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I was wondering can you ask if ricardo is using voms-proxy-init -voms lhcb:Role=Admin or something like that? It is possible that he is starting jobs with different roles proxies this is might be he is mapped differently on different systems. cheers alessandra Alessandra Forti wrote: > It is extracted from voms. > > Gordon, JC (John) wrote: >> Nick and Philippe of LHCb tell me Ricardo is in the lhcb sgm group in >> VOMS but he should currently be running tests, not production. It sounds >> like the gmf generation is not consistent across sites. >> I have asked Ricardo what he thinks should be happening. Then I'll raise >> a ticket (or ask Olivier to do so). >> >> Does anyone know how the sgm in the gmf should be defined today? Is it >> extracted from VOMS? Or defined in YAIM? >> >> John >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes >>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Olivier van der Aa >>> Sent: 23 May 2006 17:35 >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> Subject: Re: shared experiment area load >>> >>> Gordon, JC (John) wrote: >>>> Olivier, I am sitting next to Nick Brook and he says that lhcb >>>> production jobs should not run as sgm. Is this happening at >>> other sites? >>> When checking the gridmapfile I can find only 3 sgm users. >>> Alex could you tell us when you saw a lot of lhcb sgm jobs ? When I >>> look now i only see normal lhcb >>> >>> >>> Olivier. >>>> Can you tell me the DN of the user being mapped to sgm, if >>> that doesn't >>>> break your data security policy:-) Nick thinks the gridmapfile >>>> generation may not be correct. >>>> John >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes >>>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Olivier van der Aa >>>>> Sent: 23 May 2006 15:49 >>>>> To: [log in to unmask] >>>>> Subject: shared experiment area load >>>>> >>>>> Dear All, >>>>> >>>>> At QMUL we have a load problem with the experimental shared area. >>>>> The farm is running around 900 jobs and the nfs server serving the >>>>> experimental area is overloaded. >>>>> >>>>> The result of that is that lhcb jobs sits for a long time >>> on the wn >>>>> waiting for data (mainly libraries). >>>>> >>>>> We would like to know how this is solved at ral, >>> manchester where the >>>>> size is similar. We where thinking of setting up a set of pbs slots >>>>> for the sgm to have rw access. The other nodes would just have a >>>>> copy on the local disk or access through several nfs servers. >>>>> >>>>> I think the problem with the small set of wn having rw >>> access is that >>>>> lhcb is sending a lot of jobs via one user who is sgm. >>> Most of those >>>>> jobs do not write to the experimental software area but they would >>>>> stack to wait for the wn to be freed. >>>>> >>>>> We are keen to have your experience on that topic. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, Olivier. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> - O. van der Aa - Imperial College London - >>>>> - LT2 Technical Coordinator - >>>>> - tel: +442075947810, +442071005426 - >>>>> - SIP: [log in to unmask] - >>>>> - fax: +442078238830 - >>>>> - http://surl.se/agtu - >>>>> >>> >>> -- >>> - O. van der Aa - Imperial College London - >>> - LT2 Technical Coordinator - >>> - tel: +442075947810, +442071005426 - >>> - SIP: [log in to unmask] - >>> - fax: +442078238830 - >>> - http://surl.se/agtu - >>> > -- ******************************************* * Dr Alessandra Forti * * Technical Coordinator - NorthGrid Tier2 * * http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/aforti * *******************************************