

Crystallize · Post by **Crystallize** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:45 pm

SETI isn't updating again !

last update: Seti@Home 05:01:59 01/06/2007 GMT

which is 3 days ago !

Post by **Neil** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:10 pm

Hi,

The duplicate entry problem for Seti has reared its head again. This has also been discussed on the BOINC mailing list.

It turns out that this is a "feature" of the revised db_dump script at Seti and it causes trouble for stats sites like myself.

I have re-enabled my earlier fix, but it does increase the length of time that the script takes to run.

Hopefully all will be well tomorrow.

Cheers,

Neil.

Post by **Neil** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:34 pm

Hi,

The Seti stats still haven't updated.

I've upped the logging to see what is going on.

Cheers,

Neil.

Post by **Neil** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:51 pm

Hi,

All is working now.

Cheers,

Neil.

Crystallize · Post by **Crystallize** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:08 pm

Great

Crystallize · Post by **Crystallize** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:07 pm

SETI isn't updating again, even if the statistics page says so, it doesn't.
I just beat 900K in SETI, the day before yesterday and according to the stats sig, I still have only 899(something)K

Post by **Neil** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:10 pm

Hi,

It's not my fault - Seti have not updated their stats since September 3rd as can be seen from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/stats/.

So my stats script is running as normal, it just hasn't got access to the latest stats.

Cheers,

Neil.

Crystallize · Post by **Crystallize** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:13 pm

hm, ok, fair enough...