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Commit 38815a1d authored 16 years ago by Fons Rademakers
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 <h3>PROOF</h3>
+
 <ul>
-  <li>A few fixes to run the TProofCondor plug-in:
+
+  <li>New functionality</li>
+
  <ul>
-    <li>Adapt the signatures of the main constructors of TProofCondor 
-and TProofPEAC
-(and of the related plug-in handlers) to the one of TProof.</li>
-    <li>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:'</li>
-  </ul></li>
-  <li>Packetizer parameters
+
+    <li>Dataset management</li>
+
+    <ul>
+
+      <li>New class TProofDataSetManager definining the interface
+of PROOF to dataset metainfo database</li>
+
+      <li>New class TProofDataSetManagerFile implementating
+TProofDataSetManager using the file system as back-end; &nbsp;the
+separation is needed to load dataset menagers using different backends;
+for example ATLAS foresees to have a MySQL-based implementation.</li>
+
+      <li>The instance of the appropriate TProofDataSetManager is
+instantiated via the plugin manager; by default an instance
+of&nbsp;TProofDataSetManagerFile
+managing the <span style="font-style: italic;">&lt;sandbox</span>&gt;/datasets
+area is created. The directive 'Proof.DataSetManager' can be used to
+modify the settings for&nbsp;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
+        <p>xpd.putrc Proof.DataSetManager file dir:/pool/datasets</p>
+
+      </li>
+
+    </ul>
+
+    <li> 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.
+    </li>
+
+    <li>Support for connection control base on the UNIX group
+(new directive 'xpd.allowedgroups
+&lt;grp1&gt;,&lt;grp2&gt;, ...')</li>
+
+  </ul>
+
+  <li>Improvements:</li>
+
+  <ul>
+
+    <li>In the case of mismatch between the expected and actual
+number of processed events, send back to the client the list of failed
+packets.</li>
+
+    <li>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</li>
+
+    <li>The max workers per node can now be also set in the
+xrootd config file with<br clear="all">
+
+&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;xpd.putrc&nbsp;
+Packetizer.MaxWorkersPerNode: &lt;desired number&gt;</li>
+
+    <li>
+Make fCacheDir and fPackageDir controllable via directive
+    </li>
+
+
+  </ul>
+
+  <li>Fixes</li>
+
  <ul>
+
+    <li>Two memory leaks in TProofServ affecting repeated runs
+withing the same session</li>
+
+    <li>
+Fix a problem cleaning-up the input list on the workers
+    </li>
+
    <li>The type of "PROOF_MaxSlavesPerNode",
 &nbsp;"PROOF_ForceLocal" and
-&nbsp;"PROOF_PacketAsAFraction" parameters has been changed from Long_t to Int_t.&nbsp;</li>
-    <li>The max workers per node can now be also set in the xrootd config file with<br clear="all">
-&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;xpd.putrc&nbsp; Packetizer.MaxWorkersPerNode: &lt;desired number&gt;</li>
-  </ul></li>
+&nbsp;"PROOF_PacketAsAFraction" parameters has been changed from
+Long_t to Int_t.&nbsp;</li>
+
+    <li>TProofCondor plug-in:
+      <ul>
+
+        <li>Adapt the signatures of the main constructors of
+TProofCondor and TProofPEAC
+(and of the related plug-in handlers) to the one of TProof.</li>
+
+        <li>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:'</li>
+
+      </ul>
+
+    </li>
+
+  </ul>
+
+
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