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Hi all, Well, that was an interesting weekend.. Thanks to a suggestion by Russ Rew, I was able to get the ldm back up and running on sunset, and everyone who switched to profhorn or another alternate server can now switch back to sunset.meteor.wisc.edu. I'll leave everyone in the allow on profhorn in case of future failure, but it looks like the bandwidth is pretty taxed into/out of that machine with the high bandwidth NMC2 feed as well, so please switch back to sunset as soon as practical. Here's the solution in case anyone is interested, or runs into the same problems.. Apparently the default method of determining how many product slots to create in a queue based on its size doesn't always work under irix 6.5, or at least my particular setup of it. Turns out that the default of pqcreate -c -q /usr3/ldm/data/ldm.pq -v -s 650000000 which would be executed with an 'ldmadmin mkqueue' for my 650 Mb queue size, where 158691 products slots are made) will dump core and fail, but pqcreate -c -q /usr3/ldm/data/ldm.pq -v -s 650000000 -S 158689 works ok. Dunno the exact cause of this, but the ldm has been up and running for about 1/2 hour on sunset, fingers crossed. Now that I think of it, I *did* change the queue size from 600 Mb to 650 after a few recent crashes, which I had attributed to an increase in data volume. It was after that increase that the pqcreate started core dumping.. I must have just gotten lucky on my queue sizes prior to that I guess, cause it had been running for a few weeks before with no problems. Anyways.. back to normal I hope. Pete -- +>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>+<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<+ ^ Pete Pokrandt V 1447 AOSS Bldg 1225 W Dayton St^ ^ Systems Programmer V Madison, WI 53706 ^ ^ V address@hidden ^ ^ Dept of Atmos & Oceanic Sciences V (608) 262-3086 (Phone/voicemail) ^ ^ University of Wisconsin-Madison V 262-0166 (Fax) ^ +<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<+>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>+