Re: status of the Richmond cluster

[gilfoyle <ggilfoyl@mindspring.com>]

hi steven,

   thanks for your help. i'll check this out in the next day or two.

jerry

steven james wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I believe I have all of the library issues dealt with.
> 
> I noticed a possably confusing behaviour that might have been the root of
> some of this.
> 
> Perl depends on several libraries in /lib to run. Unlike those in
> /usr/lib, they were being managed by caching rather than just being
> available from NFS. It can take about a minute for the libs to be fetched
> from the master. During that time, the app will appear hung, but will
> eventually start.
> 
> I have pre-cached the files onto the node's local drive to try to avoid
> that delay.
> 
> Since the libs are cached, once that startup penelty is paid, it doesn't
> happen again for those libs on that node until reboot.
> 
> You can see this happen using tcpdump (I have a binary of it in my home
> directory). The libs are transferred as a stream of multicast packets.
> 
> Please let me know if this gets it going. If problems remain, a good
> approach might be for me to make a copy of your test data and try the runs
> myself until the expected results come up.
> 
> G'day,
> sjames
> 
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, gilfoyle wrote:
> 
> > hi steven,
> >
> >    i'm checking in (when there is no beam) to find out the
> > status of the cluster. have the library issues been resolved?
> > if so, what was the solution? i'm itching to let this thing
> > get cooking.
> >
> > jerry
> >
> >
> 
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