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Hi Justin, re: to be clear: ldm2 is the system on which the fireweather products are being inserted? > Yes, ldm2 is the system with the parallel NAM fireweather grids, sorry I > didn't clarify that. Very good. I just wanted to make sure we were talking about the same things. re: errors reported by gribinsert on ldm2 > Looking closer at the errors, our process was unable to connect to ldm2 to > run gribinsert, retries appear to be successful. I wonder if the load was > just too high? Hmm... a quick look at the metrics.txt file that you made available did now show excessively high load averages -- they varied mostly between 1 and 1.8 for the period covered by the metrics file (August 2 - August 18). The failure to connect must have been caused by something else. re: parallel NAM references actually refer to fireweather products > Yes, the fireweather products are being generated within the parallel NAM. Very good. Again, I just wanted to make sure that we were/are talking about the same things. re: getting the metrics.txt file(s) > No problem, I've placed the latest metrics.txt file on our server, you can > pull it at: > > http://www.ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/data1/nccf/com/tmp/metrics.txt Got it, thanks. The plots look decent: - low load averages - age of the oldest products in the queue vary between 0.5 and 3.5 hours The 0.5 hours for the smallest age of the oldest product is a bit concerning... we like to see upstreams have a minimum of 1 hour of data at all times. - memory use is consistent and not out of line for what the machine is doing - the number of downstream connections varies between 1 and 3 Does this machine feed any machines that are involved in the "operational" CONDUIT distribution via the IDD? re: > Sounds good, I'll be sure to put an updated copy of metrics.txt on Monday and > I'll check the logs to see if we had any connection errors to ldm2. OK, thanks. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: SBB-325304 Department: Support CONDUIT Priority: Normal Status: Closed