There is a bug in xrd when listing directories in that it tries to login twice and imposes a delay in between. But this is just a couple of seconds and wouldn’t explain a big delay at all. What is the server doing doing this “delay”? Andy From: Andreas-Joachim Peters Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 12:58 PM To: Wei Yang Cc: Matevz Tadel ; xrootd-dev Subject: Re: xrd dirlist I see a similiar issue with 'xrd' being extremly slow and 'xrdfs' fast: [root@eosdevsrv1 ~]# time xrdfs eospps.cern.ch ls -l /eos/ => lists 22 entries real 0m0.142s user 0m0.120s sys 0m0.014s [root@eosdevsrv1 ~]# time xrd eospps.cern.ch ls /eos/ => lists 22 entries real 0m4.193s user 0m0.131s sys 0m0.011s Same happens with a native xrootd listing /tmp/ on a close remote machine => 4s ... Cheers Andreas. On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Wei Yang <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Hi Matevz, I have client and server from 3.3.3 and this works. regards, Wei Yang | [log in to unmask] | 1-650-926-3338 On Oct 3, 2013, at 9:09 AM, Matevz Tadel <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi, > > After a long while I tried doing dirlist on one of our servers and it didn't > work ... then I tried manywhere else (UCSD (hdfs and local), UNL, FNAL, EOS) and > it always came back empty handed (sometimes after a long while, more than a > minute++, enough to go do something else). I guess most of the US installations > were 3.3.1 (I think eos was 3.2.2 or maybe that was just the client on lxplus > that i was using). > > Can somebody please check and confirm this is working :) > > Cheers, > Matevz > > > matevz@uaf-9 ~> xrd nfs-5 > (C) 2004-2010 by the Xrootd group. Xrootd version: v3.3.1 > Welcome to the xrootd command line interface. > Type 'help' for a list of available commands. > root://nfs-5.t2.ucsd.edu:1094//> dirlist /tas-5/matevz > > root://nfs-5:1094//> > > ######################################################################## > Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list > > To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: > https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1