[AWIPS #PKL-603844]: AWIPS2 Sever Overload

> Good morning Michael,
> 
> Thanks for having a look at this.
> 
> It is very odd there are so many of the old files. It appears you left them
> intact? Should the me removed?
> 
> I logged in this morning and there are currently 43 of the repack processes
> running an the load average is still absurdly high: ~54 . I also looked at
> all of the h5repack processes all but three of those processes appear to be
> processing this file:
> 
> awips    26506 14.4  0.0  24568  9680 ?        R    08:56  14:08 h5repack
> -f LZF /awips2/edex/data/hdf5/goessounding/go
> essounding-2016-06-02-10.h5
> /awips2/edex/data/hdf5/goessounding/goessounding-2016-06-02-10.h5.repacked
> 
> I/m wondering if it  is it OK to delete that file?
> 
> While I was composing this message the thee process not processing the
> above file finished. So the only h5repack processes are for the above file.

Yep, these can and should be removed, any HDF5 files older than a week (or so) 
can be deleted, especially the very old files which were somehow missed by data 
purging. 





Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: PKL-603844
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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