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Dave, Either your network or your computer can't keep up with the data. I logged onto edex.esci and executed the following: [awips@edex logs]$ fgrep '[12049]' ldmd.log | head 20180208T172750.148491Z idd.meteo.psu.edu[12049] NOTE ldm_config_file.c:733:requester_exec() Starting Up(6.13.6): idd.meteo.psu.edu:388 20180208162750.148408 TS_ENDT {{NOTHER, "^TI[PRS]... KNES.*"}} 20180208T172750.148570Z idd.meteo.psu.edu[12049] NOTE ldm_config_file.c:552:getPreviousProdInfo() Previous product-information file ".fd3e80215981829af2e98521d472d7b9.info" doesn't exist 20180208T172750.293965Z idd.meteo.psu.edu[12049] NOTE requester6.c:588:req6_new() LDM-6 desired product-class: 20180208162750.293889 TS_ENDT {{NOTHER, "^TI[PRS]... KNES.*"}} 20180208T172753.460648Z idd.meteo.psu.edu[12049] NOTE requester6.c:311:make_request() Upstream LDM-6 on idd.meteo.psu.edu is willing to be a primary feeder 20180208T174605.226294Z idd.meteo.psu.edu[12049] INFO error.c:236:err_log() Ignoring too-old product: 1369967 20180208164320.065316 NOTHER 219541 TIRE02 KNES 081642 PBO 20180208T174607.250339Z idd.meteo.psu.edu[12049] INFO error.c:236:err_log() Ignoring too-old product: 1318516 20180208164320.603505 NOTHER 219542 TISI02 KNES 081642 PAB 20180208T174608.040993Z idd.meteo.psu.edu[12049] INFO error.c:236:err_log() Ignoring too-old product: 410896 20180208164320.833864 NOTHER 219543 TISI13 KNES 081642 PAA 20180208T174608.506942Z idd.meteo.psu.edu[12049] INFO error.c:236:err_log() Ignoring too-old product: 291330 20180208164321.064233 NOTHER 219544 TISI04 KNES 081642 PAA 20180208T174608.959957Z idd.meteo.psu.edu[12049] INFO error.c:236:err_log() Ignoring too-old product: 314612 20180208164321.102453 NOTHER 219545 TISI08 KNES 081642 PAA 20180208T174610.806699Z idd.meteo.psu.edu[12049] INFO error.c:236:err_log() Ignoring too-old product: 981714 20180208164321.614459 NOTHER 219546 TISI02 KNES 081642 PAD [awips@edex logs]$ This shows that, starting about 19 minutes after connecting to idd.meteo.psu.edu, products started arriving too late. Their latency increased as time went on -- leading to no products being inserted into the product-queue. I suspect something similar is happening with edex-test.esci based on its latency plot <http://rtstats.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/rtstats/iddstats_nc?NOTHER+edex-test.esci.millersville.edu>. The log-file timestamps indicate that products are arriving at an approximate rate of one per second. This is during the "catch up" phase, when the last hour's worth of products are being transmitted. At that time, products should arrive much, much faster (10's or 100's of products per second). Either your computer is trying to do too much (its 15 minute load-average is only 2, however) or the bandwidth capacity of your network is too low. I suggest using awips-test.esci to just request the NOTHER data (don't even file the products: just receive them) and see if the problem persists. If it does, then the problem is your network. Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ORN-677013 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.