This archive contains answers to questions sent to Unidata support through mid-2025. Note that the archive is no longer being updated. We provide the archive for reference; many of the answers presented here remain technically correct, even if somewhat outdated. For the most up-to-date information on the use of NSF Unidata software and data services, please consult the Software Documentation first.
Harry Edmon wrote: > > Well, I have some further information - but I don't know quite what to make of > it. I turned on verbose logging on air, and sure enough, when the connection > to > sunny times out, air receives/sends nothing for a whole minute from anyone! > Sometimes this occurs during a time out I have with dragon.geog.ubc.ca, but > not > always. I was running "top" during one outage, and the iowait time goes to > 90%, > and the top process is the one receiving from sunny. > > If I get ambious this weekend I plan to turn on verbose logging on sunny, and > I > may even run tcpdump on both systems to watch the traffic between air and > sunny. > > At this time, my candidates for the problem are: > > 1. A locking problem with the ldm. > 2. A Solaris bug. > 3. A network problem. > > I'm pretty sure it is not #3. > > -- > Dr. Harry Edmon E-MAIL: address@hidden > 206-543-0547 address@hidden > Dept of Atmospheric Sciences FAX: 206-543-0308 > University of Washington, Box 351640, Seattle, WA 98195-1640 Hi Harry, If you have a debugger on air and you have source code and you are watching when the time out occurs, you could attach the debugger to to process that is receiving from sunny and just see where the code is and what it's doing. Maybe it is indeed waiting for a lock to be released. Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************