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Hi Mike, re: > As you noticed, something really bad happened...started Friday and > continued into the weekend. And, it is apparently continuing. The latency+volume plots for feeds being REQUESTed by vulcan are now exhibiting what a "classic" signature for packet shaping - data in low volume feeds gets delivered with acceptable (but not great in vulcan's case) latencies while high volume feeds latencies climb to values that exceed the maximum latency parameter that is set in the LDM registry. re: > Ironically this issue was much worse than what > prompted me to investigate in the first place. I think that there was one thing going on when you first contacted us, and that was a result of the LDM queue being much too small for the feeds being REQUESTed, and now you are facing a different problem altogether. re: > I was turning feeds on and > off though too, so volumes can be a bit misleading. OK, but the comparison in latencies seen in the CONDUIT feed (which I presume is still a 5-way split) and those for the very low volume IDS|DDPLUS feed (a feed which also has very small products) is what we have come to know as a classic signature for artificial bandwidth limiting or packet shaping. re: > These stats are updating each minute. Vulcan metrics only started this > morning. Charney on Friday 11/01. > http://www.met.sjsu.edu/weather/images/vulcan/ > http://www.met.sjsu.edu/weather/images/charney/ The load average plot makes me ask what else is running on vulcan? And, why wasn't the same thing(s) running between 2 and 14 UTC? Speaking of load average, it is interesting that the amount of data in the queue went up to near maximum overnight. re: > We'll see how things look moving forward. They don't look good this morning... 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: AFT-567406 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.