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Lancs: Matt, Steven, Gerard
Glasgow: Sam
Edinburgh: Rob C
Apologies:
CC:
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Operational Issues (Gateway Auth failures) | Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC) Relatively quite (CMS running >30k core), some network saturation (OPN). | Saturation on the external gateways caused by above average background load and multihop transfers to antares. To investigate VO workflow provenance. subset of gateways on 5.7.1 | |||||||||
Compilation and rollout status with XrdCeph and rocky 8: 5.7.x | All (external gateways) on 5.7.0 now, being upgraded to 5.7.1 batch still on 5.5.4; to upgrade to 5.7.0 1 (with proxy cache patch) with Tom Birkett time. 5.7.1 will have FD and memory fixes.as well as improvements for the XCache | ||||||||||
XrootD Workshop plan | https://indico.cern.ch/event/1386888/overview
discussed at the storage meeting Xrootd 6 is coming xrdceph is getting merged back into core xrootd | ||||||||||
Shoveler | Shoveler installation and monitoring all the batch farm wn connected fine shoveler is meant to run on the same host as the gw to avoid UDP packet loss | ||||||||||
Deletion studies through RDR | |||||||||||
Deletions |
Looking at scaling of deletion rates with increasing numbers of clients. Starting with RADOS Striper direct, moving on to ROOT protocol for deletion (via xrdfs) and WebDAV. Initial results: | Prefetch studies and RAL deletions are within allowed times for ATLAS tests currently | |||||||||
WN changes | https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/2308 now in 5.7.1 (and patched 5.7.0). | ||||||||||
Xrootd testing framework | testing VM to be set up and be used for preprod testing Rob C - working on kubernetes deployment component Unit tests for xrootd (added since 5.7.0) ctest -VV -C Release -DCDASH=1 -DCOVERAGE=1 -S test.cmake | ||||||||||
XrootD gateway specs | 100Gb NICs | ||||||||||
SKA Gateway box | |||||||||||
Future developments ideas planning work | |||||||||||
Tokens Status | To split this into Operational aspects and any development / long-term planning aspects. technical implementation to accept tokens is in place, issues seem to be due to VO use cases on scheduling and accounting | ||||||||||
Checksums fixes | There is a github issue open to merge this upstream https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/2338 |
on GGUS:
Site reports
Lancaster: Updated to xrootd 5.7.1. Nothing melted. Steven notes our file handle usage since the update yesterday:using less file descriptors (~2/3 as before)
Glasgow:
Ox - Stageout failures to Echo with timeouts https://bigpanda.cern.ch/job?pandaid=6338129522 with exact error
“Error description: pilot, 1151: File transfer timed out during stage-in: mc21_13p6TeV:EVNT.29070483._000105.pool.root.1 from RAL-LCG2-ECHO_DATADISK, copy command timed out: TimeoutException: Timeout reached, timeout=448 seconds')]:failed to transfer files using copytools=['rucio']”
✅ Action items
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