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>From: Joe Van Andel <address@hidden> >Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research >Keywords: 200305081646.h48Gk37U015345 LDM IDD reconnect Hi Joe, >we restarted our server - did it stop querying every 30 seconds? We saw the 30 second reconnects stop at 23:27 UTC last night. Is this when the LDM was restarted? Along the same lines, I just wanted to let you know of the availability of our latest LDM implementation, LDM-6.0.10, which is much more efficient in moving data than LDM-5.x. I am eager to see if LDM-6 would go a long way toward addressing some issues you brought up with the LDM last year: >Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:49:24 -0700 >From: Joe Van Andel <address@hidden> >To: address@hidden >cc: address@hidden, Russ Rew <address@hidden> >Subject: LDM performance vs scp? > > This morning, I was benchmarking file transfers using LDM vs copying the > same file with 'scp'. On the two files I checked, (1237KB and > 2446KB),LDM took 3 times as long to send the file compared to scp. > > Since I'm already short of bandwidth on my T-1 line, I'm quite concerned >that I can not afford to use LDM. > >Has anyone else benchmarked LDM to determine how fast it copies files, >vs alternatives (ftp, http, scp)? > >Any advice on how to improve LDM performance? > >-- >Joe VanAndel >National Center for Atmospheric Research >http://www.atd.ucar.edu/~vanandel/ >Internet: address@hidden While the LDM-6 does not do on-the-fly-compression of products like scp, it does use the available network resources a lot more efficiently than LDM-5. Constrained tests in long haul movement of data from UCAR to Belem, Brazil demonstrated that LDM-6 was capable of moving over 8 times more data than LDM-5. Admittedly, a large portion of the success of this test was due to the long haul nature of the test itself, but US sites that have upgraded to LDM-6 have commented to us that they have seen a dramatic improvement in data reception (as measured by decreased product latencies) after upgrading. So, if you are game to upgrade to LDM-6, I would be happy to help. In addition, LDM-6 contains a routine that reports back real time statistics on data reception that we need in order to monitor the performance of the IDD. We are asking sites to upgrade to LDM-6 in order to provide us with this information. Cheers, Tom -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ * Tom Yoksas UCAR Unidata Program * * (303) 497-8642 (last resort) P.O. Box 3000 * * address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 * * Unidata WWW Service http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/* +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+