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
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