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Andrew, Assuming your decoders and tables are executable and readable, respectively, these errors probably mean that the decoder process is timing out after not receiving any data for some time, while the pqact PIPE action stays open, meaning when the pattern actions sends the next file for decoding, the decoder has exited. Try adding a large timeout value to the decoder entries in your pqact files for each which experiences this problem: dcmetr -t 7200 ... Hopefully this works for you. If not let me know. Michael James Unidata > We are seeing GEMPAK 5.10.4 decoder errors on one of our LDM boxes. > > Below, is a snippet from an `ldmadmin tail`. > > uvldm2 ldm/logs> ldmadmin tail > > Aug 15 16:17:33 uvldm2 pqact[23738] WARN: write(110,,4096) to decoder > timed-out (60 s): > decoders/dcmetr-v2-a500-m24-ssfmetar_sa.tbl-d/data/gempak/logs/dcmetr.lo > g-eGEMTBL=/usr/nawips/GEMPAK5.10.4/gempak/tables/data/gempak/surface/YYY > YMMDD_sao.gem > > Aug 15 16:17:33 uvldm2 pqact[23738] ERROR: pipe_put: > decoders/dcmetr-v2-a500-m24-ssfmetar_sa.tbl-d/data/gempak/logs/dcmetr.lo > g-eGEMTBL=/usr/nawips/GEMPAK5.10.4/gempak/tables/data/gempak/surface/YYY > YMMDD_sao.gem write error > > What would be causing the above pipe_put issue for the decoder? > > uvldm2 ldm/logs> pqmon > > Aug 15 16:20:56 pqmon NOTE: Starting Up (27686) > > Aug 15 16:20:56 pqmon NOTE: nprods nfree nempty nbytes > maxprods maxfree minempty maxext age > > Aug 15 16:20:56 pqmon NOTE: 101534 1 875027 3999777528 > 194538 10 782023 224520 1732 > > Aug 15 16:20:56 pqmon NOTE: Exiting > > I am not sure if this is needed, but I've included some info from > ldmadmin-pl.conf > > $pq_size = "4G"; > > $pq_slots = "default"; > > This server is a SLES 9.3 i586(32-bit) running LDM 6.6.5 and GEMPAK > 5.10.4 decoders. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Andrew Little > Weather Systems Analyst > Universal Weather & Aviation > 8787 Tallyho Road > Houston, Texas 77061 > (713) 947-5633 > (713) 504-2719 > > address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden> > > Success from the word GO. > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: QQI-319604 Department: Support GEMPAK Priority: Normal Status: Open