As mentioned last week, cap on CMS running cores was removed. In the last few days CMS has taken over the farm! However, in the last day or more the farm utilisation is less than 100%...so I guess this is exactly how it should work. Other VOs should send us more work! It looks like ATLAS has pending jobs but their running cores is still low.

With respect to the number of jobs running...performance is very bad (failures and efficiency). Some issues (failures) may be coming from the CMS side. However, the LHCOPN 100G link is currently saturated and I think this is the problem with the efficiency. 

New SAM tests for webdav protocol on Antares, following the introduction of the Tape REST API were failing. For some reason the webdav test suite is different to the root test suite, which of course has been green for some time. The new list of tests included a PROPFIND test on the /store/ directory - this was the failing one. George added the DN to give permissions to read and the test is green since Saturday. 

We are also following up the load tests which have been failing for tape for many months - probably since they started.

A couple of issues with Echo storage relating to new version of XRootD - Jyothish rolled back and did some other fixes. See also Alex's issues this week.

Katy created docs for installation and usage of Shoveler. It's been running in test for 2 years! Am hoping that Jyothish(?) will find time to bring this into production soon. Katy is planning to validate the numbers for CMS and in collaboration with other VOs write a CHEP paper on this. 

(CHEP abstract deadline is this Friday! ...but will be extended by one week.)