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Patrick, > NCEP runs several instances of ldm-6.7.0 on AIX 5.3 on several nodes of its > supercomputer. One configuration consists of two LDMs running > on the same node under different user accounts; each LDM having different > software inserting different products into its queue. Twice now > under this configuration, once yesterday and once on April 7, we have seen > these errors: > > pqinsert ERROR: pq_del_oldest: signature > 00000000000000070000000000001000: Not Found > Error: unable to send file to local queue > > ERROR: pq_del_oldest: signature 00000000000000070000000000001000: Not Found Do these two error messages refer to two separate instances? If so, the chances of two data-products having the same signature (MD5 checksum) by random chance are one in 2^128 (i.e., not likely). Those signatures also look odd. Are you using the "-i" option of pqinsert(1)? > Both errors occurred with the same LDM on the same node. As mentioned, we > run LDM in several other places and have for quite a while > (years) and have never before seen this error. Also, as mentioned we run > another LDM concurrently on the node and it does not produce this > error. > > From reading the few very old support emails regarding this error, it seems > that it suggests a disk or memory error. Before we run this > down with IBM, is there anything new you can tell us about why this > (seemingly rare) error may have occurred twice, or what we might need to > look at besides hardware? I can't think of anything other than hardware. Our systems administrator might have some ideas. > Let me know if you need more details. > > Thanks, > Patrick > NCEP Central Operations Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: GRA-463091 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed