I presume he said hardware because he wants to offer a service to
users. The fact that users may not have a good experience even if that
hardware is excellent is surely relevant to this discussion.
Graeme
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Gordon, JC (John)
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Come on Graeme, he said 'hardware'. You yourself reported earlier today
> from the GDB that WMS problems did not appear to be hardware-related.
>
> John
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Graeme Stewart
>> Sent: 13 February 2009 14:01
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Specs for latest WMS & LB
>>
>> Maybe Catalin is happy, but the users are not...
>>
>> We spent sometime debugging stalled jobs from a Lancaster user this
>> week, which had been fed through the RAL WMSs.
>>
>> Steve's tests have another nice red stripe down them today:
>>
>> http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~lloyd/gridpp/atest.html
>>
>> "Test Job Result for MyAnalPackage at 13 Feb 2009 09:32:47
>> Status Failed
>> Reason Job submission timed out
>> CE Node gridgate.cs.tcd.ie
>> Total time -1
>> Result
>> Submit Time -1
>> Status Time -1
>> Output Time -1
>>
>> Submission Output:
>>
>> glite-wms-job-submit -a --config lcgwms01.gridpp.rl.ac.uk.conf
>> temp_UKI-IRELAND-TRINITY_MyAnalPackage.jdl"
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Graeme
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Bly, MJ (Martin)
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > Catalin reports he is happy with our WMS/LB hardware...
>> >
>> > Martin.
>> > --
>> > Martin Bly
>> > RAL Tier1 Fabric Team
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
>> >> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bly, MJ (Martin)
>> >> Sent: 13 February 2009 13:25
>> >> To: [log in to unmask]
>> >> Subject: Re: Specs for latest WMS & LB
>> >>
>> >> FYI, our three WMS and two LBs are running on the following:
>> >>
>> >> Dual chip quad-core xeon E5410 (2.33GHz)
>> >> 16GB RAM
>> >> 2 x 500GB enterprise SATA in software RAID1
>> >>
>> >> I've asked Catalin whether he is happy with it but no
>> >> response yet (it's
>> >> lunch time) - but he hasn't complained since we started using that
>> >> config!
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Martin.
>> >> --
>> >> Martin Bly
>> >> RAL Tier1 Fabric Team
>> >>
>> >> > -----Original Message-----
>> >> > From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
>> >> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dr Barry MacEvoy
>> >> > Sent: 13 February 2009 11:04
>> >> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> >> > Subject: Specs for latest WMS & LB
>> >> >
>> >> > Folks,
>> >> >
>> >> > What are the recommended machine specs for the latest WMS & LB
>> >> > (i.e. the versions in certification) if you want to get the VERY
>> >> > BEST out of the middleware under heavy load?
>> >> >
>> >> > From the tests I've performed over the last 12 months, I'm
>> guessing:
>> >> >
>> >> > 8GB RAM (maybe just 4GB for the LB)
>> >> > 500Gb disk or greater
>> >> > Single Quad-core Intel Xeon ~3GHz or better
>> >> >
>> >> > Does that sound reasonable?
>> >> >
>> >> > Please let me know, as I'm intending to deploy an additional
>> >> > WMS and LB in London for very heavy use and to retire my existing
>> >> > WMS and LB to the role of backup.
>> >> >
>> >> > Cheers,
>> >> >
>> >> > Barry.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------
>> >> > Dr Barry MacEvoy
>> >> > High Energy Physics Group
>> >> > Imperial College London
>> >> > Blackett Laboratory
>> >> > Prince Consort Road
>> >> > LONDON SW7 2BW
>> >> > England
>> >> >
>> >> > T: +44 20 7594 7802
>> >> > F: +44 20 7823 8830
>> >> > M: 07767 323871
>> >> >
>> >> > http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/cms/people/based_at_imperial.html
>> >> > http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/e-science/people/macevoy.html
>> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr Graeme Stewart http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~graeme/
>> Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Scotland
>> DEATH TO MEETINGS!
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Scotland
DEATH TO MEETINGS!
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