#2921
December 8, 2005 - 03:00 UTC
For the past few days our upload/download server has been dropping connections, making for a frustrating experience for everybody involved. We also had our hands full trying to complete the first stage of the master science database merge.
Currently everybody who is requesting work can get it, thanks to splitting the uploads and downloads onto two separate servers. This isn't reflected yet in the server status page, and it may just be a temporary solution until we somehow obtain a machine capable of doing both. As well, there may be more server shuffling as Classic ramps down.
Meanwhile, we are still dropping connections on the upload server. But the good news is that we are successfully handling about 4 result uploads for every workunit download, which means the upload server is indeed catching up. We're getting about 35 results a second and sending out about 8 workunits a second at the time of writing.
We hit several snags with the master science database merge and were too far in to revert back. Since we were running low on work we went with a backup plan - creating a third database. Since all new workunits and results are being inserted into this third database, we can leisurely migrate the data between the other two databases without any time pressure. This complicates our overall merge plan a bit, but reduces a lot of the stress in the meantime.
#2921