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Harry Edmon wrote: > > The network interface messages are caused by my turning on promiscous mode and > running tcpdump. The the FIFO underflow occurs when the machine first boots > up, > but never after the first couple of hours. > > -- > 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, A few thoughts: The ldm processes on air and sunny are currently in verbose mode. If you can spare the space you could put them in debug mode. (You could keep fewer logs. In scanning the logs I see about 12 of these events occuring within the past 24 hours. So, I would think you could capture a few of these events within a relatively short period of time.) Debug mode tracks every ldm packet. This will show us if the relay is interrupted on product boundaries or within a product. If the interruption always occurs on product boundaries, then I would still consider the possibility of an ldm locking error. If the interruptions occur within product transmissions, then I would think it's not a locking error as I don't think the ldm would relinquish a lock before it's done reading or writing. Although an assumption... I would try to confirm that if further information deemed it necessary. And, my question is, why is camano.atmos.washington.edu writing to air's logs? I'm not a system administrator, but I don't see how that can happen. I was also wondering about a possible deadlock situation between air and camano, but I guess that wouldn't happen since air is requesting EXP from camano and camano is requesting NEXRD2 from air. Is there any way any of air's downstream sites could be waiting on products that air is waiting on from that site?? On air, I wrote a python script to scan the logs for gaps in the entries' timestamps. (It's in ~ldm/anne.) There's a file there called timestampGaps that records the lines around a 30 second gap. Nothing jumps out at me, except that some gaps result in lots of disconnects while others don't. Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************