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Hello Fabrizio

I will start testing xrootd and xrdcp again (I was gone for a couple of 
weeks). 
I will do some larger test with xrdcp as I would like to try using 
it for the Babar data distribution.

Cheers,
    Wilko





On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Fabrizio Furano wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> it looks like I finished this small dev/bugfix round on XrdClient. Very few 
> added features:
> - function to clean the cache forcefully
> - windowsize agreement between client and server in multistream mode (i.e. 
> you only need to set your preferred WAN tcp windowsize on the server side)
> - TestXrdClient_read now has the --check option which does a basic 
> correctness check on the data it receives.
>
> For the bugfix part, the most important ones are:
> - correct interpretation of error messages coming out as unsolicited 
> responses to staging requests (needs validation from Andreas)
> - correct behavior of the cache with 'nasty' chunk requests
> - correct optimization of concurrent connection creations
> - mem corruption in creating connections in the connection manager
> - mem corruption in purging unused connections in the error recovery 
> mechanism in the multistream case
>
> Right now I am finishing the tests, but everything looks fine up to now. I'd 
> like to hear from you if you have problems with the latest version.
>
> BTW xrdcp with the latest code is scoring 6.1MB/s between PD and SLAC, 
> against the previous 4.5-5MB/s. It would be nice to hear from you if you 
> confirm this improvement or if it's just in my setup for some strange reason.
>
> Fabrizio
>