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Hi Hsie re: what is the size of your LDM queue > rainbow:[42]% ldmadmin config > > hostname: rainbow.al.noaa.gov > os: Linux > release: 2.6.18-410.el5 > ldmhome: /home/ldm > LDM version: 6.13.0 > PATH: > /home/ldm/ldm-6.13.0/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/pgi/linux86-64/8.0-3/bin:/opt/intel/fce/10.1.008/bin:/opt/sun/sunstudio12/bin:/usr/local/ncarg/bin:/home/ldm/bin:/home/ldm/decoders/bin:/home/ldm/util:/home/mcidas/linux/bin:/home/mcidas/util:. > LDM conf file: /home/ldm/etc/ldmd.conf > pqact(1) conf file: /home/ldm/etc/pqact.conf > scour(1) conf file: /home/ldm/etc/scour.conf > product queue: /home/ldm/queues/ldm.pq > queue size: 4G bytes > queue slots: default > reconciliation mode: increase queue > pqsurf(1) path: /home/ldm/queues/pqsurf.pq > pqsurf(1) size: 2M > IP address: 140.172.240.190 > port: 388 > PID file: /home/ldm/ldmd.pid > Lock file: /home/ldm/.ldmadmin.lck > maximum clients: 256 > maximum latency: 3600 > time offset: 3600 > log file: /home/ldm/logs/ldmd.log > numlogs: 7 > log_rotate: 1 > netstat: netstat -A inet -t -n > top: /usr/bin/top -b -n 1 > metrics file: /home/ldm/logs/metrics.txt > metrics files: /home/ldm/logs/metrics.txt* > num_metrics: 4 > check time: 1 > delete info files: 0 > ntpdate(1): /usr/sbin/ntpdate > ntpdate(1) timeout: 20 > time servers: cirrus.al.noaa.gov tick.boulder.noaa.gov > tock.boulder.noaa.gov ntp.ucsd.edu ntp1.cs.wisc.edu ntppub.tamu.edu > otc1.psu.edu timeserver.unidata.ucar.edu > time-offset limit: 10 OK, your LDM queue is 4 GB in size. At peak times, rainbow is receiving over 38 GB of data from all feeds: Data Volume Summary for rainbow.al.noaa.gov Maximum hourly volume 38478.037 M bytes/hour Average hourly volume 17131.927 M bytes/hour Average products per hour 307307 prods/hour Feed Average Maximum Products (M byte/hour) (M byte/hour) number/hour CONDUIT 7909.353 [ 46.167%] 23417.657 91054.277 NGRID 6002.365 [ 35.036%] 11090.312 37421.340 NEXRAD3 2475.231 [ 14.448%] 3269.320 113673.830 HDS 285.235 [ 1.665%] 589.473 19145.447 NIMAGE 217.073 [ 1.267%] 363.443 208.872 FNEXRAD 114.977 [ 0.671%] 139.929 105.915 IDS|DDPLUS 65.866 [ 0.384%] 80.986 45648.191 UNIWISC 61.828 [ 0.361%] 118.010 49.383 The peak time volume is heavily dominated by CONDUIT data. So, at peak reception times, the products being received have to be processed out of the LDM queue within about 6 minutes. Given this, I recommend that you increase your LDM queue size to at last 8 GB or more if you have enough RAM installed on rainbow. After you increase your queue size, we need to see if you are correctly processing all of the CONDUIT data. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: GLG-935498 Department: Support IDD Priority: Normal Status: Closed =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.