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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