Re: 19990909: pqsurf problems at Lyndon State

Mark,

I couldn't login, the connection was too slow. Will try again next week.

Robb...

On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Mark Tucker wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Robb Kambic wrote:
> 
> > Can you send me a excerpt of the log file with the most common messages or
> > give me ftp access to the file. Nobody else has reported this problem, so
> > I need to do some investigation.
> 
> Robb,
> How can I get a username and password to you?  I am not in the office
> today but I could call you with the account info for our ldm user if I had
> your number.  I'd rather not send  passwords in clear text
> e-mail.  :)
> 
> Here's the head and tail of the ldmd.log running grep against the pqsurf
> entries:
> 
> Head:
> 
> Sep 08 14:55:51 cirrus pqsurf[26101]: Starting Up (26096) 
> Sep 08 14:55:51 cirrus pqsurf[26101]: exec'ing: "pqact -v -x -d
> /usr/local/ldm -q /usr/local/ldm/data/pqsurf.pq
> /usr/local/ldm/etc/pqsurf.conf" 
> Sep 08 14:55:52 cirrus pqact[26118]: Successfully read pattern file
> "/usr/local/ldm/etc/pqsurf.conf" 
> Sep 08 14:55:52 cirrus pqsurf[26101]: lastmatch:
> e93a4797a67c34e4bc617aee7f3360bb      143 19990908141626.929 IDS|DDPLUS
> 189  SMAA17 LFPW 081200 RRH 
> Sep 08 14:55:52 cirrus pqsurf[26101]: 19990908135551.500 TS_ENDT
> {{IDS|DDS,  "^S[AIMNP]"}} 
> Sep 08 14:55:52 cirrus pqsurf[26101]: surf: End of Queue 
> Sep 08 14:55:52 cirrus pqsurf[26101]: to 19990908135537.726 
> Sep 08 14:55:52 cirrus pqsurf[26101]:  del
> e4db3966cc7a04cb3be7224848caba89       69 19990908135452.182 IDS|DDPLUS
> 470001  speci CYET 081350 
> Sep 08 14:55:52 cirrus pqsurf[26101]: max_latency 3219.237 
> Sep 08 14:55:52 cirrus pqsurf[26101]:  del
> a8cceaf5560216e550c0886c51036186       74 19990908135452.193 IDS|DDPLUS
> 472001  aaxx 83195 080800 RRB 
> 
> 
> tail:
> 
> Sep 08 17:29:06 cirrus pqsurf[26101]: SIGTERM 
> Sep 08 17:29:02 cirrus pqsurf[26101]: b1b0a127b12e4832c4ec6b7137a80a4d
> 102 19990908162348.249 IDS|DDPLUS 509  SAUS80 KWBC 081620 /pMETAR 
> Sep 08 17:29:11 cirrus pqsurf[26101]: ddd473e5c52adb418eefba903465a45c
> 72 19990908162348.249 IDS|DDPLUS 509001  metar KCLI 081620 
> Sep 08 17:29:13 cirrus pqsurf[26101]: child 26118 exited with status 0 
> Sep 08 17:29:13 cirrus pqsurf[26101]: Exiting 
> Sep 08 17:29:13 cirrus pqsurf[26101]:   Queue usage (bytes): 2581280 
> Sep 08 17:29:13 cirrus pqsurf[26101]:            (nregions):   15304 
> Sep 08 17:29:13 cirrus pqsurf[26101]: Number of products 2575 
> Sep 08 17:29:13 cirrus pqsurf[26101]: Number of observations 15505 
> Sep 08 17:29:13 cirrus pqsurf[26101]: Number of dups 1656 
> 
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > Well, my problem with pqsurf is still with me.  I'm running with Linux
> > > (kernel 2.0.36) and ldm 5.0.8 wich was downloaded & built on Aug. 27.
> > > Occasionally, and randomly pqsurf appears to consume all space cpu cycles
> > > and we stop receiving surface data (at least there is no output).  I have
> > > to stop the ldm, delete and recreate the surfqueu and restart the ldm.
> > > This will get things going again but I never know how long it will
> > > function correctly - sometimes weeks, sometimes only hours.  
> > >  
> > > I sent a message earlier this year about this problem and was given the
> > > suggestion of running pqsurf with -vx as arguments from my ldmd.conf.  I
> > > did this but when it ran there were no output files.  The log files grew
> > > enormously, as expected, but didn't indicate any problems that I could
> > > discern.  I saved a copy of the log file (7mb).  The rest of my ldm
> > > processes seem to work quite well with this one exception.  
> > > 
> > > Mark Tucker
> > > Information Technology
> > > Lyndon State College
> > > address@hidden
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ------- End of Forwarded Message
> > > 
> > 
> > ===============================================================================
> > Robb Kambic                            Unidata Program Center
> > Software Engineer III                          Univ. Corp for Atmospheric 
> > Research
> > address@hidden                 WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
> > ===============================================================================
> > 
> 
> Mark Tucker
> Information Technology
> Lyndon State College
> address@hidden
> 
> 
> 

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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/
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