perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Buraglio, Nicholas D" <>]

This was apparently user error on my part.  My throughput test was configured 
to use nuttcp and was failing as indicated in /var/log/messages.  Once I 
changed it to iperf my problems went away.  

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Nick Buraglio   
Network Engineer
University of Illinois CITES / ICCN
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Phone: 217.689.4254


On Feb 28, 2011, at 4:58 PM, Buraglio, Nicholas D wrote:

> I have a perfSonar node that had been working from the liveCD for weeks, 
> doing a bit of everything for a while, but primarily as a throughput node.  
> It recently had a 10G interface installed (eth2) and was migrated to that 
> as it's only live interface.  About a week ago, we noticed that the 
> throughput testing had stopped and that the box wouldn't restart the 
> throughput services (bwctl and  perfSONAR-BUOY for throughput).  I didn't 
> see anything regarding those processes in the logs and thought that maybe 
> it was an artifact of a lot of us in the box tweaking it and it having had 
> pretty much everything turned on; it was our first test deployment so it 
> got a lot of attention and a lot of changes were made.  
> I took this as an opportunity to install to disk and rebuild it.  Even 
> after a fresh install I can't seem to get it back to it's state of 
> throughput testing.   perfSONAR-BUOY fails to start pretty reliably.  
> Basically I'm looking for some insight into where to look for the problem 
> as far as logs or the like, or if I've just become a victim of user error.  
> The host in question is perfsonar.ix.ui-iccn.org and it's got a pretty 
> vanilla install of 3.2 with only one throughput test set up.  
> Any insight is appreciated.  Thanks!
> 
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> Nick Buraglio   
> Network Engineer
> University of Illinois CITES / ICCN
> GPG key 0x2E5B44F4
> Phone: 217.689.4254
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