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Hi Patrick,

> On an idle dataserver it will forward reporting data every 10 minutes when 
> configured with xrd.report.  Is this period fixed, or will it vary based 
> on activity in xrootd?
It shouldn't. The interval is fixed though high server activity could delay 
reporting due to thread contention.

> Should I expect any substantive differences between data reported by 
> xrd.report vs. manually polling the dataserver every 10 minutes using the 
> query command to xrd?
No, they use the same code path.

> I was experimenting with xrd and discovered one bug. The xrd command is 
> limited to retrieving 1K of data from a single query.  The output of "xrd 
> dataserver query 1 p" is over 2K when the dataserver defines 9 oss.cache 
> groups (8 space tokens + public).
Yes, I guess another reason to use "report". Plus is easier on the data 
server because it's one less login to process.

Andy