Douglas, What do you think about using the xrdfs utility to pre-cache chunk lookups and avoid the cold-start delay on recently restarted clusters? ref: http://linux.die.net/man/1/xrdfs #!/bin/sh for db in <db list>; do for i in <chunk list> ; do xrdfs manager:port locate /q/$db/$i & #locate in parallel done done I cobbled together something using AndyH's somewhat-supported Perl(?) utility, but it never seemed to work right. This new approach might work, no? -Daniel ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the QSERV-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=QSERV-L&A=1