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Harry Edmon wrote: > > By the way - my pointing to the wrong host for CONDUIT has exposed a hole in > the > LDM - the same one I found on my Linux box. Basically, if you make a request > to an upstream host that times out, or is refused for any reason, the LDM > process trying to make the request sleeps for 30 seconds, and then tries > again. > In trying again, the process goes through the queue file to determine the > latest > product time to request. With a 2 GB queue file, this takes a LOT of system > resources. air has gotten bogged down a number of times this weekend trying > to > connect to thelma to get CONDUIT. A different method for determining the > latest product should be developed. > > -- > 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 Harry, Yes, we suspected just this problem, and you have verified it. I will see what I can do about getting this changed. Thanks for letting 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/ ****************************************************