#4660: Rebuild wget so it doesn't refer to /home/condor

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Sun Jan 11 22:52:27 2009

roy - Ticket created

Subject:	Rebuild wget so it doesn't refer to /home/condor
Date:	Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:51:46 -0600
To:	vdt-support@OPENSCIENCEGRID.ORG
From:	Alain Roy <roy@cs.wisc.edu>

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> From: Terrence Martin <tmartin@physics.ucsd.edu>
> Date: January 7, 2009 4:43:21 PM CST
> To: Alain Roy <roy@cs.wisc.edu>
> Subject: Re: Wget broken?
>
> Your wget is hanging on
>
> close(3) = 0
> stat("/home/condor/execute/dir_30107/userdir/wget/etc/wgetrc",
>
> If I use my wget I do not have this problem. Here is the test wget.
>
> wget http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/1.10.1/defs -O /dev/null
>
>
>
> Alain Roy wrote:

>> Hi Terrence,
>>
>> Your VDT system profile didn't help. Darn.
>>
>> I tried to figure out what was interestingly different in the VDT's
>> wget from RedHat's wget. We have a slightly newer version (1.11
>> instead of 1.10.2), and they patch wget heavily. I didn't find any
>> patches that were clearly about performance, so I'm still left
>> unsure about what is going on. We compile with almost the same
>> options, except that RedHat enables LFS--I don't think that should
>> affect performance, but maybe it does.
>>
>> So for now, I'm stumped. Unfortunately, tomorrow I'm traveling, so
>> I can't look at it more for a couple of days.
>>
>> -alain
>>
>> On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Terrence Martin wrote:

>>> Here you go. This is not the first time I noticed this slow down
>>> of wget. We actually thought it was a network issue at first a few
>>> weeks back.
>>>
>>> Alain Roy wrote:

>>>> On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Terrence Martin wrote:

>>>>>> Did you install the VDT with -pretend-platform?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -alain
>>>>>>

>>>>> Not in a very long time.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Pacman version: 3.25
>>>>> Python version: 2.4.3 (#1, May 24 2008, 13:57:05)
>>>>> Your platform [CentOS-5] satisfies { *, CentOS, CentOS-5, CERN-
>>>>> SL, Fermi-SL, Fermi-SL-5, IFIC-SLC-5, Linux, linux, linux-
>>>>> rhel-5, linux-rocks-5.0, linux-rocks-5.1, linux-rocks-5.2, linux-
>>>>> rocks-5.3, linux-rocks-5.4, linux-rocks-5.5, linux-sl-5.0, linux-
>>>>> sl-5.1, linux-sl-5.2, linux-sl-5.3, linux-sl-5.4, linux-sl-5.5,
>>>>> linux-sl-5.6, linux-sl-5.7, linux-sl-cern-5.0, linux-sl-
>>>>> cern-5.1, linux-sl-cern-5.2, linux-sl-cern-5.3, linux-sl-
>>>>> cern-5.4, linux-sl-cern-5.5, linux-sl-cern-5.6, linux-sl-
>>>>> cern-5.7, linux-sl-fermi-5.0, linux-sl-fermi-5.1, linux-sl-
>>>>> fermi-5.2, linux-sl-fermi-5.3, linux-sl-fermi-5.4, linux-sl-
>>>>> fermi-5.5, linux-sl-fermi-5.6, linux-sl-fermi-5.7, linux-sl-
>>>>> ific-5.0, linux-sl-ific-5.1, linux-sl-ific-5.2, linux-sl-
>>>>> ific-5.3, linux-sl-ific-5.4, linux-sl-ific-5.5, linux-sl-
>>>>> ific-5.6, linux-sl-ific-5.7, RHEL, RHEL-5, Rocks, Rocks-5, SL,
>>>>> SL-5, SLC, SLC-5, unix, Unix }
>>>>>
>>>>> What is particularly irritating is that the OSG wget kinda
>>>>> works, just really really slow. This seems to affect the initial
>>>>> install as well.

>>>>
>>>> That is really strange. I don't yet have an explanation for it.
>>>>
>>>> One possibility is that we should stop distributing wget in the
>>>> OSG software stack. In the past, we added it because it didn't
>>>> uniformly exist on all worker nodes.
>>>>
>>>> I would really like to understand why it's failing. I don't know
>>>> where to start, but I can look at your system profile. Can you
>>>> run the vdt-system-profiler and send me the resulting vdt-
>>>> profile.txt file? Just send it to me instead of the whole list,
>>>> because it's a big file.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> -alain
>>>>

>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Terrence Martin
>>> System Manager
>>> UCSD CMS T2 Center
>>> tmartin@physics.ucsd.edu
>>> Cell: 619 957 5550
>>> Work: 858 822 0361
>>>
>>>
>>> <vdt-profile.txt.gz>

>>
>>

>
>
> --
>
>
> Terrence Martin
> System Manager
> UCSD CMS T2 Center
> tmartin@physics.ucsd.edu
> Cell: 619 957 5550
> Work: 858 822 0361
>
>

#	Mon Jan 12 15:20:36 2009	roy - Priority changed from (no value) to '2'

#	Mon Jan 12 15:20:37 2009	roy - Fix scheduled CUR added

#	Tue Jan 13 10:14:58 2009	roy - Queue changed from vdt-support to vdt-internal

#	Mon Mar 09 10:18:04 2009	cat - Taken

#	Mon Mar 09 10:18:06 2009	cat - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

#	Mon Mar 09 14:29:32 2009	cat - Priority changed from '2' to '-2'