3.8.2.8

[PalNilsson]

• Alternative stage-out
  • Additional stage-out attempt for failed transfers (data and log files) to different storage if configured in astorages
  • Being discussed in JIRA ticket ATLASPANDA-994 “Failover stage-out to write_lan/1 RSE”
  • Pull request #142
• Improved IPv6 address extraction
  • Problem with pattern recognition seen with Alma9 at Wuppertal
  • Reported by T. Harenberg
• Replaced remaining ps command usage with a call to the more efficient psutil python module
  • A problem during high CPU load was seen on an ARM resource (with 256 cores) due to too many concurrent ps processes (KIT)
  • Reported by M. Schnepf
• Now possible to set real-time logging server via PQ.catchall
  • Requested by I. Vukotic
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed typo in infosys initialization (harmless)
    • Pull request #143
  • Improved exception handling during randomization of panda server address
    • Added socket.gaierror, “Name or service not known”
    • Could otherwise lead to lost heartbeat, although problem only seen in jobs that had already failed with sending job updates to server

Contributions from A. Anisenkov, P. Nilsson