[Support #VXV-940104]: Re: [conduit] missing and incomplete GFS grids on CONDUIT feed

Hi,

re:
> One more question. We are writing out the FT16 feed on freshair2, and
> everyone feeds from it. 

"writing out"... do you mean processing all of the data via an
LDM pattern-action file action?  That processing should not
affect the receipt latencies for products.

re:
> Currently freshair1 is not writing the L1B files,
> and is not feeding anybody. Could this account for some of the difference?

REQUESTing the high volume SATELLITE feed could very well affect
the latencies on other feeds if there is not unlimited bandwidth.
For reference, here are the relative volumes of the feeds being
relayed by our clusters:

Data Volume Summary for uni20.unidata.ucar.edu

Maximum hourly volume 101106.477 M bytes/hour
Average hourly volume  65979.921 M bytes/hour

Average products per hour     496482 prods/hour

Feed                           Average             Maximum     Products
                     (M byte/hour)            (M byte/hour)   number/hour
SATELLITE             15302.750    [ 23.193%]    19874.859     6511.231
CONDUIT               11307.617    [ 17.138%]    33227.046   103887.962
NGRID                  9989.784    [ 15.141%]    14642.619    61919.538
NEXRAD2                8466.684    [ 12.832%]    10234.515    94048.731
NOTHER                 7276.466    [ 11.028%]    10162.294    11712.038
NIMAGE                 6724.477    [ 10.192%]     9312.298     5726.038
NEXRAD3                2622.432    [  3.975%]     3134.633   118478.385
FNMOC                  2582.920    [  3.915%]     8671.995     6087.692
HDS                    1179.896    [  1.788%]     1664.591    41480.846
GEM                     223.194    [  0.338%]     1519.538     1283.731
FNEXRAD                 112.568    [  0.171%]      130.607      100.731
UNIWISC                  99.489    [  0.151%]      141.982       49.385
IDS|DDPLUS               69.176    [  0.105%]       81.052    44723.692
EXP                      12.171    [  0.018%]       18.515      127.346
LIGHTNING                10.197    [  0.015%]       16.669      344.077
GPS                       0.100    [  0.000%]        1.092        1.000

As you can see, the SATELLITE feed is the most voluminous feed
on average currently.

re:
> I can turn off the FT16 processing for now, as we are only experimenting
> with the files currently.

I don't think that the processing will have any effect on the receipt
latencies in other feeds unless the writing of the products is causing
a large I/O problem on the (virtual) machine.  Comments in your email
directed to David O suggest that this is not the case, however.

By the way, and for what it is worth: one use was experiencing
very weird problems with very high system load and (we think)
related latencies.  We eventually figured out that the SSDs
being used for the file system that was being written to by
LDM products were "worn out", so writes were taking longer and
longer.  All of his problems went away when he switched to
writing to spinning disk (as a test) and then to new SSDs.
I just thought I'd throw that factoid in just in case it rings
any alarm bells there.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: VXV-940104
Department: Support CONDUIT
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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