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XROOTD-L July 2021

Subject:

Re: pgread stats not recorded in f-stream monitoring XFR/close messages

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Thomas Byrne - STFC UKRI <[log in to unmask]>

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Support use of xrootd by HEP experiments <[log in to unmask]>

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Thu, 1 Jul 2021 09:44:11 +0000

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Hi Andy,

Thanks for the response, I appreciate that there is no ideal solution, but adding it to the read totals seems reasonable to me.
 
Cheers,
Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Hanushevsky <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: 30 June 2021 23:19
> To: Byrne, Thomas (STFC,RAL,SC) <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: pgread stats not recorded in f-stream monitoring XFR/close
> messages
> 
> Hi Tom and Rob,
> 
> Yes, this is a known problem. The reason that it occurs is because we could not
> agree on a backwardly compatible way to report that number. I suppose we can
> simply add it to the regular read number but that would upset another set of
> people. There is no good solution (i.e. one that doesn't elicit complaints). I just
> bite the bullet and add it to the total.
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2021, Thomas Byrne - STFC UKRI wrote:
> 
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > Ah, sorry to hear you?ve run into this too. I confirmed it was the read/pgread
> difference by comparing the f-stream info with the server log output with the
> ?xrootd.trace fs? directive set. I could see the pgreads and reads hitting the
> server, and then compared that against the f-stream close info.
> >
> > I?ve recently created a ?somewhat rough round the edges? python program to
> act as an f-stream collector at RAL, loosely based on an older t-stream collector
> someone else wrote here. It runs a udp server, and parses messages when they
> come in, and fires them off to elasticsearch in bulk. I struggled a lot with
> consolidation of the various messages (user conn, file open, file close) to form a
> meaningful ?file access event? without a) using excessive amount of memory at
> scale and b) being unable to restart the collector without ending up with
> ?incomplete? events for some time after. I ended up writing functionality for the
> collector to query elasticsearch for the previous user connection and file open
> messages if they aren?t in its memory cache, which is surprisingly performant,
> and the collector has been working well for us.
> >
> > I?m aiming to get it up on our github in the next few weeks (I need to have a
> serious tidy first to make it generally usable), but if you wanted to look at it for
> inspiration I?d be happy to send it to you in the meantime, the f-stream parsing
> stuff is all fairly solid, and might be useful for you to confirm things work how you
> expected.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tom
> >
> > From: Robert Currie <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: 30 June 2021 16:44
> > To: Byrne, Thomas (STFC,RAL,SC) <[log in to unmask]>
> > Cc: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: pgread stats not recorded in f-stream monitoring XFR/close
> messages
> >
> >
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > I think I've been seeing similar issues in Edinburgh with our (disk) XCache
> (XRootD-5.2).
> > This might explain why I've been struggling to understand some of the fstream
> data we've been ingesting from the XCache's themselves.
> >
> > If I can ask, what collector are you using for ingesting the XRootD metrics?, it
> sounds like you're doing a similar thing to the ALICE monitoring.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > On 2021-06-30 16:20, Thomas Byrne - STFC UKRI wrote:
> > This email was sent to you by someone outside the University.
> > You should only click on links or attachments if you are certain that the email is
> genuine and the content is safe.
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > After upgrading our external (memory caching) proxies to XRootD 5, we was
> spotted that some of our internal monitoring is showing less data transferred
> than expected in some cases. Our monitoring uses the f-stream, and is mostly
> just consuming the f-stream close messages XFR and OPS sections, along with
> other messages needed to make sense of them (user connections, fstream
> opens).
> >
> >
> >
> > I tracked it down to our XRootD 5 gateways serving some reads as pgreads
> (specifically, reads from offsite XCaches). I don?t fully understand what pgreads
> are[1], but I think the change in reporting comes from the fact that previously,
> our XRootD 4 gateways did not support pgreads, so the pgreads fell back to
> reads, which then contributed to the XFR ?read? total in the close message. Now
> the gateways are serving pgreads, and I can?t work out how to get the pgread
> summary stats. As far as I can tell, pgread operations don?t contribute to any
> XFR or OPS counters in the f-stream close messages.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there a setting I?m missing when specifying the monitoring directive[2], or
> have I missed a f-stream datagram format change that adds pgread stats? Or
> alternatively, have I completely misunderstood what is going on here?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> >
> > [1] I think they are some sort of paged read that can make use of consistency
> checking ?per page? if the server supports it, but I may be completely off the
> mark here?
> >
> >
> >
> > [2] We currently use these monitoring directives:
> >
> > xrootd.monitor all auth fstat 10s ops lfn xfr 5 ident 5m dest fstat info user redir
> HOST:PORT
> >
> >
> >
> >
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