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On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, C. Vandersip wrote: > Robb, > > After 14 hours it's happened again. This time, I've wiped out and > recreated both queues and have increased the pqsurf.pq size to 20MB to see > if it helps anything. Here's the contents of pqsurf.conf in case you > might notice a way to tighten/clean it up. I pulled this directly from > Peter Neilley's weather README file with changes to data dir path only. > > WMO ^metar (....) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9] > DBFILE > /export/data/weather/METAR_GDB/(\2:yyyy)(\2:mm)\2\3.METAR_GDB \1 > WMO ^speci (....) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) > DBFILE /export/data/weather/METAR_GDB/(\2:yyyy)(\2:mm)\2\3.METAR_GDB > \1 Chris, The patterns look ok to me. You might want to change the (....) to a more restrictive pattern, ie just stations you want to look at. Also, I don't think it's the queues causing the problems. Maybe if you remake the gdbm lib it might work better, here's instructions: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/ldm/3185 Lyndon state also had problems with pqsurf: Maybe Mark would have some better insights here. http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/ldm/3201 and 3202. Robb... > > Chris > > ############################################################### > # Chris Vandersip # > # Computer Research Specialist/Dept. Sysadmin # > # Rm. 024, Dept. of Meteorology, Florida State University # > # address@hidden (850)644-2522 # > ############################################################### > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================