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>From: "Brad Schick" <address@hidden> >Organization: National Weather Service - Goodland Kansas >Keywords: 200308202105.h7KL51Ld020001 LDM Brad, >Our problem has been solved. Seems that due to bandwidth restraints, >some products that we were requesting was causing our connection to >time-out due to the amount of time it would take to receive the data, >thus eventually causing LDM to crash. From our point of view this is still a big problem that needs to be investigated. The LDM is designed to work in adverse environments the least of which is a slow connection. At worst the receiving LDM process should eventually give up and send a reclass to the upstream feed site. >After removing the product from the ldmd.conf file, its been running fine. It would really help us to know what version of the LDM you are using, what the contents of your ldmd.conf file are, what operating system you are running on, and what compilers you used to build the LDM if you built from source. Since we have not had any feedback from our university IDD users that indicates a problem like the one you are seeing, I am particularly interested in finding out exactly what is causing your problem. If you are using an older version of the LDM (e.g., LDM-5.x) I would strongly encourage you to upgrade to the latest release, LDM-6.0.14, as it is much more efficient in moving data and more robust in the face of network dropouts. Even though you did not initiate the inquiry about the problems you are having with your LDM installation, it is in our best interest to get to the bottom of your problem especially since the NWS is adopting use of the LDM for movement of NEXRAD Level II data. >A little FYI for other Weather Service that may experience the same >problem. Any of the following in you ldmd.conf file may cause this >problem. > >WMO, PPS, NEC, ANY I am not sure what NEC is, but the other feed types are standard ones used by the entirety of the Unidata IDD community to move hundreds of gigabytes of data in near real time. >Thanks for your assistance, Please help us by working with us to get to the real cause of your problem! Thanks in advance for your help... Tom