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>From: Unidata User Support <address@hidden> >Organization: Unidata Program Center/UCAR >Keywords: 200308231227.h7NCR2Ld027291 IDD LDM zoneWriter FNEXRAD Guys, Saturday morning we received an email from Jim Koermer that let us know that the NEXRAD 1 km National composite base reflectivity images were not being relayed by atm: >From address@hidden Sat Aug 23 06:27:03 2003 >Hello, >I think that there is a problem with atm.geo.nsf.gov, but only for the >1KN0R-NAT data. Other composites have been updating. >Jim >-- >James P. Koermer E-Mail: address@hidden >Professor of Meteorology Office Phone: (603)535-2574 >Natural Science Department Office Fax: (603)535-2723 >Plymouth State College WWW: http://vortex.plymouth.edu/ >Plymouth, NH 03264 I verified that the 1 km national composites were not available (through ADDE) on either atm or motherlode. When I logged onto motherlode, I found that the load average was well over 90: -- snippit from ~ldm/logs/motherlode.uptime -- ... 20030823.1518 99.95 96.07 94.69 2 14 16 3933 20030823.1519 99.43 96.68 95.00 2 14 16 3988 20030823.1520 101.09 97.73 95.49 2 14 16 3996 20030823.1521 100.08 97.94 95.70 2 14 16 4023 20030823.1522 99.79 98.30 95.98 2 15 17 4045 20030823.1523 97.66 98.00 96.03 2 14 16 4016 20030823.1524 95.93 97.51 95.98 2 14 16 4020 20030823.1525 97.48 97.63 96.12 2 14 16 3979 20030823.1526 97.23 97.51 96.17 2 14 16 3990 20030823.1527 94.97 96.90 96.05 2 14 16 3377 20030823.1528 97.33 97.16 96.20 2 15 17 3442 20030823.1529 99.89 97.93 96.53 2 14 16 3498 20030823.1530 100.40 98.48 96.82 2 14 16 3560 20030823.1531 100.54 98.88 97.07 2 14 16 3617 20030823.1532 99.62 98.93 97.21 2 14 16 3680 ... The offending culprit was a hundred (estimate) invocations of ~ldm/decoders/zoneWriter. Not knowing who's decoder this is (Robb?, zoneWriter is a Perl script), I decided to send this note to a list of possible candidates. In order to get things working again, I stopped the LDM to kill all of the zoneWriter invocations and commented its execution out of the pqact.conf file. As I write this, things are slowly returning to normal, or, at least, some new composites are being sent out in the FNEXRAD feed. Tom