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On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Mark Bradford wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Mike Schmidt wrote: > > > We'd like you to make a couple adjustments to your LDM configuration > > in an attempt to resolve the latency problems on torrent. In your > > ldmd.conf file, set pqexpire to run every 20 minutes instead of the > > default but defining "pqexpire -i 1200". In your ldmadmin script, > > set your product queue size for 750-800MB ($pq_size = 800000000;). > > This should reduce some thrashing related to continuous product > > expiration and region locking issues. You will have to stop the LDM, > > delete and remake the queue, and restart the LDM. > > Done. > > > Also, it would be useful for us to directly look at the status of the > > LDM on torrent by connecting to the LDM server itself. If you could > > add "allow ANY ^[a-z].*\.unidata\.ucar\.edu$" to the ldmd.conf file, > > this would be very useful. > > Done. > > > Finally, it would also be useful to have > > hourly LDM statistics from torrent so we can keep an eye on problems. > > How do I do this? (I'm feeling too lazy to grub through the docs.) Mark, In the LDM crontab file enter: 35 * * * * bin/ldmadmin dostats That's it. Robb... > > -- Mark Bradford, Systems Administrator <> address@hidden > UCAR Joint Office for Science Support <> (303) 497-8169 > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================