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Transfer Tests

2006-01-18

Tests indicated a ~100Mb/s write speed to Durham's DPM from Glasgow. Decided to scale back test to 500GB to avoid transferring during the day.

Initiated transfer (5 files, 5 streams) at ~9.30pm. Glasgow lost networking (power cut) at 10pm, currting the transfer. When Glasgow came back up next morning the transfer kicked in again and completed.

File:Gla2dur interrupt.gif

Rate was 88Mb/s (measured from Ganglia). Mark assures me the SE is connected to a Gb link, so we need to investigate why there's a bottleneck. Should use iperf to do some Network Testing.

2006-03-20

Resolved a long standing problem with Durham's DPM enabling the transfer test to take place. Mark had a broken UI, so Graeme triggered the test.

Started a 1000x1GB transfer from RAL to Durham at ~2200. Transfer went well until about 2400, then died horribly, with FTS reporting:

 Failed on SRM put: Failed SRM put call. Error is Permission denied

Subsequent investigations show the Durham DPM is giving permission denied errors on all attempts to transfer into the /dpm space.

On the bright side, the transfer rate was ok while it lasted:

 Transfer Bandwidth Report:
 194/1000 transferred in 8009.78204894 seconds
 194000000000.0 bytes transferred.
 Bandwidth: 193.763075015Mb/s

After some investgations the DPM problem was revealed to be an issue with a directory on the underlying filesystem having the wrong ownership (root:root).

2006-06-02

Tests the previous month revealed a severe outbound rate limitation (<10Mb/s). This was tracked to an anachronistic rate limitation imposed by NORMAN on Durham. This has been limted to Durham's nominal fraction of the MAN (200Mb/s).

Avoiding a major daytime test, 100GB was transfered to Glasgow:

Transfer Bandwidth Report:
  100/100 transferred in 4526.39037299 seconds
  100000000000.0 bytes transferred.
Bandwidth: 176.741273747Mb/s

File:Durham2gla-2006-06-02.gif

An approach will now be made to NORMAN to lift the 200Mb/s limit to allow the grid to use spare bandwidth on the MAN (it would be fine for this to be at a lower priority than other users' traffic).