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  Hi Alvise,

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:16:28PM +0100, Alvise Dorigo wrote:
> ok, Pete. Honestly Windows is a world to test yet...

  No problem. At least there is something to play with. (I added Tony as
I know he was looking at xrootd access for JAS.)

> is >~140 kB a large attach ? ok I wont do this kind attachment in future.

  Large is all relative, but in this case the limit was set low enough to
discourage non-trivial attachments altogether. You know how much I like
them.... ;-)

                                   Pete


> Peter Elmer wrote:
> 
> > Hi Alvise,
> >
> >On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:14:07AM +0100, Alvise Dorigo wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>I recently fixed a number of bugs. Please use the new jar in attach 
> >>instead of that one I sent to you some day ago. Now in the source and 
> >>destination argument of XrdFileCopy you can omit the TCP_PORT number (it 
> >>will try to get it from /etc/services under linux and from 
> >>c:\\winnt\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\services under WinNT/XP, otherwise 
> >>default=1094); in addition a 3rd parameter cab be passed to specify the 
> >>size of copy chunk (larger chunk means more copy speed, default chunk 
> >>size is 256 kB) so:
> >>
> >>java- jar XrdCopyFile.jar xroot://<USER>@<HOST>/SRC_PATHFILE 
> >>xroot://<USER>@<HOST>/TARGET_PATHFILE [CHUNK_SIZE_IN_KB]
> >>
> >>Note 1: The ASYNC communication has been deeply tested with 10 
> >>concurrent clients repeatedly reading from the same file and from the 
> >>same server (this to put all clients on the same physical channel). No 
> >>server-crash during reading has been triggered yet, but it will be done 
> >>asap. The server-crash tolerance has been fully tested with 1 and more 
> >>client in SYNC mode.
> >>
> >>Note 2: Some data corruption takes place when "oksofar" is handled, that 
> >>means that copying files using chunks > 2MB can create data corruption. 
> >>I'll investigate.
> >>
> >>Note 3: The Java client is supposed to run under WindowNT/XP too (please 
> >>remember JDK1.5) but very few tests has been done: even if Java is fully 
> >>multiplatform everybody knows that small differences are between 
> >>platforms, versions and vedors... I developed and tested under Fedora 
> >>Core 3 Linux (kernel 2.6.9-1.667) Sun JDK 1.5.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> > Ok, thanks: I've updated the jar file linked from the xrootd page. Very
> >nice that we have a windows client now, too....
> >
> > BTW, you can't send mails with large attachments to the mailing list. It
> >will bounce them. (And in general sending large attachments to mailing list
> >is bad practice.) You can probably just stick any future update files 
> >someplace at SLAC and send me the location so I can put it in the xrootd
> >web area...
> >
> >                                  Pete
> >
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