Pausing BRP4 conditionally

Bernd Machenschalk
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The disks of the server that ships BRP4 data are at their (IOPS) limits. The first sign of this is that the file deleter can't keep up deleting all the old data files, visible at the server status page as "Workunits waiting for file deletion". As a result, these old data files pile up, causing further slowdown.

In order to prevent the disk from running full, we disabled sending out BRP4 tasks for a while, until the old files have been purged. I expect this to take a few hours.

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Pausing BRP4 conditionally

Sending out BRP4 work again.

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Not been able to download new

Not been able to download new tasks for a few hours now. Something wrong on server side or am I just unlucky getting a download slot?

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Unsure of the cause but i'm

Unsure of the cause but i'm seeing some download problems. Of all the WU data files a WU has, i have been able to download more then 60% of them but not all files of 1 WU.

Update: It's working like a charm now!

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It's quite possible that we

It's quite possible that we will see some download and work distribution problems in the next few days, as the server is more or less at its limits. Please bear with us while we add additional resources to the project infrastructure.

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We are working on setting up

We are working on setting up a new server to take over half of the load of the BRP4 downloads. However we won't have this in operation until early next week. To get a bit of relief, I disabled the CPU BRP4 Apps for now. This should keep the GPUs busy, and the project currently has enough other work for CPUs.

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The new server is up and

The new server is up and apparently running well.

We re-enabled sending BRP4 CPU tasks.

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