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=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:50:29 -0600 From: Steve Chiswell <address@hidden> To: Russ Rew <address@hidden> Subject: 19991027: current data feed volumes Just an additional explanation about the CONDUIT data volume... Since the fire at NCEP, the amount data being carried by CONDUIT is less than it had been previously. In particular, NCEP is not cuurrently providing ensemble grids, nor MRF grids from day 11-17. Also, the hourly RUC2 data is being provided only on pressure levels from FSL while previously it had been provided on pressure and hybrid levels. Prior to the NCEP fire, we had been seeing 2-3 GB per day. Also there was an ldm-users exchange between Dave Knight and Bill Noon about network problems while I was away which would affect the amount of NMC2 data reaching shemp if this was during your sampling period. I do not know the time frame of the UCAR outage...maybe Robb knows. This network outage should not affect the data being received from NOAAport internally, but potentially would effect PCWS, FSL2, NLDN, MCIDAS and NMC2. Chiz On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Russ Rew wrote: > Hi, > > Just in case anyone's interested, here's some data I gathered over the > weekend from the LDM running on shemp, which is getting all the > standard data feeds plus three experimental feeds that I've also > included separately at the bottom of the table. These statistics were > digested from more voluminous raw statistics I also got on all the > product sizes, including histograms of the product size distributions > for every feed. This data is for a 24-hour period ending at 22:43Z 25 > Oct 1999, during which there were a total of 5.8 Gbytes (365500 > products) for all feed types, which works out to about 67000 > bytes/sec, 241 Mbytes/hour on average. > > Peak Mean > Mbytes/day Mbytes/hr Mbytes/hr Products Data feed > --------- --------- --------- -------- ----------- > 977 87.4 40.7 41816 CONDUIT (NCEP models) > 660 134.0 27.5 123690 NOAAPORT binary (GRIB, BUFR, ...) > 226 13.1 9.4 20410 NIDS radar > 162 8.7 6.8 221 McIDAS images > 103 13.3 4.3 125874 NOAAPORT text (DDPLUS, IDS, ...) > 45 1.9 1.9 264 FSL wind profiler > 32 1.8 1.3 144 ACARS > 39 0.004 0.002 240 NLDN lightning > > 3331 187.0 138.0 3690 NOAAPORT imagery, compressed > 229 17.0 9.6 48641 NOAAPORT NIDS, other radar > 24 20.4 1.0 507 CONDUIT supplementary grids > > --Russ >