[Condor-users] read error

[Masao Fujinaga <fujinaga@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am trying to set up a small linux lab to use as condor execution nodes. I can run very small jobs that produce no more than about 10kb of output but anything bigger just seems to hang. In the scheduler log, there is a message of the type,

condor_read(): timeout reading 5 bytes from ...

It would appear that the problem is linked to some networking configuration as I can set up condor on another linux box outside the linux lab and it works fine. The network administrator says the following about the linux lab:

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The lab uses big frames for NFS performance, this means

that when a lab machine goes to do a large write to you, it

will send back a potentially 6000 byte or so packet. This isn't

a problem, because the router in front of the lab will

then fragment that packet down to a normal mtu.

I've certainly seen issues with client server software

that doesn't check correctly for a short read in these situations,

as part of the data can be delivered up to a socket before you

get the whole thing.

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Could this fragmentation of the packets cause problems for condor?

Masao

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