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Hi Gregory,

Please start the olbd's with -d so that we can see what they are up to
when this occurs; thanks. Based on what you said, it does look like a
timing issue in the olbd.

Andy

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Gregory J. Sharp wrote:

>
> On Dec 17, 2004, at 7:11 AM, Fabrizio Furano wrote:
> >
> >  rereading this message, I realized that this scenario is very similar
> > to the tricky one that Andy and I debugged and fixed together last
> > week. So, it might be useful for us to know:
> > - which client/server verison you are using (or the head of which day
> > if you are used to take the cvs head)
>
> I am using the release 20041214. I don't know the internal details of
> your CVS repository.
>
> > - what the client side is doing (xrdcp or some other prog?) In
> > particular which flags/options you specified in the Open request.
>
> The client side is a Suez program using the XrdClient interface. From
> what I can understand of Chris's code he just calls
> m_client->Open(O_RDONLY,0);. Thereafter the code does some Read() calls
> and a Close().
>
> Additional Information:
>
> 1. This bug may not show up for several hours after starting xrootd,
> but sometimes within minutes.
> 2. After adding XrdClient debug level 1 on the client side, I can't
> reproduce the bug after 4 hours of trying. This suggests it may be
> timing-related.
> 3. I think the real problem must be in the xrootd server or olbd
> server, because once it gets into this mode, it stays in this mode
> until the server is restarted. Restarting the client doesn't fix it.
> That means that even if invalid behavior in the client triggers this
> behavior, the server is not rejecting the invalid behavior.
>
> I will keep trying to reproduce this with debug enabled.
>
> Should I move to the latest version that Peter released yesterday and
> see if it is fixed there?
>
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