2024-9-5 Meeting Notes

 Date

Sep 5, 2024

 Participants

 

  • @James Walder

  • @Alastair Dewhurst

  • @Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC)

  • @Alexander Rogovskiy

  • @Mariam Demir

  • @Ian Johnson

  • Lancs: Matt, Steven,

  • Glasgow: Sam

Apologies:

  • Gerard, Tom, Rob A

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CC:

 

 

 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

 

Item

Presenter

Notes

 

Operational Issues
Gateways and WNs:
- Current status and upcoming changes

(Gateway Auth failures)

@Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC)

 

Relatively quite (CMS running >30k core), some network saturation (OPN).

 

 

Compilation and rollout status with XrdCeph and rocky 8: 5.7.x

@Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC)

All (external gateways) on 5.7.0 now.

batch still on 5.5.4; to upgrade to 5.7.0 (with proxy cache patch) with Tom Birkett time.

5.7.1 will have FD and memory fixes.

 

XrootD Workshop plan

@Alastair Dewhurst

@Katy Ellis

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1386888/overview

One month to go!

  • Xrootd mgt lunch (weds)

  • @Alastair Dewhurst sorting logistics with Cosners, remaining registrations, GridPP / UK → @Alastair Dewhurst to send email re. CVent (missing details).

  • @Alastair Dewhurst Taxi arrangements

  • Andy on Sunday wants to discuss last minute planning.

  • Workshop helpers on the day.

    • FTS (RC / TN) session chairing

 

Shoveler

@Katy Ellis

 

Deletion studies through RDR

@Ian Johnson

 

 

 

Deletions

https://stfc.atlassian.net/browse/XRD-83

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:

 

image-20240905-121934.png

 

 

Prefetch studies and WN changes

@Alexander Rogovskiy

https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/2308 now in 5.7.1 (and patched 5.7.0).

 

Xrootd testing framework

@Mariam Demir

 

https://github.com/stfc/xrootd-testing-framework/pulls

 

SKA Gateway box

@James Walder

https://stfc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UK/pages/215941180

 

 

Future developments ideas planning work

@Ian Johnson @Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC)

 

Tokens Status

 

To split this into Operational aspects and any development / long-term planning aspects.

 

Checksums fixes

@Alexander Rogovskiy @Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC)

 

 

 

 

 

on GGUS:

Site reports

Lancaster: Updated to xrootd 5.7.1. Nothing melted. Steven notes our file handle usage since the update yesterday:

 

image-20240905-121619.png
Updated to 5.7.1 on lunchtime on the 4th.

 

Glasgow:

 Action items

 

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 Decisions