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Bunny Pfau wrote: > > > Anne: > > This all helps enormously. > > Since I have you here on the wire, I have one Teensy question that > will be easy for you to answer, I think, and then I'll let you go. > > In my experimental setup, I loaded several products into the > queue, upstream, on my LDM server. About an hour had passed > and I turned on my downstream server -- the products were still > in the upstream server's queue and I was expecting my downstream > client to snarf these up. I discovered, however, that the > products already in the upstream's queue were "stale" or something > and so my downstream client ignored them. > > What mechanism controls this? > > Thanks -- this is my last question and then I'll let you go! > I really appreciate your help! > > Bunny Hi Bunny, By default the LDM only requests products that are within an hour old. If over an hour had passed before starting up the downstream server, the downstream machine wouldn't get any products. This one hour limit can be changed if you want. If you'd like to know more about this let me know. Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************