20030512: Delayed data at U Washington

>From: Harry Edmon <address@hidden>
>Organization: University of Washington
>Keywords: 200305121626.h4CGQ07U025551 IDD

Hi Harry,

>I tried several things - I think what worked was rebooting sunny.

OK.

>And I used to have everything split - but with LDM 6 I was told not to.  Now -
>what is the REAL answer?

The real answer is _IF_ you start to see latencies build, then split the
feeds.  If you don't see latencies build, then there is no need to split
the feeds.  I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough in my previous email.

Thanks for the info on sunny...

Tom

>Unidata Support <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >From: Harry Edmon <address@hidden>
>> >Organization: University of Washington
>> >Keywords: 200305121626.h4CGQ07U025551 IDD
>> 
>> Hi Harry,
>> 
>> >sunny is has been over an hour behind on its data feed since Saturday night
> . 
>> >I am trying to figure out why.
>> 
>> We saw the latencies on sunny drop to near zero right after 18 UTC.
>> Did you find something at UW?  If so, would you share the information
>> with us?  Thanks.
>> 
>> On another note, I see that your data request from sunny to thelma is:
>> 
>> May 12 17:40:47 thelma.ucar.edu sunny(feed)[13756]: up6.c:299: Starting
>> Up(6.0.10): 20030512164338.968 TS_ENDT {{NNEXRAD|DIFAX|FNEXRAD|FSL2|WMO, 
>> ".*"}}
>> 
>> i.e., all of NNEXRAD|DIFAX|FNEXRAD|FSL2|WMO on a single rpc.ldmd
>> 
>> If you start to see latencies build, it would probably be a good idea
>> to split your data requests.  What I have in mind is something lik:
>> 
>> request      NNEXRAD           ".*" thelma.ucar.edu
>> request      DIFAX|FNEXRAD|HRS ".*" thelma.ucar.edu
>> request IDS|DDPLUS|DIFAX  ".*" thelma.ucar.edu
>> 
>> The idea here is to spit the total request into two or three separate
>> requests that partition the numbers (not volume) of product on each
>> feed more-or-less evenly.  This may not generally be necessary at UW
>> since your IDD reception is typically quite good.
>> 
>> Just a thought...
>> 
>> Tom
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