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"Arthur A. Person" wrote: > > Anne, > > > I logged on this evening and started poking around and discovered the > system had gone into that disk thrashing mode we had worked on several > months ago but didn't resolve. I thought maybe this was the whole problem > altogether, so I stopped the ldm, reset motherlode as feed for WMO stuff > as well as NMC2 to test the original configuration, rebuild the queue > (this time with a 600mb queue since the thrashing problem seems to happen > with larger queues) and then restarted. It seemed faster to start with on > data delivery, but again seems to bog down. So the thrashing thing was > yet another problem but is not the cause of the current problem unless > it's somehow related in an underlying way. Interestingly, I did a little > diagnosis during the thrashing event and found that by running iostat, > most of the thrashing was on reads from the disk, something on the order > of 12,000/sec! This number seems to be in the 100-300/sec normally. > > I will try switching NMC2 to sunshine for overnight tonight and see how > things go. Since the WMO stuff seems to run slow all the time, I don't > think it will make a difference since NMC2 comes in fast but for only > certain periods of the day. > > > I've forwarded this email to Jeff Wolfe for comments. When complete, I'll > forward them to you. > > Art Art, I guess at this point then we're waiting to hear back from Jeff. Regarding a large queue, how long were you running with the 1G queue before this? And, have you ever tried or are you interested in trying to build a large queue using the large file support? I believe Daryl Herzmann at UIowa is running a 3-4Gb queue on his Redhat Linux 7.1 machine that serves as a short term archive, and has been quite pleased. Just a FYI. Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************