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Patrick,
The fields collected by the "ldmadmin addmetrics" command are documented in the 
ldmadmin(1) manual page ("man ldmadmin -- assuming your MANPATH environment 
variable references "~ldm/share/man").
The fields with the "-1" values are "used_mem", "free_mem", "used_swap", and 
"free_swap". These are important and should be collected. ldmadmin(1) obtains 
them by executing the top(1) utility -- as specified in the LDM registry 
(execute the command "regutil | grep top" to see it). Is that not working?
> Fyi.. last night I set the ingestor to restart each hour as a last ditch to 
> keep it functioning for a few weeks... so far it is treading water.. but 
> notice the metrics output
> 
> http://modelweather.com/files/patrick/unidata/metrics.txt
> 
> it shows the product queue as empty?
> 
> It has been moved out of the ramdisk as mentioned
> 
> ldm@crad1:~/data/queue$ ls -la
> total 7830140
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ldm ldm       4096 Aug  6 19:50 .
> drwxr-xr-x 6 ldm ldm       4096 Aug  6 17:36 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ldm 8018051072 Aug  6 19:50 ldm.pq
> 
> It's still functioning so I'm not going to touch anything, but thought I 
> should show you :/
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --patrick
Regards,
Steve Emmerson
Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: FNS-542635
Department: Support LDM
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed