PROOF

• New functionality
  • Dataset management
    • New class TProofDataSetManager definining the interface of PROOF to dataset metainfo database
    • New class TProofDataSetManagerFile implementating TProofDataSetManager using the file system as back-end;  the separation is needed to load dataset menagers using different backends; for example ATLAS foresees to have a MySQL-based implementation.
    • The instance of the appropriate TProofDataSetManager is instantiated via the plugin manager; by default an instance of TProofDataSetManagerFile managing the <sandbox>/datasets area is created. The directive 'Proof.DataSetManager' can be used to modify the settings for TProofDataSetManagerFile or to load a different dataset manager; for example, to '/pool/datasets' as area for the dataset information, the following directive can be added to the xrootd config file

      xpd.putrc Proof.DataSetManager file dir:/pool/datasets

  • Interface to TProofMgr::GetSessionLogs() in the dialog box. The graphics layout of the logbox has been re-designed, with new buttons to grep the logs and to save them to a file. It is also possible to choose the range of lines to be displayed and the subset of nodes.
  • Support for connection control base on the UNIX group (new directive 'xpd.allowedgroups <grp1>,<grp2>, ...')
• Improvements:
  • In the case of mismatch between the expected and actual number of processed events, send back to the client the list of failed packets.
  • Implement the classic strategy of the TPacketizer in TPacketizerAdaptive; the strategy can be changed from adaptive (default) to TPacketizer with: "PROOF_PacketizerStrategy" parameter to PROOF
  • The max workers per node can now be also set in the xrootd config file with
           xpd.putrc  Packetizer.MaxWorkersPerNode: <desired number>
  • Make fCacheDir and fPackageDir controllable via directive
• Fixes
  • Two memory leaks in TProofServ affecting repeated runs withing the same session
  • Fix a problem cleaning-up the input list on the workers
  • The type of "PROOF_MaxSlavesPerNode",  "PROOF_ForceLocal" and  "PROOF_PacketAsAFraction" parameters has been changed from Long_t to Int_t. 
  • TProofCondor plug-in:
    • Adapt the signatures of the main constructors of TProofCondor and TProofPEAC (and of the related plug-in handlers) to the one of TProof.
    • Add the possibility to trigger the load of a generic TProof-derived plug-in via a directive the xrootd config file 'xpd.proofplugin', e.g. 'xpd.proofplugin condor:'