Checking today and the graph looks fine and so does the one I posted earlier.
So it seems to have fixed itself...
I'll post again if it stops updating.
My graph is also missing the most recent day spike this morning. But this is a page I look at daily (not to see the graph, but as a path to the task lists to check for error or invalid tasks), and this is the first time in many weeks without the spike. Unless something has been changed, I predict it will return.
My graph is also missing the most recent day spike this morning.
I too can confirm that this 'spike' was there regularly (but not always) in the past.
I have the account -> dashboard page permanently open in a tab in firefox because of the various links to other stuff (prefs, server status, apps, full hosts list, message inbox, etc) that reside there. The spike was visually annoying and by trial and error I noticed that it seemed to appear if I refreshed the page before midnight UTC (morning my time) but it would quite often NOT appear and give a much better looking graph, if I refreshed it late afternoon my time, eg. 6.00am UTC.
Once I got a nice looking display, I might not refresh it again for a week or more since I was more interested in the links and just wanted the graph to look OK and not have all the history squashed down because of the height of a phantom spike.
Since this spike discussion arose, I've been refreshing the page more than usual (still not very often) trying to get a spike to reappear - so far without success. I feel that something has been 'fixed', even if inadvertently :-). Whilst the graph itself is a bit useless, it was even more so with that giant spike so I'm much less visually offended every time I visit that tab to click a link :-).
So now I get visually offended by other details :-), such as the lack of vertical bars (ticks) to properly delineate the 10 day intervals in the past history. At first glance from where 'today' sits, it looks like a couple of days of 'the future' is being predicted :-). That's because, without ticks, my eye wants to put day 0 in a certain place after scanning the intervals from -50 to -40 to -30 .... That certain place looks to be about the middle of the word 'today' rather than the end of the graph. If I force myself to use the RH margin as '0', the 0 to -10 interval just looks too big. It would look a lot better with properly placed tick marks :-).
The other 'offending' omission is the complete lack of a vertical scale. I vaguely remember that much of this sort of stuff was discussed right back at the time the new website was introduced. I'm not reopening that discussion. None of these comments are intended as complaints or as calls to spend time and effort in changing things. I'm just commenting on how that graphical display looks to me. I'm just happy the spike seems to be gone :-).
For me the spike is back this morning.I think this makes it unlikely that there was a durable fix somewhere, and more likely that there was something odd about yesterday.
Here is a screen capture of the graph on my account as of a few minutes ago, just to illustrate. As this is a capture, not a link, it won't update.
My spike is gone from 2 days ago. I didn't look here yesterday but its there at the last point in the graph for me too. I usually don't pay attention to that graph as there are no numbers and sometimes doesn't update.
such as the lack of vertical bars (ticks) to properly delineate the 10 day intervals in the past history. At first glance from where 'today' sits, it looks like a couple of days of 'the future' is being predicted :-). That's because, without ticks, my eye wants to put day 0 in a certain place after scanning the intervals from -50 to -40 to -30 .... That certain place looks to be about the middle of the word 'today' rather than the end of the graph.
There are vertical ticks, each ten days. The ticks are to the right of their labels (because 0/today marks the end on the far right). Are they too faint for you? Have a look at the screenshot following your post.
Gary Roberts wrote:
The other 'offending' omission is the complete lack of a vertical scale.
The graph shows the intra-day diffs in absolute credit. So the scale is about your recent average credit.
.... Are they too faint for you? Have a look at the screenshot following your post.
Obviously they are :-). My sincere apologies. I go through that dashboard page regularly to other places (always on an iMac screen) and I've never seen the vertical lines before. I saw them immediately on archae86's screen capture and wondered why I couldn't see them normally on my display. They were that obvious in the capture. I went to the firefox tab where my account page/dashboard is permanently open and if I peer carefully enough then, yes, there they are, but quite a bit fainter than how they appear on the screen capture. Each time I go to the dashboard, they really are virtually invisible on my screen and to my eyes. At the top of the page there are nice thin, subdued vertical separators between the various sub-menu items. Now if the graph had those .... :-).
I'm very sorry for the erroneous feedback but I'm happy that the spike might now get permanently fixed. I'm also happy that the lines are there even if I don't immediately see them :-). They seem to be a bit more visible each time I stare intently at the screen ;-).
Checking today and the graph
Checking today and the graph looks fine and so does the one I posted earlier.
So it seems to have fixed itself...
I'll post again if it stops updating.
My graph is also missing the
My graph is also missing the most recent day spike this morning. But this is a page I look at daily (not to see the graph, but as a path to the task lists to check for error or invalid tasks), and this is the first time in many weeks without the spike. Unless something has been changed, I predict it will return.
archae86 wrote:My graph is
I too can confirm that this 'spike' was there regularly (but not always) in the past.
I have the account -> dashboard page permanently open in a tab in firefox because of the various links to other stuff (prefs, server status, apps, full hosts list, message inbox, etc) that reside there. The spike was visually annoying and by trial and error I noticed that it seemed to appear if I refreshed the page before midnight UTC (morning my time) but it would quite often NOT appear and give a much better looking graph, if I refreshed it late afternoon my time, eg. 6.00am UTC.
Once I got a nice looking display, I might not refresh it again for a week or more since I was more interested in the links and just wanted the graph to look OK and not have all the history squashed down because of the height of a phantom spike.
Since this spike discussion arose, I've been refreshing the page more than usual (still not very often) trying to get a spike to reappear - so far without success. I feel that something has been 'fixed', even if inadvertently :-). Whilst the graph itself is a bit useless, it was even more so with that giant spike so I'm much less visually offended every time I visit that tab to click a link :-).
So now I get visually offended by other details :-), such as the lack of vertical bars (ticks) to properly delineate the 10 day intervals in the past history. At first glance from where 'today' sits, it looks like a couple of days of 'the future' is being predicted :-). That's because, without ticks, my eye wants to put day 0 in a certain place after scanning the intervals from -50 to -40 to -30 .... That certain place looks to be about the middle of the word 'today' rather than the end of the graph. If I force myself to use the RH margin as '0', the 0 to -10 interval just looks too big. It would look a lot better with properly placed tick marks :-).
The other 'offending' omission is the complete lack of a vertical scale. I vaguely remember that much of this sort of stuff was discussed right back at the time the new website was introduced. I'm not reopening that discussion. None of these comments are intended as complaints or as calls to spend time and effort in changing things. I'm just commenting on how that graphical display looks to me. I'm just happy the spike seems to be gone :-).
Cheers,
Gary.
For me the spike is back this
For me the spike is back this morning.I think this makes it unlikely that there was a durable fix somewhere, and more likely that there was something odd about yesterday.
Here is a screen capture of the graph on my account as of a few minutes ago, just to illustrate. As this is a capture, not a link, it won't update.
My spike is gone from 2 days
My spike is gone from 2 days ago. I didn't look here yesterday but its there at the last point in the graph for me too. I usually don't pay attention to that graph as there are no numbers and sometimes doesn't update.
Confirmed. We'll look into
Confirmed. We'll look into this. Could be a GridRepublic (stats source) issue, could be us.
Oliver
Einstein@Home Project
Updates: the spike is already
Updates: the spike is already in the source data. Forwarding issue...
Einstein@Home Project
Gary Roberts wrote: such as
There are vertical ticks, each ten days. The ticks are to the right of their labels (because 0/today marks the end on the far right). Are they too faint for you? Have a look at the screenshot following your post.
The graph shows the intra-day diffs in absolute credit. So the scale is about your recent average credit.
HTH,
Oliver
Einstein@Home Project
oliver.bock@aei.mpg.de
Obviously they are :-). My sincere apologies. I go through that dashboard page regularly to other places (always on an iMac screen) and I've never seen the vertical lines before. I saw them immediately on archae86's screen capture and wondered why I couldn't see them normally on my display. They were that obvious in the capture. I went to the firefox tab where my account page/dashboard is permanently open and if I peer carefully enough then, yes, there they are, but quite a bit fainter than how they appear on the screen capture. Each time I go to the dashboard, they really are virtually invisible on my screen and to my eyes. At the top of the page there are nice thin, subdued vertical separators between the various sub-menu items. Now if the graph had those .... :-).
I'm very sorry for the erroneous feedback but I'm happy that the spike might now get permanently fixed. I'm also happy that the lines are there even if I don't immediately see them :-). They seem to be a bit more visible each time I stare intently at the screen ;-).
Cheers,
Gary.
The front page graphics
The front page graphics showing Einstein@Home progress has been stuck for several days and showing a huge spike on the right edge of the graphics.