Hi JY,
Indeed another server would have been selected if it were elegible to be
selected. So, the question is what makes the other servers inelegible? I
guess the config file will tell along with a the full path of the file
that is acusing the client to be delayed.
Andy
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Jean-Yves Nief wrote:
> hello,
>
> I have encountered a situation where on one server, the gigabit
> network interface has been saturated because a couple of files are being read
> a lot (first time I see that, usually all the servers are stressed a lot in
> that kind of cases). I switched to a setting like this for olbd:
> olb.sched io 100 maxload 80
> which is not exactly working as I was expecting (or I was dreaming :-) ):
> indeed when the load reach or is above 80, the server is not eligible anymore
> ("olb_client defered;: eligible servers overloaded for ..../foo.root").
> However, the new clients which are trying to connect on this server to open
> one of its files, are ending with an error as the server was not able to open
> the file. I would have thought that in that case, an other server would have
> been chosen and the file being staged from there if necessary.
> I could replicate the most active files on other servers but I would like to
> avoid that, as an other day it can be an other server which is the target of
> the load.
> thanks in advance for any hints,
> JY
> ps: using xrootd version 20071101-0808p1
>
