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Andy, > We have been using the -close option. But, when many products arrive in a > short period, we get hundreds of copies of our decoder attempting to run, > and simply run out of resources. So, I was thinking we could write a > decoder to handle PIPE contents serially, and spawn a (limited) number of > threads to process products. One of the trade-off costs of Python is that it's slower than, for example, C. > I also considered using the -metadata option, and looking for a particular > sequence in the metadata, but I'm not able to understand/decode the binary > parts of the metadata. I wouldn't bother with the "-metadata" option. As far as I know, every data-product contains a means to distinguish how long it is. For example, WMO textual bulletins always start with SOH, CR, CR, LF and GRIB messages contain the length of the product in their header. If you write your decoder so that it understands the format of the data-product, then the decoder will be able to determine product boundaries. Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: KJU-295092 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.