[Swift-devel] Re: Worker connection

[Allan Espinosa]

So this is simply passed to the worker?  The "url" parameter is still the one
used to spawn the service right?

-Allan
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:35:59AM -0500, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 11:30 -0500, Jonathan Monette wrote:
> > Hello,
> >      How does the worker decide what connection to connect to?  Right 
> > now what I think it does is it runs ifconfig and greps the inet address 
> > and then test each of these connections.  Is this correct?  When I am 
> > running on PADS it seems that the worker always chooses the wrong 
> > connection to the service.  It seems to choose the UBS0 connection where 
> > the correct connection is the ib0 connection.  Is there a way that maybe 
> > the worker can be fixed to choose a better connection or the correct 
> > connection?  This seems to be only happening on PADS.
> > 
> 
> That was temporary. Initially it would use the same address as the url
> in sites.xml. Then I added the "try all interfaces" thing, but in some
> cases the connect on certain wrong addresses does not fail quickly
> enough and has to timeout instead, which usually takes a few minutes. So
> that got disabled and only the frist address is used now (unless
> overridden - see below).
> 
> You can say <profile namespace="globus"
> key="internalHostname">x.y.z.w</profile> in sites.xml
>