On 07/14/2017 10:22 PM, Andrew Hanushevsky wrote: > Hi Adrian, Hi! > Yes, you if-else synopsis is correct; though it's a little had to > capture that linger is temporary (i.e. it only applies the specified > number of times). ok, understood, thanks a lot for clarification!! Adrian > > Andy > > On Fri, 14 Jul 2017, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > >> On 07/13/2017 12:27 AM, Andrew Hanushevsky wrote: >>> Hi Adrian, >> Hi! >> >>> Let's say you want to create a file and server x was selected. Then >>> you want to create another file and the cms looks and says well, all >>> things are roughly equal who should I select? If linger is set to 1 >>> then server x will be selected. If linger is zero or server x was >>> already selected twice in a row, then another server would be >>> selected. The cms.sche has no impact on this behaviour. >> i see! so, >> if cms.sched priorities are equal for all servers { >> if (linger) >> { will keep the previous use server for writing } >> else >> { choose another server } >> else >> { chose highest priority } >> >> did i understood correctly? >> >>> We put this in way back and no one uses it as far as I know because >>> it's really hard to predict the space allocation pattern and people >>> generally don't like adding extra entropy to the decision making. >> :)) yes, i can understand that :)) >> >> Thank you! >> Adrian >> >> >> >>> >>> Andy >>> >>> On Wed, 12 Jul 2017, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: >>> >>>> Hi! It is not clear to me what does cms.space linger do ... >>>> the documentation says : >>>> "The number of times a server may be reselected without an >>>> intervening server being selected for allocation. The default is >>>> zero (0)." >>>> >>>> but what is "an intervening server" ? >>>> >>>> also, how this interact with the scheduling done by cms.sched? >>>> >>>> Thank you! >>>> Adrian >>>> >>>> >>>> ######################################################################## >>>> >>>> Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-L list, click the following link: >>>> https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-L&A=1 >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------- >> Adrian Sevcenco, Ph.D. | >> Institute of Space Science - ISS, Romania | >> adrian.sevcenco at {cern.ch,spacescience.ro} | >> ---------------------------------------------- >> >> > -- ---------------------------------------------- Adrian Sevcenco, Ph.D. | Institute of Space Science - ISS, Romania | adrian.sevcenco at {cern.ch,spacescience.ro} | ---------------------------------------------- ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-L&A=1