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  Hi Wilko,

  Just for the record, Fabrizio just wrote (as part of a CVS commit):

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 07:33:42PM +0000, Fabrizio Furano wrote:
> Hi again,
<...>
>  With this one I am no longer able to make xrdcp crash under heavy load
> in the client/server machine. I am still investigating on the occasional
> cpu eating, but it seems that that's more difficult, since in my tests,
> the problem disappears when enabling the client side log, and for some
> strange reason I am not able to spot it by attaching gdb to the process.
>
> Fabrizio

                                   Pete


On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:26:48AM -0800, Wilko Kroeger wrote:
> Hello Fabrizio
> 
> I run the xrdcp test again and I can reproduce crashes in xrdcp
> (some times it take 30-60 mins).
> I used the xrootd version 20050226-0825 and xrdcp is running on a RHEL3
> machine. I read the same file over and over:
>   xrdcp -DIDebugLevel 2 root://${xrdhost}:2094///prod/test/small.test - > /dev/null
> 
> The size of the small.test file is:
> > ls -l small.test
> rw-r--r--   1 wilko  ec  31457280 Feb 27 18:09 /u1/wilko/kanga/prod/test/small.test
> which is 30 MB (30*1024*1024)
> 
> I used debugLevel 1 and 2.
> 
> You can find the core file and the debug output files in:
> ~wilko/bbdev/work/xrootd/core/20050227_2233_d1/
> ~wilko/bbdev/work/xrootd/core/20050227_2302_d1/
> ~wilko/bbdev/work/xrootd/core/20050227_2314_d2/
> ~wilko/bbdev/work/xrootd/core/20050227_2350_d2/
> 
> each directory contains a core file and the debug output file
> (wk_log...). The ending d1 or d2 means debuglevel 1 or 2.
> 
> With debug option = 1, gdb shows:
> #0  0x0018b17c in memcpy () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #1  0x0806edbc in XrdClientReadCacheItem::GetPartialInterval(void const*,
>     long long, long long) (this=0x9f107d0, buffer=0xb5750d08,
>     begin_offs=31457280, end_offs=31714559) at XrdClientReadCache.hh:93
> 
> whereas with debugLevel=2, gdb shows:
> 
> #0  0x00a4e027 in _int_free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #1  0x00a4d018 in free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #2  0x0806d984 in ~XrdClientReadCacheItem (this=0x96b3db8) at
>     XrdClientReadCache.cc:40
> 
> 
> On the xrootd site I see the error:
> 050227 23:54:39 064 XrdLink: Unable to receive from wilko.30110:17@tori0001;
>        connection reset by peer
> 050227 23:54:39 064 XrootdXeq: wilko.30110:17@tori0001 disc 1:02:03 (link
>        read error)
> 
> (the corresponding client crash was around 23:50)
> 
> 
> Thanks for looking into this,
> 
> Wilko
> 



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