Re: 20040920: Possible pqact issue in LDM?

Steve Emmerson wrote:

> Steven,
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> > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:12:36 -0500
> > From: "Steven Danz" <address@hidden>
> > Organization: Aviation Weather Center
> > To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: 20040920: Possible pqact issue in LDM?
> > Keywords: 200409091803.i89I3pnJ023109
> >    
>
> The above message contained the following:
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> > The Nagios notification stuff doesn't flag an error until 10 minutes
> > have passed, so I would guess it should have run by then.  By the time
> > I notice the problem, get on line and grab the queue its usually 15
> > minutes or so.  That, and when I dump the queue, notices before and
> > after the missing one are listed.
> >
> > (Is there a signal for pqact to re-open the log file?  I'd like to set
> > it up with -v for a long period into a file, but I don't want to fill
> > the disk... thought maybe there was a signal to close/reopen the log
> > file)
> >    
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> The command "ldmadmin newlog" can be used at any time to start a new
> logfile and remove logfiles that are too old (see "ldmadmin config").
>
> Sending a SIGUSR2 to the pqact(1) process will cause it to rotate
> through the logging levels in the order (NOTICE -> INFO -> DEBUG ->
> NOTICE ...).
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>  
True, but that is for the rpc.ldmd log, I'm looking to rotate the pqact 
log.... doesn't look like
that is part of the pqact right now.

> > Yes and yes.  I grabbed a copy of the queue on one of the periods when
> > this happened over the weekend, and if I ran pqact -o <big_number> it
> > picked up everything from the first pass and everything that it missed
> > as well.
> >    
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> So, pqact(1) doesn't miss data-products if run manually on a saved
> product-queue but does in the context of a executing LDM system.  Is
> this true?
>
>  
This is true.

> > Well, that pqcat you listed includes the product, which is GRIB, but
> > just looking at the product ID strings they are just ASCII < 127 here.
> > That and of course the fact that the second pass works fine.
> >    
>
> Regards,
> Steve Emmerson
>
>  

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