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Hi Kevin, re: > With regards to ldmadmin plotmetrics, since I'm working on a remote host > running in run level 3 (it's just a data server after all)-- can you give > me what the columns correspond to and I can try and import into a > spreadsheet and plot that way? Two things: - the ~ldm/bin/plotMetrics script lists the meaning of the fields being logged - the quickest thing might be to roll a Python script to plot the various things in the metrics log file(s) re: > We used --disable-max-size actually on a performance suggestion from you > all. Yes, on 32-bit systems only, however. re: > We were having problems with No Free Memory errors which were traced > back to the IO to our back end storage with a version of dbvs_multicast and > readnoaaport and that was a work around. We just haven't tested compiling > without that and enlarging the queue yet with the noaaportIngester. Is your system 32-bit. re: > Right now, we have no downstream requesting from this server. I could set > one up as a test though. OK, but the test would be that the downstream LDM would be doing all of the processing. This would be more like the setup in a WFO. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: KWB-851882 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed