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Gilbert, > Found another bug. According to Tyler Allison: > > -----Begin forwarded message---- > > From: Tyler Allison <address@hidden> > To: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden> > Subject: found a bug in ldm > > This version of LDM will crash the pqact if it receives a signal 25. > signal 25 is "file to big" (eg: 2G or more) Actually, every version of the LDM will crash if a pqact(1) process receives a SIGXFSZ. > It shouldn't crash the entire LDM process in that event..it should > simply fail on the specific pqact function and move on. > > That's what happened on crunch that caused the metar outage. It tried > to write to the river.txt file which was 2G. So as soon as a river > product came in it crashed the LDM service with a signal 25 (see logs) What was the specific pqact(1) action being executed? PIPE? EXEC? FILE?... > -Tyler > > ----End forwarded message---- > > The offending log file entry...one of them: > > Jan 01 03:18:44 crunch01 pqact[19455] NOTE: Starting from insertion-time > 2011-01-01 00:10:00.351522 UTC > Jan 01 03:18:44 crunch01 10.1.1.15[19461] NOTE: Upstream LDM-6 on > 10.1.1.15 is willing to be an alternate feeder > Jan 01 03:18:44 crunch01 10.1.1.15[19458] NOTE: Upstream LDM-6 on > 10.1.1.15 is willing to be an alternate feeder > Jan 01 03:18:45 crunch01 ldmd[19453] NOTE: child 19454 terminated by > signal 25: /home/ldm/bin/pqact -f NIMAGE|WMO|LIGHTNING|EXP|FSL2 > /home/ldm/etc/pqact.conf > Jan 01 03:18:45 crunch01 ldmd[19453] NOTE: Killing (SIGTERM) process group > Jan 01 03:18:45 crunch01 pqact[19455] NOTE: Exiting > Jan 01 03:18:45 crunch01 10.1.1.15[19461] NOTE: Exiting > Jan 01 03:18:45 crunch01 10.1.1.12[19460] NOTE: Exiting > Jan 01 03:18:45 crunch01 10.1.1.15[19458] NOTE: Exiting > Jan 01 03:18:45 crunch01 10.1.1.12[19457] NOTE: Exiting > Jan 01 03:18:45 crunch01 rtstats[19456] NOTE: Exiting > Jan 01 03:18:45 crunch01 ldmd[19453] NOTE: Exiting > Jan 01 03:18:45 crunch01 ldmd[19453] NOTE: Terminating process group > Jan 01 03:22:31 crunch01 pqcheck[20624] NOTE: Starting Up (20522) > > > ---- > ******************************************************************************* > Gilbert Sebenste ******** > (My opinions only!) ****** > Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** > E-mail: address@hidden *** > web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** > ******************************************************************************* Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: YGA-963195 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed