2024-10-03 Meeting Notes

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

(Gateway Auth failures)

@Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC)

Saturation on the external gateways on Friday 27/09

all common gateways on 5.7.1

'23 gws network issue might have been due to network advertisement priority to CERN - legacy network was higher in priority

cms-aaa naming convention

cms-aaa is the only remaining personality to use proxy/ceph as the xrootd service names

cms proxy cfg ->unified.cfg

ceph-> tcp.cfg

a separate naming convention would be more appropriate - main/supporting?

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

@Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC)

All (external gateways) upgraded to 5.7.1

batch still on 5.5.4; to upgrade to 5.7.1 (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

@Alastair Dewhurst

@Katy Ellis

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

discussed at the storage meeting

Xrootd 6 is coming

xrdceph is getting merged back into core xrootd - planned for Xrootd 6

HTCondor

Pelican - 'Wizard' like webUI for configuration

Tokens - non WLCG tokens use different token profiles/protocols

Shoveler

@Katy Ellis

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

@Ian Johnson

Deletions

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

RAL deletions are within allowed times for ATLAS tests currently

WN changes

@Alexander Rogovskiy

https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/2308 now in 5.7.1 (and patched 5.7.0).
To be deployed over first 2 weeks of October

periodic hackaton?

group coding/testing for specific tasks

Xrootd testing framework

XRootD Site 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
CDASH sends the test to the xrootd cdash server https://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=XRootD
run as non root

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

XrootD gateway specs

100Gb NICs
current usage
25Gb NIC
memory use of xrootd process ~25-35GB
context switch ~800kHz
CPU load ~10-20

Adding NICs to current gateways?
Tom B - bonded NICs were hard to set up and operate,
especially at scale

keeping networking simple preferred

on adding 100G NICs to current gws - switches might get overloaded

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)

Notes from planning meeting 22-04-2024

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

accounting - it’s in the pipeline but not coming soon on APEL

Checksums improvements

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

There is a github issue open to merge this upstream https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/2338

streaming checksums