Re: 20000322: LDM at CCNY

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Unidata Support wrote:

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> >From: "Ka Kit Lai" <address@hidden>
> >Subject: LDM
> >Organization: CCNY
> >Keywords: 200003231535.IAA01727 LDM ldmadmin stop top CPU
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> Robb:
>    This is Ka Kit from CCNY. I am now trying to free up some resources in 
> halo because it is running sluggishly after we have the LDM server up and 
> load up some X-windows using Exceed from PC. What I try was to stop the LDM 
> server because Prof. Hindman class and see if that help improve the 
> performance on halo. I also use the command "top" to see the different 
> between the LDM server running and after the LDM server being stopped. I 
> still saw the dchrly and dmgrid.k running after I stop the LDM server and it 
> took up quite an amount of CPU%. I was wonder is that the LDM daemon? If so, 

Ka Kit,

These are decoders that will expire after 10 minutes or so.  You could
also do a kill to get rid of them sooner. The decoder wait 10 minutes or
until data arrives, this is done because starting up decoders is resource
expensive.

Robb...



> how come it is still running even I have the LDM server stopped. How can I 
> free up some resources if I just want to temperory turn off the LDM server, 
> should I kill those "ldm" process from the top?
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>                                       Ka Kit Lai
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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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