Hi Fokke,
you can use the lcg-cp tool instead, which is part of the LCG-2 release.
It is one of a set of tools which rewrite the edg-rm functions
required by LCG in C for efficiency. They take the same arguments as the
edg-rm tools, and occasionally add some more.
cheers,
James.
Fokke Dijkstra wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We had a user here who wanted to use the replica location services for a
> large number of relatively small (4 MB) files. What he found is that the
> edg-rm copyFile command took more than 3 seconds for each file making
> this the bottleneck in his analysis.
>
> After some tests I found that most of this time is probably caused by
> starting up java for the edg-rm command. Simply quering the replica
> metadata catalog to obtain a guid for a lfn only took about 0.01 second
> when directly calling the web interface using wget.
>
> Does anyone know if there are other implementations of edg-rm available
> in e.g. C++? I know there used to be one, but that one is using and old
> interface.
>
> Regards,
>
> Fokke Dijkstra
>
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