Merge Hosts

[Darkness Productions]

Did Rosetta disable the merge hosts functionality, or am I missing it?

[rshepard]

They had some problems with it, and had to disable it.

[Darkness Productions]

Damn. Any idea when it might be back? I've got some machines needing to be merged...

[rshepard]

I wouldn't expect it to be soon. Apparently they have to update some database software on the server, and I doubt they'll try to do that in the middle of CASP.

[Darkness Productions]

Double damn... It's just mysql that they're using... shouldn't be too much to upgrade it :(

[PY 222]

This is in their technical news:

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah_technical_news.php


March 22, 2006
Recently our database server has been crushed repeatedly resulting in webserver slowdowns. Tracking all of this down has been a real challenge. This AM it was noticed that during every slowdown someone was trying to 'merge' two client hosts. After eliminating everything else as a possibility we were left to wonder if this merging of hosts could really be a problem. After disasterously wasteful searching of many unrelated issues, it was discovered that SETI@home had this very problem last month [see the entry for February 1, 2006 on the SETI@home Technical News Page]. We have disabled host merges until we can upgrade the database software.

It'll probably be back when they upgrade the BOINC server side code.

[Darkness Productions]

Yeah. I followed the S@H information. They said that upgrading mysql to 4.1.x solved the problem...

Hopefully soon :)