Pile of Dross

Copied nfs52_1 & 2 to nfs39_1 and nfs52_3 & nfs52_4 to 39_2, CopyManager appears to work.

JKF from Glasgow was trying transfers using FTS from Glasgow to RAL, 1GB files were not working when 100MB files were, did some poking around, discovered that a 250MB takes 17minutes to transfer to there, timeout is set at 30 minutes so 1GB has no chance of succeeding. However in opposite direction can transfer 100MB file in 20s using either FTS or srmcp

dCache srm very slow – script checking 39_2 replication appears to be hurting system, cancelled it grepped destination pools manually then diffed against the list from 39_2 and then ran the replication check on those that were in 39_2 but not on destination pools, so 60 files rather than 13000 files, all 60 files are not in dCache anymore so no problem.
Moved nfs39_1 & 2 to lhcb, moved nfs51_1-4 to read-only.
Updated job count to exclude dteam job looks liked it reduced usage by about a 1000 jobs a month.
Added display of stalled jobs to helpdesk index page.

Ops meeting
restarted pools on nfs39 and nfs42 to stop log spam
started transfers from nfs39_2 to cms_34,35,36,37
answered MH questions about info system and fts

Cleared out more of old SC3 tape tests.
Added two firewall rules to dcache.gridpp to remove possibility of userspace nfs access doing bad things

So I’ve had my iBook (14″ screen 512MB memory 60GB disk) for about 2 days now. A few thoughts:

Installation: What installation? Get it home, open the box, discover the box you lugged back in your arms contains a box with a carry handle on it, remove various bits of packaging, plug it and turn it on, job done. Well nearly, I couldn’t see any obvious way to get the MAC address of the wireless card from the setup procedure so had to set my access point to no access control.

GUIness: Still not quite used to the fact that you can shut applications down but they’re still running, so I tend to end up with far too much stuff running. I have had to Force Quit everything once so far.

Mail: nice but since I can’t unsubscribe from folders and my work exchange server has a *huge* Public folders er…folder containing vast amounts of stuff I have absolutely no interest in *and* if I set the mailbox prefix to INBOX to exclude it I lose my Sent Items folder, I’ve gone back to Thunderbird.

Safari: Can’t live without tabbed browsing so I’ve gone back to Firefox too, though tabbed browsing seems a little less useful when I have to hold the mouse button to get the context menu up, rather than the drumming my fingers on the mouse buttons I ued to do, though the touchpad scroll side to side being mapped to history back and forward is ticking me off. and I do seem to get the odd artifact on the screen

Battery Life: Well its much better that my other laptop which got about 2 hours usage before cutting out, I pulled this one out of my bag at 11am or so, brought it out of sleep and had it on reasonably constantly until I got the bus home shortly after 5pm and it claimed it could still go for another 30 minutes.

Interaction: I haven’t plugged my iPod in yet as I have a nagging suspiscion it’ll try and wipe it and I don’t want to be disappointed as interacting with other devices has been great – it found my K700i phone quickly on bluetooth, recognised my Canon digital camera when I plugged it in.

On the recomendation of one of Graeme‘s posts I’ve downloaded Adium, an IM client, which supports more protocols than iChat. I’ve also downloaded SSHKeyChain for the whole ssh-agent goodieness and then SSHTunnelManager as SSHKeyChain’s tunnelling config dialog appears to be horribly, horribly broken and StuffitExpander for expanding StuffIt files. I downloaded the GroupCal beta for syncing my work exchange calendar with iCal, which works well but to full replace Outlook I need to be able to accept meeting requests and GroupCal doesn’t seem to hook into Thunderbird.

Continued clearout of files from Service Challenge
Restarted several pools due to log files being full
Attended TOAST meeting

Adjusted hsm restore script to use all ADS servers
Began clearing ADS SC3 files
Sent out Toast agenda
Attended GridPP-Storage phone conf

Tuesday 8 November 2005

PinManager hang, restarted
Set all files in csfnfs39_1 to cached, updated CMS available space to reflect csfnfs39_1 not really accessible anymore

Restarted PinManager when I got in
Monday Morning meeting
Upped mover limits for various pools as CMS are hitting them heavily
3 or so stores to ADS had failed about ~4am, cleared them, suspect they timed out due to backups
Spent time with ST trying to work out why a user’s job was doing nothing.
Checked pool moves from 39_1 had gone successfully, appeared to so began setting files precious on destination pools
dcache head node crashed.

I’ve been bad:

Dear Mr. Derek Ross,

Thank you for your order dated 07-NOV-2005, which Apple has received at the
Apple Store.

Yay, yet another OS to patch/update/generally look after.