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ok, Pete. Honestly Windows is a world to test yet...
is >~140 kB a large attach ? ok I wont do this kind attachment in future.
   
    Alvise

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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