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Steve, > I'm in need of a little LDM enlightenment and hope you can provide it! I'll try. > We've recently installed the latest ldm 6.12.6 with the noaaport option. > > We've got a 2GB queue and have started ldmd with -m 3600 -o 3600 command > line options. Our pqmon stats currently look like this (sorry for the > wrapping): > > Sep 26 19:53:38 pqmon NOTE: nprods nfree nempty nbytes maxprods > maxfree minempty maxext age > Sep 26 19:53:43 pqmon NOTE: 39016 3 0 1176418736 39018 > 8 0 803106848 873 > > I'm confused. We're allowing up to 3600 secs of products, but the oldest > product is only 873 secs. Not quite. The "-m 3600" option specifies that the maximum allowable latency is one hour (products created earlier than this will not be put in the product-queue). The "-o 3600" option specifies that REQUEST entries in the LDM configuration-file will use a time-offset of one hour (i.e., they'll request data starting at one hour old). > Our queue is 2 GB, but only 1176418736 bytes > is being used? Correct. Your queue only has slots available for 39019 data-products. Thus, your queue is slot-limited rather than space-limited. > So, we have approximately .8 GB not being used, but we're > nowhere near the 3600 sec oldest product? Can you explain what I'm > seeing here? Any enlightenment you can give would be greatly > appreciated! > > On a somewhat related subject, our LDM is on a 32 bit operating system > currently. It's on-the-list to upgrade to a 64 bit OS. Is it a "bad > thing" to have a queue larger than 2 GB on a 32 bit OS? And what is the > recommended queue size for a NOAAPort based machine getting all 5 > channels? I'm not an expert on the hardware specifications. I'll see about getting one to answer this question. > Steve > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Stephen D. Adams > Vice President - Research and Development > AWIS Weather Services, Inc. > 1735 East University Drive, Suite 101 > Auburn, AL 36830-5204 > > Website: http://www.awis.com > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AWISWeatherServices > email: address@hidden > Phone: (334) xxx-xxx ext xxxx > Toll-free: (888) xxx-xxx ext xxxx > Toll-free Fax: (888) xxx-xxxx > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: XKS-398652 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed