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> 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 =================== Ticket ID: PKL-603844 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.