[Swift-devel] problem at end of workflow

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Apr 24 14:38:11 CDT 2009


On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 14:14 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> 
> On 4/24/09 1:46 PM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 13:29 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> >> Any pointers that might enable Zhao to reproduce these things in testing?
> > 
> > Yeah. Use Glen's proxy.
> 
> OK. Glen, when you get a chance, can you post how Zhao might test with a 
> proxy similar to yours?

If I knew the similarity that triggers the problem, there would probably
be a solution already.

I'm not 100% sure it's the proxy, but given what I know so far, I
suspect it is.

>  Or even run the tests with you, under yours?
> 
> Im not following this thread close enough to know how the proxy figures 
> into the problem, but sounds like it does.
> 
> My goal is that testing beat up the system and find bugs before users, 
> so if there indeed strange aspects of various proxies (or user 
> environments) we should try to understand that.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Mike
> 
> >> On 4/24/09 1:09 PM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 01:17 -0500, Glen Hocky wrote:
> >>>> I upgraded to newest cog and swift (Swift svn swift-r2880 cog-r2391)
> >>>> I got new behavior this time. instead of just 16 jobs to the queue, i 
> >>>> got up to 50 before I killed. So that's probably a good thing.
> >>>>
> >>>> The bad thing is that a job became active before any of the jobs in the 
> >>>> queue started and i started getting error messages (error transfer log 
> >>>> messages)
> >>> How much time before?
> >>>
> >>>> Everything is in
> >>>> /home/hockyg/oops/swift/output/rangeroutdir.3000
> >>>>
> >>>> and as promised, new ranger coaster logs in
> >>>>> /home/hockyg/oops/swift/coaster_logs/ranger/coasters
> >>>> sorry i don't have more time to stress test this tonight
> >>> You seem to be hitting an old problem that is messy to reproduce because
> >>> (I think) it involves certain proxies or credentials. I've put some code
> >>> in (cog r2392) to alleviate some of the symptoms.
> >>>
> >>>
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