[volunteergrid2-l] How's the grid

[Shawn Willden]

With that much RAM, swapping shouldn't be a problem.

You can look at the status link I mentioned to see what Tahoe is doing.  It
has some timing information.

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Ted Rolle, Jr. <stercor at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I'm running Ubuntu's System Monitor:
>
> CPU History:
> CPU1: about 30%; CPU2: about 30%
>
> Memory and Swap History:
> Memory: about 50% 1.9 GiB (52.7%) of 3.6 GiB
>   Swap: 553.1 MiB (14.4%) of 3.7 GiB
>
> Network History:
> Varies...Now both Receiving and Sending are flat-lined at 0.0 KiB/second.
> Receiving peaks at 100 KiB/sec, then goes flat at 0 bytes/sec; Sending
> does the same thing.
>
> After I changed the shares, tahoe seems to be going better.
>
> Where should I look to see tahoe's performance?
>
> Ted
>
>
> On 03/03/2012 04:03 PM, Shawn Willden wrote:
>
> For some reason, setting shares.happy to shares.total causes problems.
>  I've reported this to the developers.
>
>  However, that's a separate issue from the fact that your node often
> blocks for a long time before responding.  Could it be swapping, as slush
> suggested?
>
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Ted Rolle, Jr. <stercor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Something's not quite right here, but I don't know how to fix it...I'd
>> actually have to read the manual...
>> Here's the failure message (CLI)
>> shares.needed = 4
>> shares.happy = 8
>> shares.total = 8
>>
>> raise
>> UploadUnhappinessError(msg)\x0aallmydata.interfaces.UploadUnhappinessError:
>> shares could be placed on only 4 server(s) such that any 4 of them have
>> enough shares to recover the file, but we were asked to place shares on at
>> least 8 such servers. (placed all 8 shares, want to place shares on at
>> least 8 servers such that any 4 of them have enough shares to recover the
>> file, sent 16 queries to 12 servers, 7 queries placed some shares, 9 placed
>> none (of which 0 placed none due to the server being full and 9 placed none
>> due to an error))\x0a"
>>
>> Changed the shares to:
>>
>> shares.needed = 4
>> shares.happy = 5
>> shares.total = 8
>>
>> It works.  I use unique share numbers for diagnosis.
>> Are there better numbers for shared.n/h/t?
>> Will these number change as the grid grows?
>>
>> Ted
>>
>>
>> On 03/03/2012 10:59 AM, Shawn Willden wrote:
>>
>> What are your shares.needed, shares.happy and shares.total values?
>>
>>
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