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Sue, Sorry for taking so long to respond. I'm attending a conference this week and this is the first chance I've had to attend to this. > How can the LDM still be dropping new products when pqmon suggests that > the oldest products in the queue are hours old? We were dropping > products when max product age was 2hours. we are still dropping products > when max product age is 20+ hours. > > After expanding queue size (left the slots to default) and now we have: > Jun 18 17:03:47 pqmon NOTE: 21141 0 711280 3000000512 > 21964 2 710457 0 102251 > > This queue dropped products at 7Z today. > > Here is a snapshot of the ldm that feeds this (after also expanding > queue size): > > Jun 18 17:05:18 pqmon NOTE: 8139 1 968422 3984953920 > 9959 3 966603 15048128 59413 It's only a snapshot, but it appears that your queues a large enough. A time-series would be better, however. Can you use the "ldmadmin addmetrics" and "ldmadmin plotmetrics" commands to generate a time-series? > Clearly the LDM config is not optimized on either host for our average > product size and data flow at this point, but I would think it would be > impossible to have lack of space or slots, or abundance of slots be the > cause of the dropped data. > > We have had essentially the same LDM configuration for several years and > have not dropped any data. After upgrading to 6.10.1 and Linux squeeze > this became an issue. I am thinking to revert back to 6.8.1 which we had > previous to 6.10.1 Unfortunately, I don't have enough data to form an hypothesis. Would it be possible to log onto the system is question as the LDM user in order to investigate? > Thanks for your insight. > Sue > > Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: OFP-197738 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed