2024-01-04 Meeting Notes
Date
Jan 4, 2024
Participants
@Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC)
@Katy Ellis
@Thomas Byrne
Lancs:
Glasgow:
Apologies:
CC:
@Alastair Dewhurst
Goals
List of Epics
New tickets
Consider new functionality / items
Detailed discussion of important topics
Site report activity
Discussion topics
Current status of Echo Gateways / WNs testing
Recent sandbox’s for review / deployments:
Item | Presenter | Notes |
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Operational Issues over the Holiday period | @Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC) |
brief VOMS authentication failure on svc02 - caused a spike in failures |
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Gateways and WNs: | @Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC) | stable status currently
To resist installing 5.6.4; before the break, one sets of sets (TPC transfers) was failing against another site. To repeat the tests and see |
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bugfix for calculating striper objects in direct reads |
| Any further comments on the PR; or ready to merge ?
@Katy Ellis to confirm a successful file dump read.
JW to approve the merge |
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ECHO File transfer / throughput studies | @Katy Ellis | Tests of per-file transfer writes into Echo. Report of initial set of tests presented of writes from a few sites to RAL, using different file sizes, and network links.
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Checksums fixes | @Alexander Rogovskiy | Status and plans for improving Checksumming work … GitHub - alex-rg/xrd_ckslib https://stfc.atlassian.net/browse/XRD-56
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Prefetch studies and WN changes | @Alexander Rogovskiy | Status and plans for Prefect study testing …
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Deletion studies through RDR | @Ian Johnson |
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Tokens testing | @Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC) @Katy Ellis | https://stfc.atlassian.net/browse/XRD-63 avoid duplicating basepath by Jo-stfc · Pull Request #2151 · xrootd/xrootd |
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Understanding CMSD Loadbalancing | @Thomas Byrne |
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SKA Gateway box | @James Walder |
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Architectural review ‘hackathon’ | All | Plan the process for the Architectural planning of XRootD across the External Gateways and WNs |
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2024 Planning |
| JW to prepare a summary of the plans for 2024 |
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on GGUS:
Site reports
Lancaster -
Glasgow -
Action items
@James Walder to schedule a ‘hackathon’ within a F2F to have a session on architectural planning.
@Katy Ellis to run (and help coordinate) additional tests on File transfer performance, to understand the differences between SVC/new network and GW / legacy network hosts that suggest different levels of performance.
These tests to involve iperf testing, and concurrent FTS-issued file transfer testing.
@James Walder to prepare an outline of the expected roadmap for XRootD developments in 2024.
Decisions
- @Alexander Rogovskiy to work on and help coordinate the development of a checksum library to perform metadata requests, calling the external checksum script, if a checksum is needed. This is agreed to be a stepping stone to a full implementation whereby the checksum itself may be caclulated by the checksum library.