Thursday, 6 September 2007

Mnay problems and possible solutions

There have been many problems over the summer:
RB Tests: I still cannot submit jobs through IC or Glasgow RBs due to atlas/dteam conflicts. There have been other problems due to a build up of jobs, problems updating my (flat) database of results, an overloaded server etc.
ATLAS Tests: These died on 17 August when there was a power cut and have only recently been revieved. They are OK at the moment.
SAM Tests: There was a problem in caculating 'availability' but this only affected the history (for Tier-1?) and has been fixed.

I am rewritting some of the code and replacing my flat database with sqlite. This has been done for the RB Tests and seems to be OK. There are a few more tweaks to do then I will move the ATLAS tests to the same framework. This should make it more robust.